Recent, Ongoing, and Upcoming Events
In addition to workshops and conferences associated with specific projects run by the Centre, we also organize regular public seminars, reading groups and conferences. A central objective of all such events is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers working on issues in cognitive studies.
If you would like to be added to our email list for announcements of future events please email Gerardo Viera.
If you would like to be added to our email list for announcements of future events please email Gerardo Viera.
Workshops, Conferences, & Lecture Series
- Distinguished Hang Seng Centre For Cognitive Studies Public Lecture, Nick Shea, 14 March 2025
- New Directions in Animal Cognition and Ethics, May 2024
- Beyond the Nature vs. Nurture Divide: Cognition, Evolution, and Culture Speaker Series, Spring 2023
- Cognitive Science Speaker Series, 2021-2023
- Time and Memory Workshop, July 2021
- Northern Imagination Forum, November 2019 and October 2020
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Experimental Methods for Philosophers, Spring 2019
- Natural Mechanisms: Consciousness, Cognition, and Evolution, September 2018
- Imagination Workshop, May 2018
- Mind and Society: Two Philosophical Conferences, September 2017
- Empirical Approaches to Philosophical Aesthetics, January 2017
- Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science: A Conference in Honour of Steve Stich, October 2016
- Mind Network Meeting, September 2016
- Cognitive Science in Sheffield Workshop, November 2015
- Affect: Pain, Pleasures, and Emotions, June 2015
- Knowing Minds: A Conference in Honour of George Botterill, August 2014
- ICog Inaugural Conference, November 2013
- Implicit Bias: Philosophy and Psychology, March 2013
Representative Talks
- Carrie Figdor (Iowa) “What could cognition be, if not human cognition?”, November 2020
- Manolo Martínez (Barcelona) “Pain and imperative transparency”, October 2019
- Ellen Clarke (Leeds) “On biological individuality”, May 2019
- Samir Okasha (Bristol) “Inter-temporal choices”, November 2018
- Mathieu Doucet (Waterloo) “Culpable ignorance and mental disorders”, May 2018
- Robert Briscoe (Ohio) “Pictorial representations”, April 2018
- Levi Spectre (Open U Israel) “Compartmentalised knowledge”, October 2017
- Michael Devitt (CUNY), “Millianism, descriptivism, and X-Phi”, May 2017
- Adrian Currie (Exter) “Models as tools”, October 2016
- Ian Phillips (Oxford) “Illusions and naïve realism”, April 2016
- Bence Nanay (Antwerp) “Imagination and amodal completion”, April 2016
Reading Groups
- Randy Gallistel’s Memory and the Computational Brain, Spring 2021
- Nick Shea’s Representation in Cognitive Science, Autumn 2020
- Peter Carruthers’s Human and Animal Minds, Spring 2020
- The nature of delusion, Spring 2019
- Mental content: Internalism vs externalism, Autumn 2018
- Decision making: Normative and descriptive, Autumn 2017
- Muhammad Ali Khalidi's Natural Categories and Human Kinds, Autumn 2016
- John Mikhail’s Elements of Moral Cognition, Autumn 2016
- Phenomenal consciousness, Spring 2016
- Shaun Nichols’s Sentimental Rules, Autumn 2015
- Susan Carey's The Origins of Concepts, 2014-2015
Videos
- Steve Stich Leverhulme Lectures on Moral Psychology, May 2009