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 >
philosophy
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 >
The logic of universalization guides moral judgment (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
The logic of universalization guides moral judgment, Fiery Cushman Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. His research addresses…Read More >
