Bishma Chakrabarti (Reading, Psych) and Emma Borg (Reading, Philosophy) on ‘The overlap of reward and empathy: Empirical and theoretical considerations’. Thursday (7th Nov), 2.15-3.45pm, Humss 301. All welcome.
News and Events
The 7th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy
Is computation observer-relative? AISB-50, Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014 As part of the AISB-50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London The convention is organised by…Read More >
Upcoming talks around the University
Seminar series at the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences for Autumn 2013: http://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/research/pcls-seminars.aspx Seminar series for the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, Autumn 2013 and Spring 2014: Autumn…Read More >
Inaugural CCR conference
CCR will hold an inaugural conference on “Semantics and Science: What Can Experimental Work Tell Us about Meaning?”, 21st-22nd March 2014. Speakers will be as follows: Prof. Richard Breheny (UCL,…Read More >
Launch of CeLM
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at Reading will be launched on 3rd September 2013. Full details of the programme and further information about CeLM can be found on…Read More >
Forthcoming events
In the autumn term, Bhismadev Chakrabarti (Psychology, Reading) will give a talk on: ‘The overlap of reward and empathy: Empirical and theoretical considerations’. Comments by Emma Borg (Philosophy, Reading). Date…Read More >
CCR reading group 30th May
We’ll be meeting to discuss Jennifer Nagel’s paper “Intuitions and Experiments” in the CCR Reading Group/Philosophy Grad class. Here’s a link to the pdf of the paper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lybh4n147c8lda1/Nagel.Intuitions%20and%20Experiments.pdf We meet…Read More >
Prof. Kim Kirsner on fluency and aphasia
Prof. Kim Kirsner (Western Australia) will speak about his work on speech fluency and aphasia. This will also involve informal discussion of potential collaborations involving brain imaging and a new database…Read More >
Cognitive and Developmental Sections of the British Psychological Society @Reading
CogDev 2013 is a joint conference of the British Psychological Society’s Developmental and Cognitive Sections, to be held in Reading 4-6th Sept and organised by Dr Graham Schafer of the…Read More >
Call for Papers
The following conference (organised by recent CCR speaker Vincent Müller) and call for papers may be of interest to members: Philosophy & Theory of AI Conference, Oxford, 21 & 22…Read More >
Abstract for Vincent Müller’s talk, 9th May
Vincent C. Müller Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford www.sophia.de “If the human brain is a computer, does it follow that we can reproduce human cognition on different hardware?” Neuroscientists…Read More >
Change of venue for Vincent Müller’s talk
Vincent Muller’s talk next week (2-3.30, Thursday 9th May) will now talk place in the Nike Theatre in Agriculture (not G79 in Psych as advertised previously). Apologies for the change…Read More >