Why do humans reason? Hugo Mercier Hugo Mercier is a research scientist at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), where his work with the Evolution and Social Cognition team and...Read More >
COVID-19 has caused havoc and upheaval in ways no-one could have foreseen. In our spring online Alumni Lecture Series, we welcome University of Reading graduates from diverse backgrounds and industries...Read More >
The Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network (HortQFLNet) is holding an online Sandpit Event on 18 May (09:00-12:30pm). This is an opportunity to learn more about the Network and the...Read More >
Normative folk psychology and decision theory, Joe Dewhurst Joe Dewhurst is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where he is working on a perspectival account of...Read More >
Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) presents an Online Film Screening & Discussion Event Wednesday 19th May 2021 Film Screening available from 4pm. Please watch here on Vimeo Discussion...Read More >
IFNH Lunchtime Seminar Series We are pleased to announce that our next Lunchtime Seminar "Cutting through the ‘glittering imaginary’ of agriculture 4.0: are new agricultural technologies ‘game-changing’, and if so,...Read More >
Conversational experiments: some reflections on Sperber and Mercier Kathryn Francis, Hamish Greening, Nat Hansen Kathryn Francis is a Lecturer in Psychology, University of Keele, Nat Hansen is Associate Professor of...Read More >
What does caring mean to you? How has your understanding of ‘care’ changed in the last year? Reading Assembly: Care is bringing together artists, social researchers and members of the...Read More >
Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality (summing up), Emma Borg Reflections on this year's Summer Seminar Series from Emma Borg, Director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research and...Read More >
15 June 2021 marks the 640th anniversary of the meeting of Richard II at Smithfield with Wat Tyler and his fellow rebels - a key event in the Peasants' Revolt....Read More >