Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture
Sponsors
Founded in 1991, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is the senior research institute at the University of British Columbia. It supports basic research through collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives that have the potential to make important advances in knowledge. The Institute brings together scholars from UBC with distinguished researchers and experts from around the world to investigate fundamental research drawing upon and contributing to a wide range of diverse disciplines. Of overriding concern for all Institute activities is excellence in research characterized by being fundamental, interdisciplinary, innovative, and unique.
Additional sponsors of this workshop are the Situating Science Cluster Grant for the Humanist and Social Studies of Science, funding from a Workshop Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Department of History at UBC, and the Department of Philosophy at UBC.