RCCR Joint Director Nathaniel Hansen and philosopher Eugen Fischer (UEA) have received a 20k euro grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to organize a conference on ordinary language philosophy in…Read More >
Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align?
RCCR members may well be interested in the event below, run by CINNergies (an ECR-led interdisciplinary initiative funded by CINN): Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align? Friday 7th May…Read More >
PCLS talk: Wim de Neys, 29th April
RCCR members may well be interested in the talk below, hosted by the School of Psychology and Language Sciences. All welcome: Subject: External Seminar Series – Wim de Neys (CNRS,…Read More >
Summer Seminars: Reasons and rationality
Final details of the RCCR Summer Seminar Series on ‘Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality’ are now available: RCCR Summer Seminars 2021_poster The poster contains a link to the…Read More >
RCCR New Joint Director
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Nathaniel Hansen as the new Joint Director of RCCR. Nat is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and has a wealth…Read More >
ECR conference
RCCR members may be interested in this Early Career Workshop being run at UoR by CINN. The organisers write: “Please join us for our ECR-led conference on the 29th March…Read More >
RCCR Summer Seminar Series 2021 Announced
We are delighted to announce that the Summer Seminar Series will run again in 2021 (its ninth consecutive year). The topic is ‘Understanding others and ourselves: reasons and rationality’ and…Read More >
Borg joins HMRC
We are delighted to announce that RCCR Director Emma Borg has been appointed as an Independent Advisor to the Professional Standards Committee at HM Revenue and Customs. She will be…Read More >
Fisher to Vienna
We are delighted to announce that RCCR postdoc Sarah Fisher has secured a four-year post at the University of Vienna. Sarah worked on the RCCR project ‘Understanding and improving the…Read More >
Prize-winning essay on framing effects
Huge congratulations to CCR Post-doc Dr. Sarah Fisher on winning the 2020 Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía essay competition on empirically informed philosophy. The pre-print of Sarah’s winning entry –…Read More >
RCCR recognised as a University ‘Interdisciplinary Research Centre’
We are delighted to announce that, following a recent University-wide re-structuring of interdisciplinary work, RCCR has been recognised as a University ‘Interdisciplinary Research Centre’ (or IDRC), enabling us to continue…Read More >
Schedule for the Summer 2020 virtual reading group
Here is the schedule for the reading group this term, on Nick Shea’s ‘Representation in Cognitive Science’. If you’d like to come along to sessions (run on MS Teams), please…Read More >
CCR Summer Seminar 2020
The CCR Summer Seminar will be running again this year (its 8th consecutive year) but with a different format due to the Covid-19 outbreak. We will be hosting a virtual…Read More >
Framing and rationality
CCR members may be interested in this blog post by UoR researcher Sarah Fisher on how to understand framing effects. This is a guest post in Kevin Dorst’s ‘Stranger Apologies’…Read More >
When it comes to pain, is it really mind over matter?
CCR work on pain has also been picked up in today’s Independent: When it comes to pain, is it really mind over matter? Please do circulate the article far and…Read More >
New blog on rationality
CCR members may well be interested in this new blog from philosopher Kevin Dorst at Oxford: Stranger apologies Kevin is interested in the degree to which results in psychology support…Read More >
Funding for Understanding Chronic Pain
CCR are delighted to announce funding from the Joint Academic Board (JAB), a combined Board involving the University of Reading and the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, for work on…Read More >
