Past Events - The Reading Centre for Cognition Research

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.