Climate Change & Social Justice: 2024 Annual Library Lecture Series
Lawson Room - Central Library 251 Dundas Street - London Public Library Wolf Performance Hall, London, Ontario, CanadaEVENT DESCRIPTION Each year, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy organizes a public lecture series co-sponsored with the London Public Library and the Department of Philosophy. The theme for this year's lecture series is Climate Change & Social Justice. Please join us in welcoming Professor Anna Zalik (York University), Professor Bipasha Baruah (Western University), Professor [...]
RECAP: AI for Health and Social Justice
Goodwill Industries 255 Horton St E, London, ON, CanadaRECAP-Event-Rotman Story Research Engagement Collaborative Alliance with Partners (RECAP) and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy are co-hosting an event on AI for health and social justice, bringing together Western researchers and diverse individual and organization experts from across a variety of communities, industries, governments and not-for-profits to share perspectives, find common ground, build connections, and explore [...]
Duncanson Lecture: Come with Me Inside a Black Hole
Zoom webinar or Conron Hall, University College, Western University Western University - 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, CanadaThe Faculty of Arts & Humanities is honoured to host Carlo Rovelli for the 2025 Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture, held on January 30, 2025. This hybrid event can be attended in person at Conron Hall or online via Zoom. Each registrant will receive the Zoom link as part of the registration email. REGISTER HERE! In "Come with Me [...]
Rotman Visiting Speaker: Chris Letheby
Room 3000 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western University, London, Ontario, Canada"Merely Believing and Really Believing: Mental Imagery in Personal Transformation" Talk Description: As a teacher of mine once remarked, when we say that teenagers think they are immortal, we don’t mean that they would fail a biology test. Teenagers believe, truly and justifiably, that they will die, but there is also a sense [...]
Generative Artificial Intelligence & Historiography
Room 3000 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western University, London, Ontario, CanadaEVENT DESCRIPTION BIO: William J. Turkel is Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario and internationally recognized for his innovative work in digital history. He uses machine learning, text mining, and computational techniques in his study of the histories of science, technology and environment, drawing on many decades of programming experience. He [...]
Nerenberg Lecture Series: Francesca Vidotto
Conron Hall, Unversity College, Western University Western University - 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, CanadaThe lecture is open to all members of the public and it is free. To guarantee a place, please register for the 2025 Nerenberg Lecture HERE.
Workshop: Cognition in Social Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Perth Dr., London, Ontario, CanadaZOOM LINK Workshop Registration Registration is now CLOSED. Thank you for your interest. See below for updated workshop program. In recent decades, many new research fields have emerged at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences, such as cognitive sociology (e.g., Zerubavel, 1997), cognitive [...]
Research Retreat: Election Interference and Security In A Contested Infosphere
Weldon Library Community Room Western University - 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, CanadaJoin the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, the Electro-Governance Group (EGG), the Department of Political Science and the Starling Center for Just Technologies for a research retreat bringing together scholars from across disciplines and departments at Western to share research and perspectives on the political and security challenges to democracies arising from technological and political-economic [...]
Research Retreat: Human-AI Relationships
Room 3000 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western University, London, Ontario, CanadaJoin The Rotman Institute of Philosophy for a Research Retreat on Human-AI Relationships. Who: Western University research community When: Thursday, May 08, 2025 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Where: WIRB 3000, Western University The Rotman Institute of Philosophy is excited to host a one-day research retreat on the topic of Human-AI Relationships. Our goal is to bring [...]
2025 Annual Philosophy of Physics Conferences
Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Perth Dr., London, Ontario, CanadaEmpiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics REGISTRATION LINK ZOOM LINK May 25-26 The structure of theories and how they represent the natural world, through introducing basic principles and asserting the existence of unobserved entities, have been central questions in philosophy of science over the last century. Bill Demopoulos, George Smith, [...]