Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Nina Emery, Mount Holyoke)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nina Emery, an assistant professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, focuses her research on the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of physics, especially on how our best scientific theories should inform our understanding of time, probability, and the laws of nature.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Emily Adlam, Western)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Emily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of physics. Currently, her particular interest is in approaches to physics that go beyond the time evolution paradigm,

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Angela Potochnik, Cincinnati)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Angela Potochnik is a professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for the Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Potochnik's research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in population biology.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Huw Price, Bonn)

Victoria College, Northrop Frye Hall, Room 119

Huw Price, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, and Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor at the University of Cambridge., will be speaking about quantum entanglement.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck, York)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jacob Beck is a York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception in the Department of Philosophy at York University. Beck’s research makes progress on longstanding philosophical puzzles about the mind by reconceptualizing them in light of contemporary cognitive science.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building 519

Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is interested in the structure of consciousness. His work examines how structural concepts—such as degrees, dimensions, continuity, discreteness, parts, wholes, isomorphisms, and state-spaces—can be applied to conscious experiences. Some of his work can be described as “mathematical phenomenology.”

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