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MindGrad is a long-established and well-respected graduate conference held annually at the 91¸£Àû under the auspices of the 91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû’s philosophy department.

The conference will be held in person on the weekend of the 14th-15th of February 2026.

Registration is now open. to register follow .

2026 Conference Programme

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: Nadine Elzein & Christoph Hoerl

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