Summer 2025 Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Accelerator Fund (GIRAF) Recipients

The Rotman Institute is a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary training at the intersection of the sciences and humanities. In the summer of 2025, the Institute proudly launched a new funding initiative: the Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Accelerator Fund (GIRAF). Graduate students were invited to apply for positions on these research teams, with individual awards [...]

2025-10-06T12:50:07-04:00October 6th, 2025|Members, Projects, Rotman News, Science and Society|

Summer 2023 Graduate Research Projects

The Rotman Institute is the home for interdisciplinary training the sciences and humanities. In the summer of 2023, 13 of our graduate student members were awarded funding to support their wide ranging research projects from Artificial Intelligence to Quantum Spacetime; from Children's Medical Decision-Making to the Study of Psychedelic Experiences. View the summaries below [...]

2025-10-06T12:57:13-04:00October 27th, 2023|Members, Projects, Rotman News, Science and Society|

Rotman 2025 Think Tank Award Recipients

Spring 2025 marks a new chapter for the Rotman Institute of Philosophy as we continue to champion bold, interdisciplinary research through the Rotman Interdisciplinary Think Tank Award Program. Now in its second year, the program invites core and associate faculty to propose visionary projects that address complex research challenges aligned with the Institute’s evolving [...]

2025-10-06T11:35:00-04:00October 6th, 2025|Members, Projects, Rotman News, Science and Society|

Rotman 2024 Think Tank Award Recipients

This Spring 2024, the  Rotman Institute of Philosophy was proud to launch the Rotman Interdisciplinary Think Tank Award Program, inviting core and associate faculty members to submit bold, interdisciplinary proposals that tackle grand research challenges aligned with the Institute’s strategic priorities. This new program builds on the success of previous initiatives by supporting collaborative [...]

2025-10-06T11:34:39-04:00October 6th, 2024|Members, Projects, Rotman News, Science and Society|

Rotman 2022 Catalyst Grant Recipients

Last fall, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy invited members to submit innovative and early-stage research projects to the 2022 Rotman Catalyst Grants Program Competition.   The program promises to award up to $50,000 with a maximum of up to $20,000 per grant for a funding period of 2 years. These grants are offered once [...]

2023-02-24T09:16:09-05:00February 15th, 2023|Members, Projects, Rotman News, Science and Society|

The Intersection of Particle Physics and Cosmology: Interview with Adam Koberinski

Adam Koberinski has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the New Directions in Philosophy of Cosmology research project, under Chris Smeenk, for the past year. His research focuses on the intersection of particle physics and cosmology. Laura Cardozo conducted this virtual interview with Adam to learn more about his research and what sparked his interest [...]

Revisiting the Bugs-as-Drugs Perspective in the Light of the Ecological Turn in Microbiome Research

Each year the Rotman Institute supports a number of research projects by funding graduate research assistantships (GRAs). In addition to providing financial assistance, Rotman GRAs offer our graduate students a unique training opportunity and valuable experience working collaboratively with a faculty mentor. Over the next few weeks we’ll be highlighting the current projects underway this summer. Featured [...]

2021-12-20T15:07:06-05:00June 18th, 2020|Graduate Students, Philosophy of Biology, Projects|

2019 Essay Prize in Philosophy of Cosmology

The purpose of this competition is to promote new work in the emerging interdisciplinary field of philosophy of cosmology, in particular by encouraging scholars at all career stages to consider the central questions in this area. We solicit papers on any topic concerning the philosophy of cosmology. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested [...]

How can there be “emotions” without “emotion”?

Rotman faculty member Louis Charland published a blog post yesterday entitled, "Emotions without Emotion: A Challenge for the Neurophilosophy and Neuroscience of Emotion". It was featured on The Neuroethics Blog, hosted by the Center for Ethics, Neuroethics Program at Emory University. In the post, Charland examines the distinction between the terms emotion and cognition, and [...]

2017-01-03T12:08:10-05:00February 3rd, 2016|Lab Associates, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Projects|
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