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SUMMARY:Peter Singer: Animal Liberation\, Forty Years On
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nPeter Singer’s Animal Liberation\, often credited with starting the modern animal rights movement\, was first published in September 1975. In this lecture\, the author assesses how well the argument has stood up over that period\, and what progress has been made towards the changes in our treatment of animals that the book advocates.\n \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nPhoto by Tony Phillips – ICEL 2014 \nPeter Singer is an Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. From 2005 on\, he has also held the part-time position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne\, first in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics\, and then in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.  \nPeter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include: Democracy and Disobedience; Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; Marx; Hegel; Animal Factories (with Jim Mason); The Reproduction Revolution (with Deane Wells)\, Should the Baby Live? (with Helga Kuhse)\, How Are We to Live?\, Rethinking Life and Death\, Ethics into Action\, A Darwinian Left\, One World\, Pushing Time Away\, The President of Good and Evil\, How Ethical is Australia? (with Tom Gregg)\, The Way We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Life You Can Save.  He also co-authored The Greens with Bob Brown\, founder of the Australian Greens. Books he has edited or co-edited include Test-Tube Babies; In Defence of Animals; Applied Ethics; Animal Rights and Human Obligations; Embryo Experimentation; A Companion to Ethics; The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity\, Ethics\, A Companion to Bioethics\, Bioethics: An Anthology\, The Moral of the Story\, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave and Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues.  His works have appeared in more than 20 languages.  He is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica.  Two collections of his writings have been published: Writings on an Ethical Life\, which he edited\, and Unsanctifying Human Life\, edited by Helga Kuhse.  There are also two collections of critical essays about his work\, which include his responses: Singer and His Critics\, edited by Dale Jamieson\, and Peter Singer Under Fire\, edited by Jeffrey Schaler. The latter includes a 75 page “Intellectual Autobiography.” \nPeter Singer was the founding President of the International Association of Bioethics\, and with Helga Kuhse\, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics.  Outside academic life\, is the co-founder\, and President\, of The Great Ape Project\, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees\, gorillas and orangutans. He is also President of Animal Rights International. \nRead more about Peter Singer.\n \nEVENT POSTER\n\n\nDownload a copy of the event poster.\n \nEVENT VIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/peter-singer-animal-liberation-forty-years/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Public Events,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150917T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150917T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T134427
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SUMMARY:Peter Singer: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nEffective altruism is built upon the simple but profound idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the “most good you can do.” Such a life requires an unsentimental view of charitable giving: to be a worthy recipient of our support\, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us.  In this talk\, Singer will introduce us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas\, and show how effective altruism challenges common views about the choice between different good causes. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nPhoto by Tony Phillips – ICEL 2014 \nPeter Singer is an Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. From 2005 on\, he has also held the part-time position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne\, first in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics\, and then in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. \nPeter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include: Democracy and Disobedience; Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; Marx; Hegel; Animal Factories (with Jim Mason); The Reproduction Revolution (with Deane Wells)\, Should the Baby Live? (with Helga Kuhse)\, How Are We to Live?\, Rethinking Life and Death\, Ethics into Action\, A Darwinian Left\, One World\, Pushing Time Away\, The President of Good and Evil\, How Ethical is Australia? (with Tom Gregg)\, The Way We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Life You Can Save. He also co-authored The Greens with Bob Brown\, founder of the Australian Greens. Books he has edited or co-edited include Test-Tube Babies; In Defence of Animals; Applied Ethics; Animal Rights and Human Obligations; Embryo Experimentation; A Companion to Ethics; The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity\, Ethics\, A Companion to Bioethics\, Bioethics: An Anthology\, The Moral of the Story\, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave and Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues. His works have appeared in more than 20 languages. He is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica. Two collections of his writings have been published: Writings on an Ethical Life\, which he edited\, and Unsanctifying Human Life\, edited by Helga Kuhse. There are also two collections of critical essays about his work\, which include his responses: Singer and His Critics\, edited by Dale Jamieson\, and Peter Singer Under Fire\, edited by Jeffrey Schaler. The latter includes a 75 page “Intellectual Autobiography.” \nPeter Singer was the founding President of the International Association of Bioethics\, and with Helga Kuhse\, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Outside academic life\, he is the co-founder\, and President\, of The Great Ape Project\, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees\, gorillas and orangutans. He is also President of Animal Rights International. \nRead more about Peter Singer. \nEVENT POSTER\n\n\nDownload a copy of the event poster.\n \nEVENT VIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/peter-singer-good-can-effective-altruism-changing-ideas-living-ethically/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Public Events,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150306T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150306T120000
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SUMMARY:Elisabeth Lloyd: The Orgasm Wars
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThere has been a fierce battle occurring among people who explain the evolution of human female orgasm\, about its evolutionary origins and nature. The core issue is that the female orgasm presents an evolutionary puzzle. Unlike the male orgasm\, female orgasm is not associated with any increase in fertility or reproductive success. Several types of theories have been offered for the evolution of the trait\, but I shall show that only one of them has very much evidence supporting it\, while the others are flawed by conflicts with the evidence. Oddly\, these conflicts went unnoticed for many years by the scientists themselves\, through the operation of both sex bias and a bias of preferring adaptive explanations over other types of evolutionary explanations. I shall review the familiar theory that orgasm evolved to support the bond between the man and the woman\, as well as the theory that the sperm is sucked into the womb during orgasm with a high-quality male. The best-supported theory is the account stating that female orgasm is a bonus of direct selection on the male orgasm\, and is not a direct adaptation in the female that we can detect. I shall discuss the biases that led the biologists and the rest of the public astray\, that is\, that led to the widely-held but seemingly premature dismissal of the bonus account\, and the wide-spread acceptance of the unsupported accounts. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nElisabeth Lloyd received her B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1980\, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984\, where she worked with Bas van Fraassen. She has received numerous awards and grants\, including several from the National Science Foundation. Her research interests are primarily in the philosophy of biology\, general philosophy of science\, the role of models in science\, and gender issues in science. She has recently taught courses in these areas as well as a graduate seminar on the American pragmatists\, and one of the philosophy surveys in our department. Her publications include The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory (Greenwood Press\, 1988; Princeton University Press\, 1994) and “Feyerabend\, Mill\, and Pluralism” (Philosophy of Science\, 1997). \nProfessor Lloyd holds the Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science. She is also Professor of Biology\, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy\, Affiliated Faculty Scholar at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex\, Gender and Reproduction\, and Adjunct Faculty at the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. \nRead more about Elizabeth Lloyd. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/elisabeth-lloyd-orgasm-wars/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Biology,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures
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SUMMARY:Robert DiSalle: Gravity\, Geometry\, and Philosophy: 100 Years in Einstein’s Universe
DESCRIPTION:One hundred years ago\, in November 1915\, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation: the General Theory of Relativity. In developing the General Theory\, Einstein brought together ideas from philosophy\, mathematics\, and physics\, to create a remarkable new conception of gravity\, space\, and time. His work is a model of the engagement between philosophy and science that is the main mission of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. To celebrate the achievements of the 20th century’s greatest philosopher-scientist\, the Rotman Institute is pleased to announce Einstein@Rotman 2015 – a year-long program of activities for both scholars and the general public\, centred around the stunning successes and enduring mysteries of Einstein’s ideas. \nABSTRACT\n\nIn this inaugural lecture\, you will learn how Einstein’s philosophical reflections on space\, time\, and gravity transformed our view of the nature and structure of the cosmos. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n \nRobert DiSalle is a professor of philosophy at Western University\, and the author of “Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein” (Cambridge University Press). \nRead more about Robert Disalle. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/robert-disalle-gravity-geometry-philosophy-100-years-einsteins-universe/
LOCATION:Wolf Performance Hall – Central Library\, 251 Dundas St\, London\, Ontario\, N6A 6H9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Einstein at Rotman,History of Philosophy of Science,Philosophy of Physics,Public Events,Public Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20131004T150000
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SUMMARY:Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: Using History and Philosophy of Science to Understand the Climate Change Debate
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nOn vital issues such as genetically-modified foods and climate change\, having correct scientific knowledge is vital for making good public policy. How does philosophy help us understand science? How strong is the scientific consensus about climate change\, and the effects our species has on it? Naomi Oreskes\, co-author of the award-winning book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming\, has studied the climate change debate as a historian and philosopher\, and will explore the above questions\, and more. Oreskes courageous work to expose deliberate attempts to sow confusion and doubt about important issues\, such as climate change\, is not based in rhetoric\, as it is with some of the ‘merchants of doubt’ she writes about\, but on looking at science using philosophical techniques. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nNaomi Oreskes is an American historian of science\, and Professor at Harvard University (where she moved in Summer 2013 from the University of California\, San Diego). She has worked on studies of geophysics\, environmental issues such as global warming\, and the history of science. In 2010\, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt\, which identified parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies. \nRead more about Naomi Oreskes. \nThe evening will be moderated by Paul Kennedy\, host of Ideas on CBC Radio One. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/naomi-oreskes-merchants-doubt-using-history-philosophy-science-understand-climate-change-debate/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ecological Philosophy,Public Events,Public Lectures,Rotman Lectures
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