I recently completed the production of my first film. I started work on it last year following a successful bid to a Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) funding…Read More >
philosophy
Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation
The Reading Centre for Cognition Research (RCCR) is delighted to announce this new 2 year project: Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying…Read More >
Executive Freedom in Descartes
Sir Anthony Kenny: Executive Freedom in Descartes Philosophy Department Cottingham Lecture Sir Anthony Kenny was born in Liverpool in 1931 and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University….Read More >
To err is human – or is it?
The saying goes that to err is human – but researchers at the University think that to err is to be alive in the first place. When Felix the cat…Read More >
Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
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 >
Conversational experiments: some reflections on Sperber and Mercier (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
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 >
Are you a climate change hypocrite? Here’s why you shouldn’t worry
Standing on the deck of Berta Cáceres, the now-iconic pink boat, Emma Thompson addressed a sprawling crowd of protestors and gave a slew of media interviews. It was April 2019,…Read More >
Normative folk psychology and decision theory (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
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 >
Why do humans reason? (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
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 >
CINNergies Reading Club – Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align?
CINNergies Reading Club Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align? 7th May 2021: 0900-1200 BST CINNergies are hosting a reading club and debate on the “Brain-Cognitive behaviour problem”. This…Read More >
