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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rotman Institute postdoctoral fellow, Robert Foley, is guest editor on special issue of Consciousness and Cognition. The special issue, on the topic of blindsight, can be accessed here.
Congratulations to Rotman Institute Alumna, Jennifer Epp, who received the best student essay prize from the Canadian Philosophical Association. The title and abstract of Jennifer's essay are below. Title: Why the Epistemic Effects of Oppression Must Matter in Feminist Theory Abstract: For decades feminist theorists have carefully investigated aspects of oppression that affect people as knowers. But [...]
Rotman Institute Graduate Student, Yann Benétreau-Dupin, has several new publications, including "The Bayesian Who Knew Too Much" at Synthese, and "Fair Numbers: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy" at Ergo (with Rotman Institute Alumnus, Guillaume Beaulac). Read more about Yann's work here.
Rotman Institute Alumnus, Spencer Hey, has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School (Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics and the Center for Bioethics). Spencer is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University. His work focus on methodological and ethical problems related to clinical trails. Read more about Spencer's research here.
Wayne C. Myrvold has started a petition in favour of Canadian scientists' right to freely communicate their results to the public.
Follow up to last-week's post on the EPR paper, a guest post by Roger Colbeck on its significance for cryptography.80 years ago, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen put to paper an argument that the use of the wave function for describing the state of a physical system is incomplete [7]. Looking back, it is remarkable to [...]
Wayne C. Myrvold80 years ago, in the May 15, 1935 issue of Physical Review, a remarkable paper was published, whose impact on our thinking about the world has been substantial, in ways that would, perhaps, have astonished the authors. The paper was concerned with a very abstract point about the nature of physical reality. But [...]
