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Ruth Byrne gave a talk on the mental representations of counterfactual conditionals at the EPS Science of Regret meeting organised by Sarah Beck, Aidan Feeney and Teresa McCormack at the University of Birmingham Feb 12-13th 2016. Other speakers included Neal … Continue reading →

Sabrina Haimovici, Raluca Briazu and Ruth Byrne will participate in the EPS Science of Regret meeting in Birmingham University Feb 12th and 13th 2016.

  A meeting on ‘Counterfactual thinking in causality, emotion, communication, and behaviour’ will be held on June 1st to 4th 2016  in Aix-en-Provence, France. The meeting is organized by Mauro Bertolotti (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), Ruth Byrne (Trinity College … Continue reading →

Aidan Feeney, Queen’s University Belfast, will give a lab talk ‘Between reasoning and semantic cognition: A hybrid account of category-based induction?’ on Tuesday December 1st 2015.

The Instituto Cervantes held the Irish Spanish Latin American literary festival on October 2nd-4th 2015.  It included a discussion panel on ‘Remembering and Forgetting’ which included the Argentinian author Carlos Gamerro and the Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic as well as … Continue reading →

Members of the lab gave talks at the London Reasoning Workshop in Birkbeck University on 6th and 7th August 2015: Celia Rasga, Cristina Quelhas, and Ruth Byrne Autistic children’s reasoning: counterfactual and false-belief inferences about reasons for actions Marta Couto, … Continue reading →

Members of the lab will give presentations at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology’s 19th conference in Cyprus in September: 1. Mary Parkinson and Ruth Byrne ‘Counterfactual and semifactual alternatives in moral judgments about failed attempts to harm’ 2. Shane … Continue reading →

The Association for Psychological Science held its annual conference in New York on May 21st-24th. Research by members of the group featured in two symposia: CONDITIONAL REASONING Chair: Ruth Byrne 1. Ruth Byrne,  Orlando Espino Trinity College Dublin, University of … Continue reading →

The European Observatory for the New Human Condition held its second executive forum in Copenhagen on 27th and 28th April at the Danish Academy for the Sciences and Letters, attended by Ruth Byrne. For more information on the initiative, see … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne gave two talks in Imola and Bologna, Italy on March 16th and March 17th 2015: 1. ‘The Rational Imagination’ 5.45pm Thursday 16th April 2015 BIM Biblioteca Comunale di Imola, Imola 2. ‘Counterfactual Thoughts: Reasoning and Imagination’ 11am Friday … Continue reading →