MindGrad 2026

MindGrad is a long-established and well-respected graduate conference held annually at the University of Warwick under the auspices of the Warwick Mind & Action Research Centre. 2026 will mark an important place in MindGrad’s history by marking its 20th instalment. The 20th anniversary also happily follows the 60th birthday of Warwick’s philosophy department. The conference will be open-themed and held in person on the weekend of the 14th-15th of February 2026.

To celebrate MindGrad’s 20th anniversary, we are honoured to welcome Professor Helen Steward (Leeds), Dr Jessie Munton (Cambridge), and Dr Rory Madden (UCL).

Schedule:

Saturday 14th February

9:30 – 9:55               Arrival and tea/coffee

9:55 – 10:00             Introduction to the conference

10:00 – 11:30           Jessie Munton (Cambridge): Collective Forgetting

                               Response: Emily Boocock

11:30 – 11:45                     Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15           Lottie Pike (KCL):

‘Whether the mind of one creature can perceive the mind of another creature’: Margaret Cavendish on the perceptibility of mental states

                               Response: Timothy Stoll

13:15 – 14:15                     Lunch

14:15 – 15:45           Michiel Esseling (Antwerp):

Practical knowledge as pre-reflective awareness

                               Response: Lucy Campbell

15:45 – 16:00                     Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30           Rory Madden (UCL): A Temporal Approach to Phenomenal Unity

                               Response: Emma Clinton

19:00                       Conference dinner

Sunday 15th February

9:00 – 9:30               Arrival and tea/coffee

9:30 – 11:00             Eve Poirer (Oxford): What can I intend to do?

                               Response: Guy Longworth

11:00 – 11:15                     Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45           Andrew Ma (Cambridge): Having the courage of one’s intentions

                               Response: Christoph Hoerl & Nadine Elzein

12:45 – 13:45                     Lunch

13:45 – 15:15           Jacob Mortimer (Oxford):

Who is reborn? The origin of a conceptual tension in Buddhist Philosophy

                               Response: Thomas Crowther

15:15 – 15:30                     Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00          Helen Steward (Leeds): Who are the Agents?

                               Response: Chris Hall

17:00 Conference close