One year ago, the United States approved a new injectable drug that prevents HIV. After successful clinical trials, long-acting cabotegravir was found to be almost 100 per cent effective at preventing HIV. It was approved in the U.S. on Dec. 20, 2021, f …
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
New findings from Western suggest characterizing anorexia as a ‘passion’ will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy. The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have...
Jonathan Kimmelman explores methods on how to bring research out of the lab and put it to work toward improved human health as part of the Rotman Speaker Series, sponsored by Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy. The McGill University professor will deliver his lecture, Anatomy of Clinical Translation: Ethics, Epistemology and Policy, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 21 in Medical Science Building (MSB) 148.
Andrew Peterson of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy explores support for veterans regardless of moral concerns about warfare.
Rotman blog asking big questions Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy recently launched its blog on science and philosophy. Readers can be accessed through the main page of the institute’s website or directly to the blog. In the Market returns to campus East meets...
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
New findings from Western suggest characterizing anorexia as a ‘passion’ will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy. The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have...
Jonathan Kimmelman explores methods on how to bring research out of the lab and put it to work toward improved human health as part of the Rotman Speaker Series, sponsored by Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy. The McGill University professor will deliver his lecture, Anatomy of Clinical Translation: Ethics, Epistemology and Policy, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 21 in Medical Science Building (MSB) 148.
Andrew Peterson of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy explores support for veterans regardless of moral concerns about warfare.
Rotman blog asking big questions Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy recently launched its blog on science and philosophy. Readers can be accessed through the main page of the institute’s website or directly to the blog. In the Market returns to campus East meets...