RCCR events
- The main RCCR event is the annual ‘Summer Seminar Series’. This takes place over a number of weeks (typically 6-8 sessions of 1.5 hours) and involves Reading staff and students, together with external speakers and participants, coming together to examine a topic of mutual interest over an extended period (see list of past seminars below).
- In addition, RCCR has organised (either independently or jointly with other groups) a number of conferences or ad hoc events since its inception in 2013 (see list below).
Summer Seminar Series
| Year | Title | Funding | Main UoR staff |
| 2013 | The role of intuitions in experimental philosophy | — | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Stazicker.
PCLS: Rosch, Saddy, Glennerster. |
| 2014 | Pervasive context | AHRC | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Grindrod, Pinder. |
| 2015 | Representation in nature | — | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Stazicker, Grindrod.
PCLS: Hill, Christakou, Glennerster. |
| 2016 | The role of mirror neurons in understanding other minds | Templeton | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Stazicker, Grindrod.
PCLS: Murray, Christakou, Schafer, Chakrabarti. |
| 2017 | Experimental psychology for experimental philosophers | Leverhulme | Philosophy: Hansen, Borg, Stazicker, Grindrod.
PCLS: Beaman |
| 2018 | The interdisciplinary understanding of pain | Reading Endowment Trust Fund | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Stazicker, Grindrod.
PCLS: Salomons, Harrison, Christakou. History: Newton. |
| 2019 | Developing and Applying New Quantitative Methods in Experimental Philosophy of Language | Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) | Philosophy: Hansen, Borg, Grindrod.
PCLS: Beaman. |
| 2020 | Representation in Cognitive Science | — | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Grindrod, Dupre.
PCLS: Christakou, Glennerster. |
| 2021 | Reasons and Rationality: Understanding Others and Ourselves | UoR funding | Philosophy: Borg, Hansen, Grindrod, Hooker.
PCLS: Christakou, Vogt. |
| 2022 & 2023 | Did the defendent use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation | UoR funding for 2-year project | Philosophy: Hansen (PI), Borg, Grindrod.
Politics: Lepoutre (CI) |
Conferences and One-off Events
RCCR has helped to organise a number of one-off events at Reading, such as:
- An inaugural two-day conference on experimental approaches to meaning (2014), in conjunction with Ratio, with associated publication edited by Borg & Hansen. Funded by external awards.
- A Ratio two-day conference on ‘Experimental Philosophy as Applied Philosophy’ (2016), run by James Andow. Funded by external awards.
- A two-day conference on ‘Pain and Belief: from meaning to modulation’ (2018), run jointly with Reading Emotions. Funded by a range of internal and external awards.
- A special seminar series on the work of Daniel Dennett (2019), in advance of Dennett’s week-long visit to Reading (events during Dennett’s visit included a public lecture, dedicated meetings with graduate students, and a two-day symposium, where Borg was also a speaker).
- ‘Truth, Meaning and Polysemy’ workshop (2019) involving ten external UK and European experts in philosophy of language. Funded by an internal award.
- An internal workshop on ‘The “polyeidic” theory of pain’ involving UK and Canadian experts (2019). Funded by an internal award.