Rotman Institute of Philosophy appoints new Director
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Western
University's Rotman Institute of Philosophy has announced the
appointment of Dr. Carl Hoefer as the new Director, effective July 2013.
Hoefer is currently ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and affiliated with the Catalan
Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), a foundation
supported by the Catalan Government and guided by a Board of Trustees.
His primary interest is in the metaphysics of nature, and his recent
work concerns the nature of objective probability as revealed by its
uses in many branches of science and other human activities.
Hoefer
previously held appointments at University of California Riverside and
the London School of Economics, where he was the Director of the Centre
for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS). Since autumn of
2002 Hoefer has been an ICREA and member of the UAB philosophy
department. He is also Editor in Chief of a new international journal,
the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, published by Springer.
Dr.
Genoveva Martà Campillo, another ICREA Research Professor at UAB, will
also be joining the Department of Philosophy at Western, though not
until July 2014. Her career includes previous appointments at the
University of Washington, Seattle, University of California Riverside,
and London School of Economics. She is primarily interested in the
exploration of reference, that is, the relation that obtains between
expressions and what speakers use expressions to talk about.
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University brings together philosophers and scientists to
examine some of the most complex issues and most engrossing problems
emerging from contemporary science. For more information, visit www.rotman.uwo.ca
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