News and Events

  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 >

Prof. Rosemary Varley, UCL will give a joint CCR/CeLM talk, as follows: Title: Global aphasia: the case for autonomy of language and thought Time: 3-4.30pm Date: Wednesday 18th March Location: Agriculture, Room 1L06 …Read More >

The Dual Character of Art Concepts Tuesday 25th November, 2-4pm. Location: Carrington 101. Dr. Shen-yi Liao, University of Leeds & Nanyang University. All welcome. Abstract: There is a dormant debate…Read More >

The list of talks this term in the Psychology Department is now available. Many will be of interest to CCR members and all are welcome to attend.

Professor Emma Borg, CCR Director, will give a public lecture on animal cognition, entitled  ‘Planet of the Apes: what makes us human?’. To register for this free public event, please…Read More >

A reminder that our first CCR talk of the new academic year is as follows: Towards a computational theory of spatial cognition Friday 12th September, 1-3pm. Location: Psychology GS05  Prof. Albert…Read More >

Persons and Other Animals Wednesday 19th November. Location: Palmer Building. 18:00-19:00: public seminar, convened by Professor Brad Hooker (Reading Ethics and Political Philosophy Centre, REAPP) on the ethical dimensions of personhood,…Read More >

Please find below the talks we currently have arranged for the forthcoming academic year. All welcome at all talks. Further details, and further talks, will be posted on this site…Read More >

Prof. Lynne Murray (Winnicott Research Unit, Psychology Department, Reading University) will give a talk on: How early interactions with infants might support the development of social understanding and cognition 3-5pm,…Read More >

Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan) will talk on ‘A Puzzle about Relations between Thought, Experience and the Motoric’, in Psych G79, 3.30-5.30pm. Abstract: Motor representations live a kind of double life. Although…Read More >

Celia Heyes (Oxford) will talk on Mirror neurons and their role in action understanding, Psych 79, 3.30-5.30pm. All are welcome to attend.