The mission of the Rotman Institute is to bring philosophers into productive engagement with scientists, policy makers and the public. An important component of accomplishing this mission is building strong ties with our alumni and celebrating their accomplishments as they put their training into practice in academic, governmental and private spheres. Spencer Hey [...]
Productive Disagreement among Motivated Reasoners By Dan Hicks This is part III of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. In part I of this series, I discussed motivated reasoning, reasoning in which emotions or values play a significant [...]
Alternatives to Antagonism: Ambiguity and Uncertainty By Dan Hicks This is part II of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. In the first part of this post, I discussed the work of social psychologist Dan Kahan [...]
The Pervasiveness of Motivated Reasoning By Dan Hicks This is part I of a three-part series. This series will be posted simultaneously on Je Fais, Donc Je Suis, my personal blog, as well as the Rotman Institute Blog. Social and political values predict your views on climate change: if you're an egalitarian-communitarian (think: liberal, on the political [...]
Rotman's Visiting Fellow, Dr. Douglas Kutach will be presenting a talk on March 26th at 1:30-3:00pm in Somerville House room 3355. For his final talk in his three part series, he will be speaking about Influencing The Past. Further information on Douglas Kutach can be found here: http://sagaciousmatter.org/ Abstract In the final installment of this [...]
Below are interviews with Jody Culham and Robert Foley who are working on different aspects of perception as part of a partnership between the Brain and Mind Institute and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Jody Culham is professor in the psychology department and is studying the neuroscience of perception and action. Robert Foley holds a joint post-doc between the [...]
Join us next Wednesday March 5th at 1:30pm in University College room 287 for a talk by our Visiting Fellow, Douglas Kutach. The Metaphysics Of Causation, Solved In order to illustrate how Empirical Fundamentalism works in practice, I conduct an empirical analysis of causation. The result I present constitutes a comprehensive metaphysics of causation. I [...]
Dr. Stathis Psillos' talk, 'Revisiting 'the Bankruptcy of Science' Debate' is now available on our youtube page. Click here for the video
Check out the recent interview with Rotman Institute post-doc Robert Foley on CHRW. The interview with Robert begins about fifteen minutes in.Click here for the audio
Check out the post by Reuven Brandt about assisted dying on the Impact Ethics blog: http://impactethics.ca/2014/02/19/the-logical-slippery-slope-is-neither-slippery-nor-logical/
