Events

Doug Guilbault Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania   Attractor Dynamics in the Social Construction of Categories   It is widely held that communication leads social groups to differ in the cultural traits and linguistic categories they adopt. Because individuals can vary in how they form novel categories, larger population sizes are said to […]

Robin Dembroff Department of Philosophy Yale University   Positions in Patriarchy: Retooling the Metaphysics of Gender   Decades of feminist theory have approached the question ‘what is gender?’ with an eye to gender as a system— in particular, the system that creates and sustains patriarchy. Using this approach, feminists have proposed theories of gender focused on […]

Penn Science Policy & Diplomacy Group presents: Science Communication Workshops, 2019 – 2020 Scientific Storytelling September 17, 2019 12:15pm-1:45pm JMEC 516EW (5th Fl Smilow Center for Translational Research, West Pavilion) 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104 How to make your science a story Humans respond to stories: we’re wired for it! Rafael E. Luna, […]

SBSI Brown Bag: Daniel Yudkin

September 18, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Daniel Yudkin SBSI Postdoc University of Pennsylvania   Flexible Ethics: On the Activation, Transformation, and Misperception of Moral Values   Philosophers have long compared moral rules to natural laws, as fixed and universal as gravity. Research in psychology, however, suggests that, at least when it comes to human judgment, morality is far from constant. The […]