Serge Robert

Professor, Department of Philosophy

Université du Québec à Montréal

Participates in 6 items

Serge Robert is a professor of logic, philosophy of science and cognitive science at the theUniversité du Québec à Montréal. He has been one of the founders of the Institut des sciences cognitives at UQAM and has participated in most of the summer schools of the Institute. His field of investigation is the study of the reasoning processes at work in human cognition and in decision-making. He works at modeling cognitive processes and has been teaching for many years the modeling of environmental systems in the doctorate in environmental science. His work is at the interdisciplinary intersection of logic, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, computer science and environmental science.

Sessions in which Serge Robert participates

Monday 24 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:25 AM

Day 1 - A Perfect Cognitive Storm: Facing Surprises with Nonknowledge

1 minute, 8:29 AM EDT - 8:30 AM EDT

Eric Winsberg, University of South Florida (Speaker)

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University (Keynote speaker)

Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo (Speaker)

Dennis Meadows, University of New Hampshire (Speaker)

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Nadia Seraiocco, Université du Québec à Montréal (Master of ceremonies)

Tuesday 25 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:25 AM

Day 2 - Designing and Computing Climate Change Models: From ‘Limits to Growth’ to IPCC's Reports

1 minute, 9:29 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT

Patrick Grenier, Ouranos (Speaker)

Philippe Gachon, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

Dennis Meadows, University of New Hampshire (Speaker)

Albert Lejeune, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

10:50 AM

Serge Robert: The Modeling of Environmental Systems and its cognitive foundations

1 hour 15 minutes, 10:50 AM EDT - 12:05 PM EDT

Talk

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Speaker)

The presentation will first explain what a system is and will then give some basic notions about how to build a model of a system. It will insist o...

3:30 PM

Orientation Session I (ONLY for Students enrolled for Credits)

1 hour, 3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Students with credits session

Albert Lejeune, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Pierre Poirier, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Monday 31 May, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:00 PM

Orientation Session II (ONLY for Students enrolled for Credits)

55 minutes, 12:00 PM EDT - 12:55 PM EDT

Students with credits session

Albert Lejeune, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Pierre Poirier, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Tuesday 1 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:55 AM

Day 7 - Learning, Teaching and Communicating about Climate Change

1 minute, 9:59 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

Sara Harris, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California (Speaker)

Connie Roser-Renouf, George Mason University (Speaker)

Matthew A. Shapiro, Illinois Institute of Technology (Speaker)

Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal (Instructor)

Alexia Ostrolenk, Université de Montréal (Master of ceremonies)