News and Events

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >