Events

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

The first CCR seminar of this academic year will be: Mirror Neurons in the Tree of Life: development and evolution of a specific sensorimotor structure Antonella Tramacere, Department of Neuroscience…Read More >

CCR members may be interested in this forthcoming Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism talk: Title: Mapping Mind and Language(s) Time: Wednesday 7th October, 3pm Place: TBA Mapping Mind and Language(s) In…Read More >

This summer, the philosophy department will be holding a summer reading group. The subject of the group is Concepts: Ontology and Structure. The ontology of concepts concerns what kind of thing…Read More >

There will be a summer reading group on Concepts running in the Philosophy Department, all welcome. The first meeting is Thursday 9th July at 1pm, discussing Fodor’s ‘Why There Still Has…Read More >

Prof. Stephen Crain, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at McQuarie University in Sydney Australia will be visiting Monday and Tuesday of next week…Read More >

CCR Director, Emma Borg, will be speaking at ‘How the Light Gets In’, the annual festival of ideas at Hay-on-Wye. https://www.facebook.com/HowTheLightGetsIn?fref=ts She will be discussing ‘The Road to the Good…Read More >

  Professor Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Austin, Texas), Theme: Acting in the Light of a Fact  Dates: 27th & 28th May, 2015  Location: Sorby Room, School of Archaeology, Geography and environmental Science…Read More >

The next meeting of the AHRC research network on Pervasive Context will take place as follows: Paper: Color Adjectives, Standards, and Thresholds: An Experimental Investigation by Nat Hansen and Emmanuel…Read More >

CCR is running a summer seminar series again this year, this time on ‘Representation and Nature’. For further details, please see Summer seminar 2015_programme. All are welcome to attend. Time:…Read More >

CCR members may well be interested in the following events, organised by the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences: Inaugural Albert Wolters Public Lecture and Workshop If you wish to…Read More >

The next virtual meeting of the AHRC Pervasive Context Network (between University of Reading and Peking University, Beijing) will take place as follows: Date: 18/03/2015 UK time: 10:00 – 12:00…Read More >