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 >
Events
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 >
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 >
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 >
CCR Summer Seminar 2020
We are planning on basing the seminar series this year around one of the following two books: Cognitive Gadgets, Cecelia Heyes (2018) Representation in Cognitive Science, Nicholas Shea (2018) If…Read More >
Talk: Prof. Bart Geurts, 30th January
First Saying, then Believing: The Pragmatic Roots of Folk Psychology Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen) 2-4pm Thursday, 30th January 2020 Carrington 101 ABSTRACT Historical linguistics has revealed several pathways of language change…Read More >
Reading Emotions Conference 2019: About Time
We are delighted to announce the eighth year of the ‘Reading Emotions’ meeting on 6th and 7th June, 2019. This year, our theme is ‘About time: Temporal perspectives on affective…Read More >
Concepts, Pointers and Occasion-specific Thoughts
CCR members may be interested in this conference in London in June: CONCEPTS, POINTERS, AND OCCASION-SPECIFIC THOUGHTS Date: 3-4th June 2019 Venue: Room G7, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E…Read More >
