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#TBT Andrew Janiak’s lecture, “Three Concepts of Cause in Newton’s Thought”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

#TBT Andrew Janiak’s lecture, “Three Concepts of Cause in Newton’s Thought”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Andrew Janiak, of Duke University, delivered a lecture entitled, “Three Concepts of Cause in Newton’s Thought”. His lecture examined 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. Video [...]

Deborah Fox2015-08-06T11:06:57-04:00August 6th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Physics|

#TBT Kyle Stanford’s lecture, “The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the Emergence of Moral Objectivity”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

Kyle Stanford, of the University of California Irvine, delivered a 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. This lecture took place on March 4, 2011 as part of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series. Video of [...]

Deborah Fox2015-07-30T10:31:06-04:00July 30th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Ethics|

#TBT Uriah Kriegel’s lecture, “Experiential Origins of Intentionality”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Uriah Kriegel, of the University of Arizona, delivered a lecture entitled, "Experiential Origins of Intentionality". Several 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 [...]

Deborah Fox2015-07-23T13:37:01-04:00July 23rd, 2015|Events|

#TBT Colin Howson’s lecture, “Should Probabilities be Countably Additive?”, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Colin Howson, of the University of Toronto, delivered a lecture entitled "Should Probabilities be Countably Additive?", examining a specific case in the philosophy of science related to probability. Video of this lecture is now available on the Rotman YouTube channel.

Deborah Fox2015-07-16T18:49:04-04:00July 16th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

#TBT Susan Haack’s lecture, Six Signs of Scientism, is up on the Rotman YouTube Channel

During the 2010/2011 Rotman Institute of Philosophy Speaker Series, Susan Haack spoke about Scientism, the view that natural science is the most authoritative way of looking at the world, and is superior to other interpretations of life. Video of this lecture, Six Signs of Scientism, is now available on the Rotman YouTube channel.

Deborah Fox2015-07-09T15:59:02-04:00July 9th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

Rotman Postdoc Dan Hicks has job news!

Cross-posted from Dan Hicks' personal blog. Starting in September, I will be an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, working in the EPA’s Chemical Safety for Sustainability [CSS] program. I’ve actually known about this for almost two months, but only received the paperwork making things official this week. (I’m taking this as my first introduction [...]

rotmanadmin2021-06-24T14:26:57-04:00July 3rd, 2015|Members, PostDoctoral Fellows, Science and Society|

#TBT The 2010 Harperfest playlist is up on the Rotman YouTube channel

#TBT The 2010 Harperfest playlist is up on the Rotman YouTube channel

The 14th Annual Philosophy of Physics conference, Conceptions of Empirical Success, was held in Honor of Bill Harper’s retirement in 2010, and was organized by Wayne Myrvold. It features speakers on topics to which Harper made important contributions — in particular, historical approaches to questions of empirical success and decision theory.

Deborah Fox2016-01-29T11:41:24-05:00June 25th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

Video Posting – Peter Anstey: Locke on Measurement

Video Posting – Peter Anstey: Locke on Measurement

This Rotman Lecture concerns John Locke’s practical and theoretical interest in measurement. Locke’s fascination with the measurement of weight, distance, time and monetary value is evident throughout his notebooks, journal and correspondence. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that it features in his philosophical reflections as early as Drafts A and B of the Essay concerning Human Understanding (1671) [...]

Deborah Fox2015-06-24T11:20:39-04:00June 24th, 2015|Events, Philosophy of Science|

Rotman Members among most cited living philosophers

Rotman Institute Members Charles Weijer (Western University) and Stathis Psillos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) were listed among the top 91 most cited living philosophers in an article on Leiter Reports which compiled information from public Google Scholar pages. Weijer was number 54 on the list, with 4,375 citations, and Psillos was 84th, with [...]

robread2016-07-19T15:28:00-04:00June 19th, 2015|Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Rotman News|

Deborah Fox is our new Event Marketing Assistant

The Rotman Institute has hired Deborah Fox as our new Event Marketing Assistant. Deborah will help attract new audiences to Institute events, and has already been organizing our YouTube archives (which for various historical reasons are spread out over three different channels). The video organizing [...]

robread2021-12-15T16:10:50-05:00June 19th, 2015|Rotman News|