This research project is currently housed in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Dalhousie University.
Philosophy on the Spectrum is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
1. May 2024
AutPhi hires an undergraduate research assistant! Kayla Marie Beals recently completed a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy at Dalhousie University and was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA). Welcome, Kayla!
1. May 2024
AutPhi hires a graduate research assistant! Derek Andrews is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University. Andrews’ doctoral research investigates the intersection between biological approaches to psychiatry, natural kinds, and the practice of utilizing statistical information about mental disorders to inform health care policy pertaining to those disorders, taking the 2022-23 Canadian ban on persons with mental illness(s) as their sole underlying condition accessing medical assistance in dying as a test case. Welcome, Derek!
26. April 2024
LaCroix and Amero co-present their paper, ‘What do philosophers talk about when they talk about autism?’ at the Dalhousie Philosophy Department Colloquium Series in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
5. April 2024
LaCroix’s paper on autism and the value-free ideal of science presented at the Dalhousie Philosophy Department Colloquium Series in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1. February 2024
LaCroix, Amero, and Sidloski’s paper, ‘What do philosophers talk about when they talk about autism?’ accepted to the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, to be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Montréal (June, 2024).
11. December 2023
An interview with LaCroix appears on the NeuroDiving podcast: Episode 5 - New Paradigms, New Values
4. December 2023
An interview with LaCroix appears on the NeuroDiving podcast: Episode 4 - Zombie Pseudoscience
14. October 2023
LaCroix’s paper on autism and pseudoscience presented to the annual meeting of the Atlantic Regional Philosophers Association, held at the University of PEI in Charlottetown.
1. September 2023
AutPhi hires a graduate research assistant! Benjamin Sidloski is a Master’s Student in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University. He completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of British Columbia in 2021, with research contributions to the fields of evolutionary psychology and the study of addictive behaviours. Sidloski’s current research interests pertain to the intersection of philosophy of language and mind, and abnormal psychology/psychopathology. Welcome, Benjamin!
