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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110401T130000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110211T120000
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SUMMARY:Colin Howson: Should Probabilities be Countably Additive?
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nThough it may not sound like a very exciting question\, a good deal of both the mathematics and the interpretation of probability depend on the answer to it. Many of the striking theorems of mathematical probability\, like the celebrated ‘with probability 1’ convergence theorems\, depend on the axiom of countable additivity\, as does the use of the techniques of modern measure theory generally. The axiom is also widely supposed to be demanded by de Finetti’s well-known theory of coherence\, despite the fact that de Finetti repudiated it. I argue that nearly all the standard arguments for countable additivity are invalid or question-begging\, that it is not presupposed by de Finetti’s theory of coherence\, and that his repudiation of it arose from a very logical view of subjective probability. I endorse that view\, and show that de Finetti’s theory of coherence/consistency for assignments of probability-values differs formally very little from the definition of consistency for truth-value assignments implicit in classical propositional logic.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nColin Howson has been a Professor at the University of Toronto since 2008. He was previously a Professor of Logic at the London School of Economics\, where he also completed his PhD. Howson’s primary research interests are philosophy of science\, logic\, and foundations of probability. A former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2003-2005)\, his book Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach (with Peter Urbach) (1989) is considered the canonical philosophical defense of Bayesian reasoning. His other books include Hume’s Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief (2000)\, and Logic with Trees: An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (1997).   \nRead more about Colin Howson.\n \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/colin-howson-probabilities-countably-additive/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:History of Philosophy of Science,Philosophy of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20110107T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20110107T120000
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SUMMARY:Susan Haack: Six Signs of Scientism
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nSusan Haack’s lecture\, titled Six Signs of Scientism\, discusses the social phenomenon known as scientism\, the view that natural science is the most authoritative way of looking at the world\, and is superior to other interpretations of life.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nSusan Haack is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities\, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences\, Professor of Philosophy\, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. Her work ranges from philosophy of logic and language\, epistemology\, metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, Pragmatism—both philosophical and legal—and the law of evidence\, especially scientific evidence\, social philosophy\, feminism\, and philosophy of literature. \nHer books include Philosophy of Logics; Deviant Logic\, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism; Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate; Defending Science – Within Reason; Pragmatism\, Old and New; and most recently\, Putting Philosophy to Work (2008)\, Ciencia\, Sociedad y Cultura (2008)\, and the second\, expanded edition of her internationally-acclaimed Evidence and Inquiry (2009). Prof. Haack’s work has been translated into over twelve languages\, and she has given talks in Chile\, China\, Colombia\, Finland\, Italy\, Spain\, Slovakia\, Switzerland\, and the U.K. \nProf. Haack has won awards from the American Philosophical Association\, and the University of Miami for excellence in teaching; and (also from University of Miami) an award for outstanding graduate mentor\, the Provost’s Award for excellence in research\, and the Faculty Senate Distinguished Scholar Award; as well as the (national) Forkosch Award for excellence in writing. She was included in Peter J. King’s One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Thinkers and on the Sunday Independent’s list\, based on a BBC poll\, of the ten most important women philosophers of all time; and her work has celebrated in a volume of essays entitled Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions. \nRead more about Susan Haack. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/susan-haack-six-signs-scientism/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Science
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SUMMARY:Philip Kitcher: Alienation and its Dangers
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nSpeaking at the official opening of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy\, Dr. Philip Kitcher gave this lecture entitled “Alienation and its Dangers”. This was the second of two lectures\, under the collective title\, “Science in a Democratic Society”\, engaged with Kitcher’s ideas about the two forces of democracy and science\, and how they interact with each other. Information on the first lecture\, entitled “”Authority\, Responsibility\, and Democracy” can be found here. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nPhilip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of science. Kitcher worked closely with Thomas Kuhn while at Princeton\, where he earned his Ph.D in 1974. Kitcher is best known for his work examining bioethics\, creationism and sociobiology. Kitcher currently teaches at Columbia University in the Department of Philosophy where he holds an appointment as the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy. As chair of Columbia’s Contemporary Civilization program\, he also holds the James R. Barker Professorship of Contemporary Civilization. Kitcher is past president of the American Philosophical Association. Kitcher’s most recent books include Living with Darwin: Evolution\, Design\, and the Future of Faith (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, and Science\, Truth\, and Democracy (Oxford University Press\, 2001). \nRead more about Philip Kitcher. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/philip-kitcher-alienation-dangers/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Science and Values
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20101021T150000
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SUMMARY:Philip Kitcher: Authority\, Responsibility\, and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nSpeaking at the official opening of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy\, Dr. Philip Kitcher gave this lecture entitled  “Authority\, Responsibility\, and Democracy.” This was the first of two lectures\, under the collective title\, “Science in a Democratic Society”\, engaged with Kitcher’s ideas about the two forces of democracy and science\, and how they interact with each other. Information on the second lecture\, entitled “Alienation and its Dangers” can be found here. \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nPhilip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of science. Kitcher worked closely with Thomas Kuhn while at Princeton\, where he earned his Ph.D in 1974. Kitcher is best known for his work examining bioethics\, creationism and sociobiology. Kitcher currently teaches at Columbia University in the Department of Philosophy where he holds an appointment as the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy. As chair of Columbia’s Contemporary Civilization program\, he also holds the James R. Barker Professorship of Contemporary Civilization. Kitcher is past president of the American Philosophical Association. Kitcher’s most recent books include Living with Darwin: Evolution\, Design\, and the Future of Faith (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, and Science\, Truth\, and Democracy (Oxford University Press\, 2001). \nRead more about Philip Kitcher. \nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/philip-kitcher-authority-responsibility-democracy/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Science and Values
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SUMMARY:Uriah Kriegel: Experiential Origins of Intentionality
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\n\nSeveral recent authors – Loar\, McGinn\, Strawson\, and Horgan\, among others – have argued that the intentionality proper to conscious experience is somehow prior to\, and grounds\, other forms of intentionality. Here as elsewhere in philosophy\, however\, it is not always clear what is meant by “priority” and “grounding.” Although the kind of priority these authors have in mind is distinctively metaphysical\, in this paper I present a way of unpacking the priority of the intentionality proper to conscious experiences in epistemological terms.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE\n\n\nUriah Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. He works mostly in philosophy of mind and metaphysics\, but is also interested in cognitive science\, metaethics\, epistemology\, early analytic philosophy\, and a number of other research areas. He received his PhD from Brown University in 2003\, whereupon he started teaching at the philosophy department at the University of Arizona. \nRead more about Uriah Kriegel.\n \n\nVIDEO
URL:https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/uriah-kriegel-experiential-origins-intentionality/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Mind & Neuroscience,Philosophy of Science
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