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SUMMARY:Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science\, After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThe 1960s saw many revolutions\, worldwide\, and some of that epoch’s revolutionary spirit manifested itself in philosophy of science\, with strong reactions against the dominant ‘received view’ of Logical Positivism. Scientific realism emerged to dispute ontology\, Kuhn single-handedly turned our eyes back to history of science\, and the semantic approach replaced the methodological framework for philosophers of science. The Logical Positivist revolution had just about reached age 50 at the time; today the semantic approach is about 50 years old as well. I will discuss its development\, fortunes and misfortunes\, suggest that a new\, third revolution is due\, and invite speculation about what it might be. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nBastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University\, teaching courses in the philosophy of science\, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. He previously taught at Yale University\, the University of Southern California (USC)\, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He coined the term “constructive empiricism” in his 1980 book The Scientific Image\, in which he argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities. \nRead more about Bas van Fraassen. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/bas-van-fraassen-semantic-approach-science-50-years/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140403T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140403T143000
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SUMMARY:Bas van Fraassen: The Self\, From a Logical Point of View
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nOur sense of self is readily extrapolated to engender paradoxes\, but that sense is not easily dismissed even when the logical aporiai are exposed. \nWhat Kant called the illusions of reason beckon here\, but their false promises may be shown up if we subject the possibility of ‘objective’ scientific accounts of ourselves to a deeper logical scrutiny. Can we avoid the logical difficulties by trying instead to ‘naturalize’ and understand ourselves in the same way as we understand natural systems? There too logical paradoxes may return\, and I will discuss the implications of Thomason’s paradox for the language of belief. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nBastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University\, teaching courses in the philosophy of science\, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. He previously taught at Yale University\, the University of Southern California (USC)\, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He coined the term “constructive empiricism” in his 1980 book The Scientific Image\, in which he argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities. \nRead more about Bas van Fraassen. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/bas-van-fraassen-self-logical-point-view/
LOCATION:Great Hall – Somerville House\, Somerville House\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140321T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140321T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T173248Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kimmelman: Anatomy of Clinical Translation: Ethics\, Epistemology\, and Policy
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThe clinical translation process is widely viewed as plagued by inefficiency\, error\, and delay. However\, such views- and the research reforms aimed at correcting these deficiencies- draw on a problematic understanding of the nature of clinical translation (the “pipeline model”). In what follows\, I use the recently translated cancer drug sunitinib to illustrate an alternative model for clinical translation (the “dynamic learning model”). This model is marked by three central features. First\, clinical translation is less about developing drugs than it is about developing intervention ensembles- that is\, packages of materials\, practices\, and knowledge needed to effectuate the clinical utility of new drugs. Second\, clinical translation is marked by clinical research activities that have two distinct epistemic goals: discovery vs. confirmation. Third\, a key task of clinical translation is the refinement of theories that drive clinical decision-making at the bedside. I close by unfolding some of the implications of this model for debates in research ethics\, medical practice\, and drug regulation. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nJohnathan Kimmelman is Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit / Social Studies of Medicine. He has cross appointments in Experimental Medicine\, Epidemiology\, Biostatistics and Occupational Health\, and Human Genetics. Kimmelman holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University\, and joined McGill in 2005. His research revolves around the ethical\, social and policy dimensions of translational research. \nRead more about Jonathan Kimmelman.\n \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/jonathan-kimmelman-anatomy-clinical-translation-ethics-epistemology-policy/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Ethics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140312T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
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SUMMARY:Howard Eichenbaum: The Hippocampus in Space and Time
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn humans\, hippocampal function is generally recognized as supporting episodic memory\, which is characterized by the organization of experience over time\, whereas in rats\, many believe that the hippocampus creates maps of the environment and supports spatial navigation. How do we reconcile the episodic memory and spatial mapping views of hippocampal function? Here I will discuss evidence that\, during learning of what happens where\, hippocampal place cells map the locations of events in their spatial context. In addition\, I will describe recent findings that\, during learning of what happens when map specific events within their temporal context. These findings support an emerging view that the hippocampus supports episodic memory by creating a “scaffolding” for the organization of events within their spatial and temporal context. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nHoward Eichenbaum is a University Professor at Boston University\, where he is also the Director of the Center for Memory and Brain\, Director of the Center for Neuroscience\, and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Eichenbaum received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan and also pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at M.I.T. \nRead more about Howard Eichenbaum. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/howard-eichenbaum-hippocampus-space-time/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kutach: Empirical Fundamentalism
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThe program is built on two main ideas. First\, metaphysics should be understood primarily in term of a certain concept of fundamental reality. The fundamental/derivative distinction is meant to replace a variety of competitors such as the reality/appearance distinction\, the objective/subjective distinction\, the scientific and manifest image\, the realism/anti-realism distinction\, and the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. Second\, a concept should analyzed in terms of experiments that reveal why the concept is valuable. I will illustrate how Empirical Fundamentalism resolves problems in the metaphysics of causation. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nDouglas Kutach is a 2014 Visiting Fellow of Western University. He is the founder of Empirical Fundamentalism\, a philosophical program that exploits a distinctive conception of fundamentality and the method of empirical analysis in order to pronounce on a range of traditional philosophical problems. His recent book (August 2013) Causation and Its Basis in Fundamental Physics applies this program to causation. His articles within this program also address modality\, natural kinds\, reductive identities\, the passage of time\, and the epistemic “arrow of time”.Read more about Kutach here. \nRead more about Douglas Kutach.
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/douglas-kutach-empirical-fundamentalism/
LOCATION:Room 1145 – Stevenson Hall\, Stevenson Hall\, Room 1145\, London\, Ontario\, N6G 2V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140124T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140124T120000
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CREATED:20170819T174015Z
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SUMMARY:Stathis Psillos: Revisiting the ‘Bankruptcy of Science’ Debate
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThe ‘bankruptcy of science’ controversy took place in France towards the end of the nineteenth century. It was a heated debate among scientists\, philosophers\, literary critics\, novelists and various public figures that was widely advertised in the press and caught the attention of the wider public on both sides of the Atlantic. It initially concerned the scope and limits of the scientific worldview and the relation between science and religion\, but in later stages (especially when Henri Poincare got involved in it) it was focused on the very idea of objectivity of science and scientific progress. At the same time\, another debate concerning the alleged ‘bankruptcy of atomism’ was taking place among scientists in Europe\, targeting atomism as a scientific worldview as well as a theory about the structure of matter. Various important arguments for and against a realist conception of science were launched in the context of these inter-connected debates (such as the so-called ‘pessimistic induction’) and versions of structural realism were advanced in response to them. Significantly\, the history of science and various forms of invariance were appealed to by participants in order to defend a realist conception of science. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nStathis Psillos received his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 1994 from King’s College London. Between 1993 and 1998 he was initially assistant editor and subsequently deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Between 1995 and 1998\, he was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow\, at the Dept of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, London School of Economics. Since 1998\, he has been a Research Associate of the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences\, London School of Economics. He joined the Dept of Philosophy and History of Science in the University of Athens\, Greece\, in 1999. He was among the founders of European Philosophy of Science Association and served as its first elected President (2007-2009). He is currently the editor of the journal Metascience.  \nRead more about Stathis Psillos. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/stathis-psillos-revisiting-bankruptcy-science-debate/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science,Stathis Psillos
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20131108T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20131108T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T174456Z
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SUMMARY:Michaela Massimi: Perspectival Realism
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn her talk\, Massimi will review the problems and prospects of scientific perspectivism. Scientific perspectivism has been advocated as a philosophical view that can account for the use of incompatible models in science\, and as a middle ground between scientific realism and relativism. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nMichela Massimi is a senior lecturer in Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She works primarily on philosophy of science\, Kant\, and the intersection between contemporary philosophical problems and historical and contemporary scientific practice.  \nRead more about Michela Massimi. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/michaela-massimi-perspectival-realism/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131007
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T174817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210714T150323Z
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SUMMARY:Rotman 2013 Annual Conference: Science and Reality
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION\n\nScience has changed the ways we think of\, and act on\, the world. But do we really understand the relation between scientific theories and the world? Are there different perspectives on the world? How can it be that science\, a characteristically human and social endeavour\, yields successful predictions and fruitful explanations? What is the role of mathematics in shaping the structure of explanation in science? How do the various theories and disciplines hang together in crafting the scientific image of the world? Is this image a product of synthesis or rivalry between theories? Can we be\, or indeed ought we be\, confident about the scientific image of the world? Can the history of science teach us how to do better science and how to limit or enhance the cognitive aspirations of modern science? What is the role of chance in science? How does probability enter the scientific image? What does science tell us about the natural laws and causation\, which David Hume called\, ‘the cement of the universe’? \nThese are distinctively philosophical questions at the core of general philosophy of science as well as the philosophies of the various sciences. They have been pursued by philosophers and philosophically-minded scientists\, highlighting the engagement of science with philosophy and of philosophy with science. Stathis Psillos\, in his work on scientific realism and the metaphysics of science\, and Carl Hoefer\, in his research on the structure of spacetime and objective chance in science\, have addressed these questions and have demonstrated that philosophy of science can aim to offer enlightening and exciting answers to them both at the general level of science as a cognitive enterprise and the particular level of concrete scientific theories. \nDownload conference poster. \nSCHEDULE\n\nThis conference\, an event welcoming Carl Hoefer and Stathis Psillos to Western and the Rotman Institute\, brings together an exceptional international panel of leading philosophers of science whose work has set the standards in many debates to discuss the relation(s) between science and reality and to advance\, with fresh ideas\, arguments and approaches\, our thinking about the connections between scientific theories and reality. \nRichard Boyd (Cornell University) – More Correspondence\, Not Less; and Causation Too \nCraig Callender (University of California\, San Diego) – LOST IN SPACE: Is the Quantum State It or Bit? \nWilliam L. Harper (Western University – Emeritus) – Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method \nJenann Ismael (University of Arizona) – Against Ontic Chances: Three Cheers for the Third Way on Objective Probabilities \nElaine Landry (University of California\, Davis) – Structural Realism and Category Mistakes \nMarc Lange (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill) – Aspects of Mathematical Explanation \nMargaret Morrison (University of Toronto) – Why Perspectivism is Philosophically Idle \nElliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Parsimony and Chimpanzee Mind-Reading \nJohn Worrall (London School of Economics) – Real (“Ramsey –Sentence”) Structural Realism: Why Psillos is Wrong \nVIDEO PLAYLIST
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/rotman-annual-conference-2013-science-reality/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Annual Rotman Conferences,Conference,Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20131004T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20131004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T175113Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130913T143000
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SUMMARY:William Bechtel: Investigating Neural Representations: The Tale of Place Cells
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nWhile neuroscientists often characterize brain activity as representational\, many philosophers have construed this as just a theorist’s gloss on the mechanism. Moreover\, philosophical discussions commonly treat neuroscience accounts as finished accounts\, not as works in progress. I adopt a different perspective\, considering how characterizations of neural activity as representational contributes to the development of mechanistic accounts\, guiding the questions neuroscientists ask as they work from an initial proposal to a more detailed understanding of a mechanism. In this talk I develop one illustrative example involving research on the information processing mechanisms mammals employ in navigating their environments. This research was galvanized by the discovery in the 1970s of place cells in the hippocampus. This discovery prompted research about how place representations are constructed in the relevant hippocampal neurons and how they figure in navigation. It also led to the discovery of a host of other types of neurons—grid cells\, head-direction cells\, boundary cells—that interact with place cells in the mechanism underlying spatial navigation. As I will try to make clear\, the research is explicitly devoted to identifying representations and determining how they are constructed and used in an information processing mechansm. Accounts in terms of representations are not a mere gloss but as theoretical commitments in the development of the explanatory accounts by the neuroscientists. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nWilliam Bechtel is a professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California\, San Diego. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 until 2002. Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program\, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director. Before that\, he was at Georgia State. Bechtel earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his BA from Kenyon College. \nRead more about William Bechtel. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/william-bechtel-investigating-neural-representations-tale-place-cells/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130501T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130501T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T175613Z
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SUMMARY:Alfonso Caramazza: Levels of Representation in the Mind/Brain: What Good Are Sensory-Motor Representations?
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Caramazza examines the long debated relationship between the sensorimotor systems and thought. There is a major divide between scientists who reduce sensorimotor representations\, and those who consider concepts as too abstract or symbolic for simple reduction to sensorimotor patterns. He will discuss these views through the analysis of various phenomena and experimental results. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nAlfonso Caramazza is Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory at Harvard University\, where he has been a member of faculty since 1995. Dr. Caramazza’s research explores the nature and organization of language processing and conceptual representations in the brain. His research also explores the nature of conceptual representations through projects that examine the neural organization of categorical knowledge in sighted and blind individuals\, often focusing on particular categories of interest.  \nRead more about Alfonso Caramazza. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/alfonso-caramazza-levels-representation-mindbrain-good-sensory-motor-representations/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130405T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130405T130000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Parker: Beyond Prediction: The Computer as ‘Inductive Device’ in the Study of Weather and Climate
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn this talk\, Parker will examine how scientists have used computers to understand weather and climate\, and how the computer might be even better used in the future to impact our understanding of meteorology. She discusses this against the backdrop of the study of severe storms and climate change. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nWendy Parker is an associate professor at Ohio University in Athens\, OH. Wendy has been a pioneer among philosophers of science systematically engaging with the role of computer simulations in the sciences\, more generally\, and climate modeling\, in particular. Her earliest philosophy publication\, became a classic in the field. She recently published “When climate models agree: The significance of robust model predictions” (Philosophy of Science\, 2011).  \nRead more about Wendy Parker. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/wendy-parker-beyond-prediction-computer-inductive-device-study-weather-climate/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Ecological Philosophy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130315T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130315T130000
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SUMMARY:John Norton: Approximation and Idealization
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThis Rotman Lecture focuses on approximation and idealization\, and how important the fact that only idealizations involve novel reference is when describing infinite limits\, as in statistical mechanics.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nJohn D. Norton studied chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales (1971-1974)\, then worked for two years as a technologist at the Shell Oil Refinery at Clyde\, Sydney. He then switched fields and began a doctoral program in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales (1978-1981). His dissertation was on the history of general relativity. When it was finished\, he visited at the Einstein Papers Project (1982-83) when the Papers were located at Princeton University Press with John Stachel as editor. In September 1983\, he came to Pittsburgh as a visitor in the Center for Philosophy of Science/visiting faculty member in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s been in the Department of HPS ever since. He was promoted to full professor in 1997\, served as Chair in 2000-2005 and is now Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. \nRead more about John D. Norton. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/john-norton-approximation-idealization/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Physics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130314T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20130314T130000
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SUMMARY:John Norton: Einstein as the Greatest of the 19th Century Physicists
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nModern writers often endow Einstein with a 21st century prescience about physical theory that\, it just so happens\, is only now vindicated by the latest results of the same writers’ research. Norton explores another side of Einstein – the sense in which his work fulfills the discoveries of the 19th century.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nJohn D. Norton studied chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales (1971-1974)\, then worked for two years as a technologist at the Shell Oil Refinery at Clyde\, Sydney. He then switched fields and began a doctoral program in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales (1978-1981). His dissertation was on the history of general relativity. When it was finished\, he visited at the Einstein Papers Project (1982-83) when the Papers were located at Princeton University Press with John Stachel as editor. In September 1983\, he came to Pittsburgh as a visitor in the Center for Philosophy of Science/visiting faculty member in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s been in the Department of HPS ever since. He was promoted to full professor in 1997\, served as Chair in 2000-2005 and is now Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. \nRead more about John D. Norton. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/john-norton-einstein-greatest-19th-century-physicists/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science,Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20121130T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20121130T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T180504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200608T162940Z
UID:18339-1354271400-1354276800@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Eric Schliesser: What Happened to Knightian (and Keynesian) Uncertainty Post WWII?
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn this talk\, Schliesser discusses the displacement of Knightian uncertainty from economics after 1945 by two new strategies. He will look at this discarded theory that could no longer be articulated\, or even recognized\, by the new theories that displaced it. Schliesser will also discuss the recent return to the concept of economic uncertainty in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nEric Schliesser is BOF Research Professor of Philosophy at Ghent University. He has published widely on Newton\, Huygens and their eighteenth-century reception (especially Hume and Adam Smith) as well as in the philosophy of economics. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Isaac Newton (Oxford University Press). \nRead more about Eric Schliesser. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/eric-schliesser-happened-knightian-keynesian-uncertainty-post-wwii/
LOCATION:Dr. David S.H. Chu International Student Centre\, International and Graduate Affairs Building\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20121119T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20121119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T180731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T180731Z
UID:18341-1353321000-1353326400@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Patricia Churchland: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn her talk\, renowned philosopher Churchland speaks about how the evolution of the mammalian brain led to the expansion from ‘me’ to ‘me-and-mine’ – the very heart of morality. Learn about ‘caring circuitry’ in the brain\, and how the brain molecule oxytocin is at the hub of the intricate neural adaptations sustaining our society. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nPatricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California San Diego\, where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. The impact of her book Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain (1986) created a new area of research that straddled the disciplines of Neuroscience and Philosophy. Her most recent book is Braintrust: What Neurosciecne Tells Us about Morality (2011)\, upon which her talk is based. \nRead more about Patricia Churchland. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/patricia-churchland-braintrust-neuroscience-tells-us-morality/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Biology,Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20121102T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20121102T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T180926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T180926Z
UID:18343-1351855800-1351861200@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Lainie Ross: Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation: Equity\, Efficiency and Unintended Consequences
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn her talk\, Ross describes three ways that kidney donations are allocated to those in need of a kidney transplant\, including the Equal Opportunity Supplemented by Fair Innings (EOFI) method. She will discuss the conceptions of efficiency and equity that are employed by each model\, and evaluate whether EOFI could conform to the National Organ Transplant Act criteria in today’s conditions of kidney scarcity and donor-candidate age mismatch. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nLainie Ross is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor; Professor of Pediatrics\, Medicine\, Surgery and The College; and Associate Director of the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics\, at the University of Chicago. She lectures frequently at national and international conferences\, where she addresses ethical controversies in medical practice and research. She is the author of over 100 research articles on ethical and policy issues in organ transplantation\, genetic testing\, pediatrics\, and human subjects protections. She serves on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection (SACHRP)\, and as the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Bioethics Executive Committee. \nRead more about Lainie Ross. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/lainie-ross-deceased-donor-kidney-allocation-equity-efficiency-unintended-consequences/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Ethics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20121005T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20121005T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T181158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T181158Z
UID:18345-1349436600-1349442000@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\n2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book\, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Reisch points out that it is no coincidence that the book was conceived\, written\, and published in America during the most stressful and anxiety-ridden years of the cold war. Reisch’s talk traces Kuhn’s influential book’s relationship with the brainwashing and mid-control fascinations of the cold-war period. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nGeorge Reisch is an American philosopher and teacher. He is the author of How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, and is currently working on a book specifically about the development of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Reisch teaches in Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies. He is the series editor for the Popular Culture and Philosophy series published by Open Court\, and has contributed articles to\, and edited several books in this series\, including Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter\, Happier\, More Deductive\, and Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge\, Think Think!. He is managing editor and webmaster of the long-running philosophy journal\, The Monist. \nRead more about George Reisch. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/george-reisch-paranoid-style-american-history-science/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science,Philosophy of Science,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120921T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120921T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T181352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T181352Z
UID:18347-1348227000-1348232400@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Stephen Gaukroger: Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot\, Hume\, Baumgarten and Herder
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn the 1760s\, Herder sets out a program for replacing metaphysical inquiry into the nature of thought with an anthropological account of the nature of thought. To understand the novelty and significance of Herder’s project\, Gaukroger places Herder’s philosophical anthropology in the context of his contemporaries\, Diderot\, Hume and Baumgarten. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nStephen Gaukroger is a British philosopher and intellectual historian. He is Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney\, where he has been since 1981. He recently also became a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. \nHe completed his BA at the University of London\, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge. \nHis most recent publications include The Collapse of Mechinism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity\, 1680-1760 (2011)\, and The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685 (2006). \nRead more about Stephen Gaukroger. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/stephen-gaukroger-sensibility-metaphysics-diderot-hume-baumgarten-herder/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science,Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120403T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120403T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T181547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200608T165407Z
UID:18349-1333452600-1333458000@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Moira Howes: Agency and the Evolution of Human Reproductive Immune Functions
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Howes’ talk is on how a variety of problematic assumptions about human biology in the environment of evolutionary adaptation are made in evolutionary and immunological accounts of reproductive immunology. Drawing on evidence from numerous scientific fields\, Howes will argue that these assumptions are scientifically flawed and that they involve substantial oversights. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nMoira Howes is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trent University. After her BSc (Guelph) in biology and eight months in an immunology Master’s program (Guelph)\, she transferred to the arts for her PhD (The University of Western Ontario) to study the conceptual foundations of science and problems in scientific reasoning. \nHowes’ areas of specialization include philosophy of science (especially biology)\, epistemology\, and metaphysics. Her research addresses biological self identity\, the role of values and philosophical concepts in the field of immunology\, and conceptual issues related to gender in evolutionary biology and immunology. \nCurrently \, she is writing about intellectual virtues and intellectual emotions in scientific reasoning\, using work in immunology\, evolutionary biology\, and environmental science as case examples. The goal of this research is to improve the quality of debate concerning science and science policy in the public domain. \nHer most recent publications include “Menstrual Function\, Menstrual Suppression and the Immunology of the Human Female Reproductive Tract” in Perspectives (2010) and “Conceptualizing the Maternal-Fetal Relationship” in Reproductive Immunology (2008). \nRead more about Moira Howes. \n  \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/moira-howes-agency-evolution-human-reproductive-immune-functions/
LOCATION:Dr. David S.H. Chu International Student Centre\, International and Graduate Affairs Building\, Western University\, London\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120330T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120330T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T181815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T181815Z
UID:18351-1333107000-1333112400@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Michael Parker: Moral Craft in the Genetics Clinic and Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Parker’s talk will explore the moral world of the contemporary genetics profession at a key moment in its development. In particular\, the talk will focus on the relationships between the well-established and reasonably stable moral commitments underpinning ideas of ‘good practice’ in contemporary clinical genetics –- such as those to the care of both the patient and the family -– and the ways in which these commitments and the practices which support them\, can emerge as ethically problematic for genetics professionals on account of the complexities of family life\, technological innovation\, and shifting institutional boundaries. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nMichael Parker is a Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. His main research interest is in the ethical and social dimensions of collaborative global health research. He leads the ethics programmes of the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) which carries out genomic research into severe malaria in childhood at 24 sites in 21 countries (funded by the Welcome trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative). He also leads the ethics programme of the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health and is the Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Global Health Research Ethics Network (funded by a Welcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Enhancement Award). \nSince 2001\, Parker has coordinated the Genetics Club\, a national ethics forum for health professionals and genetics laboratory staff in the United Kingdom to discuss the ethical issues arising in their day-to-day practice and to share good practice. This provides the background to Parker’s other main research interest\, which is in the ethical aspects of the clinical use of genetics. \nTwo of Parker’s most recent publications are “Ethical Issues in Human Genomics Research in Developing Countries” (with Janita de Vries\, Susan Bull\, Ogobara Doumbo\, Muntaser Ibrahim\, Odile Mercarau-Puijalon) (2011)\, and “Working with Concepts: The Role of Community in International Collaborative Biomedical Research” (with Vicki Marsh\, DM Kamuya\, and Sassy Molyneux) (2011). \nRead more about Michael Parker. \n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/michael-parker-moral-craft-genetics-clinic-laboratory/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Philosophy of Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120309T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120309T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T182016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T182016Z
UID:18353-1331289000-1331294400@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Nancy Cartwright: Wiser Use of Social Science\, Wiser Wishes\, Wiser Policies
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nIn Dr. Cartwright’s lecture\, Wiser Use of Social Science\, Wiser Wishes\, Wiser Policies\, she considers the rhetoric of blame and accountability with regards to social issues such as protection of children from domestic abuse. Amidst calls for best practice\, and the insistence on implementing only policies that work\, Cartwright questions whether policies that ‘work’ will work for us\, and whether attendant problems\, such as program failures\, could result. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nNancy Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science; she is also a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego. Her principal interests are philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics)\, modelling in science\, causal inference\, and evidence and objectivity in science and policy. \nCartwright is a Fellow of the British Academy\, a member of the American Philosophical Society\, the American Academy of Arts and Science\, and the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She was recently president of the Philosophy of Science Association and of the American Philosophical Association\, Pacific Division. Cartwright holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nShe is currently engaged in a project at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment on evaluating and predicting effectiveness of interventions to mitigate the effects of climate change and she is writing a book with Jeremy Hardie\, Evidence-based Policy: Doing It Better. A Practical Guide to Predicting if a Policy Will Work For You for Oxford University Press. \nHer two most recent books are Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can and Cannot be Done with Them? (2007)\, and Hunting Causes and Using Them: Studies in Philosophy and Economics (2007). \nRead more about Nancy Cartwright. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/nancy-cartwright-wiser-use-social-science-wiser-wishes-wiser-policies/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Ethics,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T182212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T182212Z
UID:18355-1331208000-1331213400@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Nancy Cartwright: Evidence\, Argument and Mixed Methods
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Cartwright’s lecture\, Evidence\, Argument and Mixed Methods\, focuses on effectiveness predictions for illustration. Effectiveness predictions are predictions that well-defined policies will produce targeted outcomes in the present\, as soon as they are implemented. Randomized controlled trials are touted as a gold standard for effective prediction claims – but there is a catch\, which Cartwright will address in this lecture. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nNancy Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science; she is also a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego. Her principal interests are philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics)\, modelling in science\, causal inference\, and evidence and objectivity in science and policy. \nCartwright is a Fellow of the British Academy\, a member of the American Philosophical Society\, the American Academy of Arts and Science\, and the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She was recently president of the Philosophy of Science Association and of the American Philosophical Association\, Pacific Division. Cartwright holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nShe is currently engaged in a project at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment on evaluating and predicting effectiveness of interventions to mitigate the effects of climate change and she is writing a book with Jeremy Hardie\, Evidence-based Policy: Doing It Better. A Practical Guide to Predicting if a Policy Will Work For You for Oxford University Press. \nHer two most recent books are Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can and Cannot be Done with Them? (2007)\, and Hunting Causes and Using Them: Studies in Philosophy and Economics (2007). \nRead more about Nancy Cartwright. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/nancy-cartwright-evidence-argument-mixed-methods/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120217T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120217T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170819T182407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170819T182407Z
UID:18357-1329474600-1329480000@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Sylvia Berryman: How Many Philosophers Does It Take To Haul A Ship? Thoughts on the Philosophical Reception of Ancient Greek Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nSylvia Berryman’s talk focuses on ancient Greek mechanics\, which were so crucial to the emergence of the ‘mechanical world picture’ and the New Science in the seventeenth century. These same mechanics also provoked philosophical responses from the philosophers of late antiquity. By observing responses to Aristotle’s ‘ship hauler’ problem\, Berryman will reveal a new picture of the reception of mechanics in ancient Greek natural philosophy. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nSylvia Berryman studied ancient Greek philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. As a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in King’s College London\, she worked as editorial assistant for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project. She joined the department at the University of British Columbia in 2004\, following five years with the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. \nBerryman has received fellowships and grants from the Center for Hellenic Studies\, the National Humanities Center\, the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton\, the National Science Foundation and SSHRC. Her research interests centre on ancient Greek natural philosophy and the impact of Greek science on natural philosophy: published papers consider the philosophical reception of optics\, mechanics\, medicine\, pneumatics\, as well as theories of mixture\, qualities\, causation and teleology. \nBesides ancient philosophy\, Berryman has teaching interests in applied ethics and the challenge of extreme poverty. She has been integrating service learning experiences in ethics teaching\, both in Vancouver-based courses and as directer of a new Global Citizenship Term Abroad to Guatemala in fall 2009. Her most recent book is The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy (2009). \nRead more about Sylvia Berryman. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/sylvia-berryman-many-philosophers-take-haul-ship-thoughts-philosophical-reception-ancient-greek-mechanics/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111118T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170822T181352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T181352Z
UID:18361-1321612200-1321617600@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Alison Wylie: A Plurality of Pluralisms – Collaborative Practice in Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Wylie’s lecture focuses on examples of collaborations between archaeologists and descendant communities that are epistemically productive in ways that are systematically obscured by the sharply drawn conflicts of headline news. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nAlison Wylie is a feminist philosopher of science at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She works on epistemic questions raised by archaeological practice and by feminist research in the social sciences. In particular\, she is concerned with a cluster of problems to do with evidential reasoning and with ideals of objectivity that come into focus when we attend to the vagaries of inference from limited data\, and to the role played by contextual values in the research process. For example\, how do archeologists establish knowledge claims about the social and cultural past\, given their radically incomplete and enigmatic data base? And how should ideals of objectivity be defended or reformulated when it is recognized that explicitly partisan interests are by no means always or only a source of compromising bias\, but sometimes play a crucial (corrective and productive) role in scientific inquiry? \nDr. Wylie earned her MA in archaeology and her PhD in Philosophy from SUNY Binghamton with a dissertation directed by Rom Harre. Recent publications include “Socially Naturalized Norms of Epistemic Rationality: Aggregation and Deliberation” (2006)\, and “The Promise and Perils of an Ethic of Stewardship.” \nRead more about Alison Wylie.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/alison-wylie-plurality-pluralisms-collaborative-practice-archaeology/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20111104T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20111104T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170822T181812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T181812Z
UID:18363-1320406200-1320411600@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Katherine Brading: Unity\, Change\, and What There Is
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Brading’s lecture considers such fundamental questions as ‘What is there?’ and ‘How\, if at all\, can what there is undergo change?’ She explores the relationships between matter\, space and time by means of an approach to physics that has its origins in Newton’s engagement with Descartes’ philosophy. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nKatherine Brading is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in philosophy of physics\, especially symmetries and conservation laws in contemporary physics\, and including quantum mechanics\, relativity\, and seventeenth-century cosmology. \nShe received her BSc in Physics and Philosophy from King’s College London (1992)\, her BPhil (Philosophy) at Oxford (1996) and her DPhil (Philosophy) at Oxford (2002). Her most recent papers are A Note on General Relativity\, Energy Conservation\, and Noether’s Theorems (2005) and Are Gauge Transformations Observable?(with Harvey Brown\, 2004). \nRead more about Katherine Brading.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/katherine-brading-unity-change/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20110930T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170822T182015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T182015Z
UID:18365-1317382200-1317387600@www.rotman.uwo.ca
SUMMARY:Sandra Mitchell: GMOs and Policy in a Complex\, Diverse World
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Mitchell’s lecture considers how both biological diversity and value pluralism thwart simple regulatory models for genetically modified organisms. For example\, we talk about policy for BT modified plants\, yet there are about 600 known strains of Bacillus thuringiensis and the effect of different strains on different host plants as well as the consequences for pesticide reduction vary. Reasonable policy needs to take account of these complexities. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nSandra D. Mitchell is a philosopher and historian of ideas and a professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the philosophies of biology and the social sciences\, and the connection between them. \nShe worked at the Ohio State University (1985-1989) and University of California\, San Diego (1989-1999)\, before joining the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in 2000. She has been a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies\, at the University of Bielefeld (1991-1992)\, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (2004-2005)\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, Berlin (1993-1994)\, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2010). \nMitchell received her BA in philosophy from Pitzer College (1973)\, her MSc in Logic\, Philosophy and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics (1975)\, and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh (1987). Her most recent books are Unsimple Truths: Science\, Complexity and Policy(2008) and Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism (2003).  \nRead more about Sandra Mitchell. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/sandra-mitchell-gmos-policy-complex-diverse-world/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Biology,Science and Values
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20110916T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110916T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064959
CREATED:20170822T182214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T182214Z
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SUMMARY:Frederique de Vignemont: Bodily Immunity to Error
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. de Vignemont’s lecture considers the question ‘Are bodily self-ascriptions immune to error through misidentification?’ According to the classic view\, one cannot be mistaken about whose body part it is when experiencing them on the basis of body senses. De Vignemont considers two putative objections to this ‘bodily immunity.’ \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nFrederique de Vignemont works in philosophy of cognitive science. Her training has been both in philosophy (at the Jean-Nicod Institute\, Paris and at the Department of Philosophy\, NYU) and in cognitive science (at the Institute of Cognitive Science\, Lyon and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience\, London). She did her PhD with Pierre Jacob on the question of immunity to error through misidentification (“Who’s who? Self\, agency and ownership”\, EHESS\, 2002). She is interested in self-consciousness and disorders of agency and ownership. \nHer current work is twofold. First\, she works on body representations from a philosophical perspective\, from an anthropological perspective (in collaboration with Asifa Majid\, MPI\, Nijmegen) and from a psychological perspective (in collaboration with Patrick Haggard\, UCL\, London). She recently received a three-year research grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche on body representation\, in collaboration with Alessandro Farné (Unité Inserm 534\, Lyon).  \nRead more about Frederique de Vignemont.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/frederique-de-vignemont-bodily-immunity-error/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Andrew Janiak: Three Concepts of Cause in Newton’s Thought
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nDr. Andrew Janiak\, of Duke University\, examines how Newton’s assertion that objects spread across space can interact causally is related to his endorsement of the traditional metaphysical concepts of substance and of causation.  \nDownload a copy of the lecture handout. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nAndrew Janiak has been a Professor at Duke University since 2002. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and at Tel Aviv University. He earned his MA from the University of Michigan\, and his PhD from Indiana University Bloomington. \nJaniak’s primary research interests are the history of early modern philosophy and the history and philosophy of science. He is the recipient of the Richard Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008-09 from Duke’s School of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Newton as Philosopher (2008)\, and editor of Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (2004).   \nRead more about Andrew Janiak.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/andrew-janiak-three-concepts-cause-newtons-thought/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20110304T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110304T120000
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SUMMARY:Kyle Stanford: The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nKyle Stanford delivered this lecture entitled\, “The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity”\, where he examined the evolutionary function of moral projection.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\nPhoto by L. Perniciaro \nKyle Stanford has been a Professor in the department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California Irvine since 1997. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of California\, San Diego in Philosophy (1994)\, and Philosophy/Science Studies (1997)\, respectively. \nStanford’s primary research interests are philosophy of biology\, philosophy of science\, epistemology\, and metaphysics and the history of modern philosophy. His research is centrally concerned with ‘what we know and how we know it\, especially in science.’ His most recent book is Exheeding Our Grasp: Science\, History\, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2006). \nRead more about Kyle Stanford.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/kyle-stanford-difference-ice-cream-nazis-evolution-emergence-moral-objectivity/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Science and Values
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