Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA)
About the centre
The Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) exists to promote and coordinate work in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, and adjacent areas. The Centre is strongly interdisciplinary in spirit, seeking to bring into contact work in philosophy and empirical research in psychology. Topics that are central to the work of members of the Centre include: consciousness, attention, perceptual experience, perceptual knowledge, agency and action explanation, memory, self-knowledge and self-consciousness, first- and second-person thought, and the development of social understanding.
The centre originated with an AHRB-funded interdisciplinary project on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness (1997-2004). Since then it has continued to host a succession of projects such as The Second Person; Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology; Perception, Rationality and Self Knowledge: and The Communicative Mind (for a full list see Past Projects).
Information about the Centre’s on-going and past activities can be found on our Events and Graduate pages.
Researchers or prospective students who wish to contact the centre should write to: n.eilan@warwick.ac.uk
Activities
WMA Talks: Throughout 2024-2025, WMA will be hosting a series of exciting and insightful talks. The activities are open to all philosophy postgraduate & undergraduate students at Warwick as well as all staff & faculty members.
MEEP meetings, talks and workshops concern issues that lie at the intersection of problems normally discussed under the headings of ‘Mind and Epistemology’, on the one hand, and ‘Ethics and Political Philosophy’, on the other.
The Warwick-Geneva-Leipzig Interdepartmental collaboration aims to foster a connection between the Philosophy Departments at these universities on subjects surrounding the philosophy of mind and psychology broadly conceived.
Projects
Apart from its ongoing activities, WMA currently hosts the projects The Communicative Mind (UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship) and Incredible Beliefs (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship).
Our past projects include interdisciplinary projects on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, Causal Understanding, the Second Person, Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology, and several others. For further details see past projects and some of the edited volumes they yielded.