During our Ethics and Cosmology student-led seminar (Ethics for the Anthropocene, Module 5: Game Theory and Complexity in Ethics) on 16 November 2017, we were joined by Dr. John Gowdy, Professor of Economics and Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. […]
I had the privilege of being part of the creation of E4A from its early stages. In 2012, our proposal to Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) didn’t make it past the first stage. So, we submitted another “letter of intent” in 2013. Four “Holy S#*t” […]
Every Fall term the cohort who is in its second year organizes three student-led seminars on each of the Orphan Disciplines: 1) Ethics and Cosmology, 2) Economics and Finance, and 3) Law and Governance. This year the seminars are conducted by cohort 3, and those who have been assigned to the […]