You can listen to Centre Director, Emma Borg, discussing what makes us human with Anne Diamond on BBC Radio Berkshire (starts at 01:07:00): BBC Radio Berkshire – Anne Diamnond

CCR will host a major AHRC funded international network between the University of Reading and Peking University, China, during 2014-2016, on the topic of ‘Pervasive context-sensitivity in natural language’. The project will look at the extent of context-sensitivity in language, what theoretical models are best suited to accommodating  context-sensitivity, the effect of  context-sensitivity on the understanding of those with cognitive impairments, and the relationship between artificial linguistic modelling and context-sensitivity. Further details will follow on this site, but if you are interested in being involved in the project please email Emma Borg (e.g.n.borg@reading.ac.uk).

CCR is delighted to announce that it has received funding from the John Templeton Foundation to run a research cluster on the above topic. More details are available at:

Intellectual Humility

The conference programme is now available:

Semantics_Science_programme

CCR Director, Prof. Emma Borg, has been interviewed for the popular ‘Philosophy Bites’ podcast series. Her interview on ‘Language and Context’ can be heard at:

http://philosophybites.com/2014/01/emma-borg-on-language-and-context.html

(In the nine days since its release this podcast has been downloaded nearly 30,000 times.)

Offered by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership

Our Doctoral Training Partnership will be offering a considerable number of AHRC studentships in Philosophy this year. Successful applicants for these studentships will have at least two research supervisors, and these will often be at different universities within this Doctoral Training Partnership. Students will be affiliated with the first supervisor’s university. The second supervisor is allowed to be in a discipline other than Philosophy. The Partnership is strong in many different areas of Philosophy and in inter-disciplinary research that includes Philosophy. Applications are welcome in virtually any area of Philosophy and in a wide array of inter-disciplinary investigations in which Philosophy plays a large part.

For further information, see:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/pg-research/phil-pgrabout.aspx

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/

http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/contactsandpeople/academic/philosophy.html

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/index.page

http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/postgraduate/phd/

Philosopher Jason Stanley (Yale) and neurologist John Krakauer (John Hopkins) offer their take on the relationship between philosophy and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on the case of HM:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/is-the-dumb-jock-really-a-nerd/?_r=0

An interesting documentary series about the South London and Maudlsey NHS Foundation Trust, starts Thursday 31-Oct at 9pm on Channel 4 with “Anxiety”.

http://www.slam.nhs.uk/media/bedlam-on-c4