This bi-monthly post begins with exciting news from a couple of our members. First off, we are excited to announce that Jess Du Toit received a Varnier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2020-2023. The Vanier Scholarship recognizes students with outstanding academic achievement, research potential and leadership. In addition to this award, a few of our faculty members [...]
Rebecca Livernois joined the Rotman Institute as a postdoctoral fellow in the fall of 2019. In her work she highlights the conceptual and methodological shortcomings of mainstream environmental economics and carries this over to an examination of economic policies that are intended to address environmental problems. Eric Desjardins conducted this virtual interview with her to [...]
Late March brought the closure of campus, but despite challenges for all of us due to COVID-19 we still have exciting member news to share. Craig Fox recently accepted a two-year postdoc at the Edelstein Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine in Jerusalem. He will be working on a research project [...]
Although it's the shortest month of the year, February did not fall short of exciting news from our members! Our first exciting announcement comes from Rotman alumna Melissa Jacquart. Melissa received news this month that starting in the fall of 2020 she will be a tenure-track assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of Cincinnati. [...]
We'd like to begin this bi-monthly post with some exciting job news from Rotman alumnus Jamie Shaw. Jamie received a SSHRC postdoc at the University of Toronto. His research will focus on philosophy of science and science policy. Congratulations, Jamie! The past couple months included opportunities for us to get together with our colleagues from WIRB at [...]
In 2019, seven of our graduate student members (four resident and three non-resident members) successfully defended their doctoral theses. Please join us in congratulating each of them on this accomplishment! EUNICE CHAN Algebraic Companions and Linearizations MARIE GUEGUEN On Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Surplus Structure [...]
We'd like to begin this post by congratulating Adam Woodcox who successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled "Modes of Argumentation in Aristotle's Natural Science", on November 19 (supervised by Devin Henry). Well done, Adam! Please also join us in congratulating Andrew Chater who just started a new postdoc at Trent University as part of the North American and Arctic Defence and [...]
We'd like to begin this post by congratulating several of recent graduates who took part in fall convocation this past month: Eunice Chan, Marie Gueguen, Adam Koberinski, and Chang Liu. We'd also like to recognize Jaclyn Lanthier (supervised by Jacqueline Sullivan) who successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "Understanding Interdisciplinary Corroboration: Lessons from a Review Paper in the Mind-Brain Sciences", on [...]
This September, several new members joined us at the Institute. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the following people--we're thrilled to have you all with us! New Associate Faculty Members (profiles coming soon!): Pauline Barmby (Department of Physics & Astronomy), Carolyn McLeod (Department of Philosophy) & Jacob Shelley (Faculty of Law and [...]
Two of our graduate students successfully defended their theses this August. Please join us in congratulating Adam Koberinski (supervised by Wayne Myrvold) whose thesis, “Theory construction in high-energy particle physics”, was defended on August 1. Eunice Chan (supervised by Robert Corless) defended her thesis, "Algebraic Companions and Linearizations", on August 23. Well done, Adam & [...]
