Events
2026-2027
WMA Event Series
In 2026-2027, WMA will be hosting a wide range of interesting and exciting talks. We're delighted to be welcoming speakers working in a variety of areas across the philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of action, metaphysics and much more! See the schedule below for event details.
Summer Term
10th June 2027
WMA Mini-Workshop 'Practial Knowledge and Knowledge-How'
with Will Small (University of Illinois), further details t.b.a.
2025-2026
Summer Term
25th April, FAB 2.43, 10:00-18:00
Ryle event.
10.30 -11.50 Nikhil Krishnan (Cambridge University), 'Ryle Reads Austen'
12.00 - 13.20 Carlotta Pavese (Oxford University), 'Ryle on intelligence'
14.30 - 15.50 Tom Crowther (神马福利影片), 'Ryle and Aristotle'
16.20 - 17.40 Michael Kremer (University of Chicago), 'The Oxford tutorial system and Ryle鈥檚 concept of mind'
30th April, 2pm, S0.20
WMA Seminar:
Carol Rovane (Columbia University): 'Some Perplexities about Consciousness'
3rd June, 10am - 1pm, A1.11
Joint PKEP-WMA workshop 'Themes from Eckhart', with Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount), Christoph Hoerl and Tobias Keiling
4th June
WMA Seminar (in collaboration with The Communicative Mind Project):
Dorit Bar-On (University of Connecticut) - 'Four Milestones in the Evolution of Human Pragmatic Communication' - 4pm - 6pm (S0.20)
Spring Term
19th January
WMA Party! 6pm @ The Graduate Room, Dirty Duck. Please RSVP: wma@warwick.ac.uk.
14th-15th February, MS.04 Zeeman Building
MindGrad 2026. Keynote speakers: Helen Steward (Leeds), Jessie Munton (Cambridge), and Rory Madden (UCL).
11th March, 2pm, R0.04
WMA Seminar:
Seishu Nishimura (Shiga University, Japan): 'Episodic memory: A centred possible worlds account'
12th-13th March
Workshop: Self-awareness and Intersubjectivity
Day 1:12 March 2026, Scarman, Space 11
13.30 - 14.50 Lucy O鈥橞rien (University College London): "Reflection on One鈥檚 Interpersonal Self-Consciousness"
15.00 - 16.20 Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago): "From Other Selves to Intersubjectivity"
16.20- 16.50 Tea & Coffee
16.50 - 18.10 Naomi Eilan (神马福利影片): 鈥淪ubjective, intersubjective, objective: On the role of joint attention鈥�
Dinner
Day 2: 13 March 2026, Wolfson Research Exchange, Main Library.
9.30 - 10.50 Henrike Moll (University of Southern California): 鈥淭he intersubjective basis of identity: The case of dissociation鈥�
10.50- 11.10 Tea & Coffee
11.10 -12.30 Richard Gipps (Oxford University): 鈥淲hat is superstition? Confusions of self-self, self-world, and self-other relating鈥�
12.30 - 13.30 lunch
13.30 - 14.50 Eliza Little (神马福利影片): "Literary knowledge and intersubjectivity"
15.00 - 16.20 Johannes Roessler (神马福利影片): 鈥淛oint attention and perceptual knowledge鈥�
16.20 Tea & Coffee
25th March, MB0.08, 14:00-18:30
Workshop: When Knowledge Isn't Power
2.00 鈥� 2.15 Intro & welcome: Chenwei Nie
2.15 - 3.15 Heather Widdows (Warwick) and Fiona MacCallum (Psychology, Warwick): "Knowing in Selfie Culture"
3.15 - 3.45 Coffee
3.45 - 4.45 Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford): TBC
4.45 鈥� 5.00 Comfort break
5.00 鈥� 6.00 Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Birmingham): "The Importance of Feeling for Knowing"
6.00鈥� 6.30 Concluding reflections: Quassim Cassam
Autumn Term
Wednesday, 22nd October (Week 3), S0.11, 14:05 - 15:50
WMA Seminar:
Michelle Liu (Monash), 'Mental Imagery and Harmful Language'.
Wednesday, 12th November - Thursday, 13th November (Week 6)
Warwick-Geneva-Leipzig Collaboration - Fourth Meeting
Day 1: S0.11
10:00-11:30: Eliza Little (Warwick) - Beauvoir鈥檚 Practical Proof of Other Minds
11:30-13:00: Ates Metin (Warwick) - Is Rule-Following Social?
14:00-15:30: Jana Baum & Antonia Grunert (Leipzig) - An 鈥業nvestigation of the Mind, not of Minds鈥�?
Day 2: Wolfson Research Exchange
10:00-11:30: Edgard Darrobers (Geneva) - Being Moved and Responsibility
11:30-13:00: Christoph Hoerl (Warwick) - Episodic Memory, the Self, and Time
Friday, 14th November (Week 6), 11am-5:30pm, S0.11 (Social Sciences)
Workshop 'Temporal Experience'
11:00 - 12:00: Julian Bacharach (Trinity College Dublin): 'On the very idea of a temporal perspective'
12:00 - 13:00: Tom Crowther (Warwick): 'The temporal properties of experience in the ordinary biographical sense'
14:00 - 15:00: Louise Richardson (York): 'Grief and the authenticity of memory'
15:00 - 16:00: Jack Shardlow (Liverpool): 'Temporal experience: A matter of perspective?'
16:30 - 17:30: Matthew Ratcliffe (York): 'Haunting, time, and self: Some phenomenological reflections'
2024-2025
Summer Term
Weds. 7th May (Week 3), Wolfson Research Exchange (Library), 14:00-18:00
MEEP Mini-Workshop: "Philosophy of Barbarism"
14:00 - 15:45 Maria Boletsi (Leiden)
16:15 - 18:00 Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
Weds. 28th May (Week 6), MB0.07, 11:00-18:00
Special Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness
To register, please email wma@warwick.ac.uk with your name and affiliation. Further details available at this link. Featuring:
Maria Alvarez (KCL)
Andrew Huddleston (Warwick)
Tim Lewens (Cambridge)
Guy Longworth (Warwick)
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Mark Philp (Warwick)
Alexander Prescott (Oxford)
Johannes Roessler (Warwick)
Weds. 25th June (Week 10), S0.19, 16:00 - 19:00
WMA Mini-Workshop: "Delusions"
16:00 - 17:30: Matthew Parrott (Oxford)
17:45 - 19:00: Johannes Roessler (Warwick)
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Spring Term
Weds. 22nd Jan. (Week 3), S0.19, 14:00-19:00
WMA Workshop: "Experience and Rationality"
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鈥傗�傗�傗�傗��15:45 - 17:15 Guy Longworth (Warwick) - 鈥淧erception's Authority鈥�
鈥傗�傗�傗�傗��17:30 - 19:00 Janset 脰z眉n 脟etinkaya (Nottingham) - "Akrasia and Self-Deception in Aristotle"
Friday 14th Feb (Week 6), A1.05, 11:00-18:00
MEEP Workshop: "Autobiographical Memory"
With talks from Daniel Vanello (UCL), Anthony Marcel & Lia Kvavilashvili (Hertfordshire), Christoph Hoerl (Warwick), Thomas Crowther (Warwick), and Naomi Eilan (Warwick). Click here for full schedule and access to pre-read papers.
Weds. 19th Feb. (Week 7), S0.21, 14:30-18:00
MEEP Internal Mini-workshop:
14.30-15.45: Eliza Little: 'Other Minds, Practical Reason and McDowell's Heterodox Reading'.
15.45-16.15: Tea/coffee
Responses:
16.15-17.00: Guy Longworth: 'Practical Knowledge of Other Minds.'
17.00-17.45: Naomi Eilan: 'Self-consciousness and Objectivity: On the Role of Other Minds'
Weds. 5th March (Week 9), S0.20, 12:30-14:00
CANCELLED
Sonia Sedivy (Toronto) - "Aesthetic Properties: Heterogenous, Historical and Hard to Explain"
Fri. 14th March (Week 10), A0.23, 16:00-18:00
WMA Seminar:
Mitch Green (Connecticut) - "The Cultural Evolution of Speech Act Norms"
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Autumn Term
Thurs. 10th Oct. (Week 2), A0.23, 16:00-18:00
WMA Seminar:
Roberta Locatelli (T眉bingen/CIN) - "Understanding ADHD and Bridging the Gap Between the Neurodiversity Model and the Disorder Model"
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Weds. 16th Oct. (Week 3) S0.20, 14:30 - 18:00
WMA Mini-Workshop: "Self-Identification and Self-Alienation"
鈥傗�傗�傗�傗�傗��14:30 - 16:00 Craig French (Nottingham) - "Experiences of Derealization: A Na茂ve Realist Account"
鈥傗�傗�傗�傗�傗��16:15 - 17:45 Joe Cunningham (Nottingham) - "What is the Deep Self?"
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Weds. 13th Nov. (Week 7), S0.20, 14:30 - 18:00
WMA Mini-Workshop: "Address"
鈥傗�傗�傗�傗��14:30 - 16:00 Richard Moore (Warwick) - "Three Ways of Addressing Others"
鈥傗�傗�傗�傗��16:15 - 17:45 Naomi Eilan (Warwick) - "Address and The Second Person"
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Weds. 27th Nov. (Week 9), The Cowling Room (S2.77), 12:30-14:00
WMA Seminar:
Giulia Martina (Dortmund) - "Joint Attention to Flavour"
Response: Naomi Eilan (Warwick)
Mon. 9th Dec. (Week 11), LIB2, 16:00-18:00
WMA Seminar on Psycholinguistics :
Paula Rubio Fernandez (Oslo) - TBC
WMA Social Events
As well as informal drinks after our regular schedule of events, we also organise dedicated social events for graduates and faculty within the WMA. See below for details.
Thursday. 28st Nov. (Week 8), The Dirty Duck Graduate Space, 18:00-21:00
WMA Party! Please join us for a drink and dinner to celebrate making it most of the way through term. If you'd like to join,