CCR members may be interested in the Experimental Psychology Conference taking place at UoR next week. Details can be found in the EPS programme. Registration is not necessary but please…Read More >
CCR seminar 9th May: reading
The next CCR seminar will be on Tuesday 9th May, 4-5.30pm, CiNN Conference Room, Psychology. All welcome. Discussion will be lead by Prof. Phil Beaman (Psych). Please find below a handout and…Read More >
CeLM talk Weds 10th May
CCR members may be interested in the following CeLM talk: ‘Can people with developmental disorders function successfully as bilinguals? by Dr Napoleon Katsos – University of Cambridge Date Wed 10th May 2017…Read More >
Summer Seminar Series 2017
We will be running the CCR summer seminar series again this year. Full details to follow but preliminary details are below. All welcome! The psychology of philosophical thought experiments: knowledge, ordinary…Read More >
Ageing through the Ages: multidisciplinary perspectives
CCR members may well be interested in this programme of talks from the Medical Humanities group at Reading. Seminars will take place fortnightly on Mondays from 1 to 1.50 pm…Read More >
PCLS Chomsky Workshop
CCR members may well be interested in the following event, organised and hosted by the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at Reading. —– Workshop Generative Linguistics in the 21st Century: the Evidence…Read More >
Talk Cancellation: Tues 6th Dec.
I’m very sorry to say that today’s pain talk has had to be cancelled as our speaker, Prof. Brady, is stuck in Scotland due to fog. We hope to be able…Read More >
Talk: Justin Systma, 14th November
Title: The Bodily Conception of Pain Time: 11.00 – 13.00 Date: Monday 14th November Location: Humss 301 ABSTRACT: The standard view in philosophy treats pains as mental states with a…Read More >
Speaker, Tuesday 11th October
Our second pain talk of the term will take place as follows: Speaker: Jennifer Corns, University of Glasgow Title: Pain is not a natural kind Room: Palmer 108 Date: Tuesday 11th…Read More >
Speaker, Tuesday 4th October
A reminder that our first CCR speaker this year will be: Prof. Jaideep Pandit, Fellow St. John’s College Oxford and Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-jaideep-pandit/ Title: New States of Consciousness Revealed…Read More >
Pain Talks Autumn 2016
Continuing our series of pain events, we will have three visiting speakers next term (titles/rooms to follow): 4th October, 2-3.30pm Prof. Jaideep Pandit St. John’s Oxford and Consultant Anaesthetist at…Read More >
Talk: Tuesday 14th June
Dr Miguel Sebastián (UNAM Philosophy) and Dr James Stazicker (Reading Philosophy) will present some joint work in progress at CCR on Tuesday 14th June (2.00-3.30pm in HumSS 73). Miguel is visiting Reading as…Read More >
Pain seminar 25th May: Change of time
There will be a pain seminar next week but please note that (contra to the previous timetable) it will happen in the afternoon, not the morning. So details are: Topic: …Read More >
Summer Events
We will be running the CCR Summer Seminar Series again this year – on the topic of ‘Understanding Pain’. The schedule is still under construction, and thus may be subject…Read More >
Talk: Emma Borg, 8th March
Emma Borg (Reading) Title: What is the basis of social cognition? On behaviour-reading, mirroring and mindreading. When: 2pm, Tuesday 8th March Where: URS 2s14 (Urban and Regional Studies Building) Abstract A…Read More >
CeLM Talk: Tuesday 1st Dec
The following CeLM talk will be of interest to CCR members: Stephen Politzer-Ahles University of Oxford How does the brain understand what people mean (when they don’t say it)? Language…Read More >
Second ‘Pervasive Context’ conference, 25th-26th June 2016
The second AHRC research network conference on ‘Pervasive Context’, organised jointly by the Philosophy Departments of the University of Reading and Peking University, together with the Reading Centre for Cognition…Read More >
1st AHRC Pervasive Context Conference: Beijing 24th and 25th October 2015
Two members of CCR, Emma Borg and Nat Hansen, have recently returned from Beijing, where, in collaboration with colleagues Prof. YE Chuang and Dr. LI Qilin at Peking University, they…Read More >