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Workshop: Origins of Logical Reasoning, 5-6 May 2016

Workshop: Origins of Logical Reasoning, 5-6 May 2016

Origins Of Logic Workshop poster The Department of Philosophy, in conjunction with the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of Psychology, is sponsoring an international workshop, "Origins of Logical Reasoning," on 5-6 May 2016.  More details can be found at the conference website or by downloading the call for papers: CFP Origins of Logical Reasoning.

Cognitive Science Speaker Series: Tim Bayne (Western), "Can We Build a Consciousness Meter?"

Cognitive Science Speaker Series: Tim Bayne (Western), "Can We Build a Consciousness Meter?"

  The next session of the Cognitive Science Speaker Series will take place on Weds, Dec 02, at 3:30 pm. Details are as follows: Tim Bayne (Philosophy, University of Manchester and Western University), "Can we Build a Consciousness Meter?" Abstract One of the central challenges facing the science of consciousness is that of identifying ways […]

Cognitive Science Speaker Series: Jennifer Steele (York), "How and When Do Children's Implicit Racial Biases Develop?"

Cognitive Science Speaker Series: Jennifer Steele (York), "How and When Do Children's Implicit Racial Biases Develop?"

  Cognitive Science Speaker Series: Jennifer Steele (Psychology, York University), "How and When Do Children’s Implicit Racial Biases Develop?" Date & Time: Weds, 18 November 2015, at 3:30 pmPlace: Ross S 421

Speaker Series: Wayne Sumner (Univ of Toronto), "The Worst Things in Life"

Speaker Series: Wayne Sumner (Univ of Toronto), "The Worst Things in Life"

  Speaker Series: Wayne Sumner (Univ of Toronto), "The Worst Things in Life", Tues, Nov 17, 4:00-5:30 pm (note date and time), in Ross S 421 One test of adequacy for a theory of welfare is completeness: as I have put it elsewhere, a theory ‘should give us truth conditions for all of the different […]

New Publication - Idil Boran: A Carbon Price Is Just The Beginning

New Publication - Idil Boran: A Carbon Price Is Just The Beginning

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s announcement about a cap-and-trade system comes at a good time. This year is a turning point in the global effort on climate change. International negotiations have picked up momentum since 2012, and a global climate agreement is expected to be sealed at the end of this year in Paris. Public debates […]

Kristin Andrews is among the 2015 cohort of new scholars, artists, and scientists in the Royal Society of Canada

Kristin Andrews is among the 2015 cohort of new scholars, artists, and scientists in the Royal Society of Canada

RSC names three York U professors to the College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists Andrews has been instrumental in developing the field of philosophy of animal minds. Her interdisciplinary work in the philosophy of psychology demonstrates evolutionary continuity between human and other animals in ways that challenge human uniqueness claims based on supposedly human-unique […]

York PhD student reflects on his Three Minute Thesis experience

York PhD student reflects on his Three Minute Thesis experience

Joshua Mugg, a PhD candidate in philosophy, represented York University at the provincial Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals at Western University on April 23. His research – exploring human rationality and the nature of belief – was the focal point of his talk criticizing dual-process theories of reasoning, arguing that there is just one reasoning […]