News and Events

The 11th RCCR Summer Seminar Series will be on the theme of ‘Understanding Hate Speech in Ordinary, Legal and Online Language’. There will be three talks: Day/Time:                             Tuesdays, 11.00-12.30…Read More >

RCCR members may be interested in a workshop on polysemy taking place in Oxford, 23-24th March, organised by Dr. Michelle Liu. Details and registration here

The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced a new book award: The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. This new £20,000 Prize will annually reward the most original philosophical…Read More >

RCCR Joint Director Emma Borg will be running a reading group on her new book manuscript *Compelling Reasons* next term (Spring 2023). Details here. Sessions will be both in-person and…Read More >

The University of Reading Pain Network is holding a symposium on the 16th June. This will be of use to all researchers, regardless of discipline or experience specifically in pain…Read More >

The Health Innovation Partnership, a collaboration between University of Reading (UoR) and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT), is renewing its Collaborative Innovation Fund. The fund is open to colleagues from all professional groups…Read More >

The next meeting of the RCCR Law and Corpus Linguistics group will be 14.00-15.30 on 19th April. We will be discussing a paper by Kevin Tobia: ‘Testing Ordinary Meaning’, Harvard…Read More >

We are delighted to announce that RCCR members Emma Borg, Rich Harrison and Tim Salomon’s paper ‘Is the folk concept of pain polyeidic?‘ has been recognised as a #TopCitedArticle for…Read More >

RCCR members may be interested in this online workshop, run by the University of Oslo, on 9th-10th August, which aims to “bring together researchers working in epistemology and philosophy of…Read More >

The Philosophy Department at the University of Reading is looking to hire a 2 year postdoctoral researcher to work on a John Templeton Foundation funded project entitled “Mistakes in Living Systems:…Read More >

RCCR is delighted to announce a new 2 year project entitled: Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation….Read More >

Emma talks about her RCCR work on chronic pain in the first half of the interview, and her work on business ethics in the second part.

The University leadership Committee for Open Research and Research Integrity (CORRI), through its 2021-23 Open Research Action Plan (see https://tinyurl.com/uor-openresearch) is rolling out training opportunities to help you level up…Read More >

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 >