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 >
News and Events
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 >
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 >
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 >
Who’s in Control? Re-examining agency in a world of bias
We are delighted to announce that CCR Director Prof. Emma Borg has been awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for work exploring human agency and the extent to…Read More >
Millikan, Meaning and Minimalism
CCR Director Emma Borg’s paper ‘Millikan, Meaning and Minimalism‘ has just been recognised as one of the Top 20 most downloaded papers from the journal *Theoria* in 2017-18. The paper,…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 >
CCR Summer Seminar 2019 details
Please see the timetable for the CCR summer series below. Talks start this Tuesday— everyone welcome! ———– Developing and Applying New Quantitative Methods in Experimental Philosophy of Language CINN Conference Room, Psychology…Read More >