EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY CALL FOR PAPERS 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Utrecht University, Netherlands 30th June – 3rd July, 2026 https://espp2026.sites.uu.nl/ Keynote speakers: - Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh) on the biological basis of cognition - Isabelle Dautriche (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université) on conceptual operations before and outside language - Ira Noveck (CNRS, Université de Paris) on logical terms and figurative uses - Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University) on mindshaping Each keynote talk will be followed by a related interdisciplinary symposium. Call for Submissions The Society invites the submission of papers, posters and symposia. Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists. If you have any questions, contact us by writing an email to espp2026(a)gmail.com. <espp2026(a)gmail.com> Submission instructions The deadline for all submissions is the 2nd of February 2026. Submissions should be made online via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=espp2026 Papers should be designed to be presentable within 20 minutes (for a total 30-minute session). Submissions should consist of an abstract of up to 1000 words (excluding bibliography). If required, an additional page of tables and/or graphs may be included. Please note that, while 1000 words is the maximum, shorter abstracts are perfectly acceptable. For example, we find that abstracts for papers which will report experimental studies can often convey the required information in 500 words. A submission for a poster presentation should consist of a 500-word abstract. When submitting your paper or poster online, please first indicate the primary discipline of your paper (philosophy, psychology, or linguistics) and whether your submission is intended as a paper or a poster. Submitted papers may also be considered for presentation as a poster if space constraints prevent acceptance as a paper or if the submission is thought more suitable for presentation as a poster. All paper and poster submissions (whether abstracts or full papers) should be in .doc or PDF-format and should be properly anonymized in order to allow for blind refereeing. Each person may only present one paper. This includes any paper that forms part of a submitted symposium. If you submit multiple papers and more than one is accepted, you will be asked to choose which you would like to present. Submitted symposia are distinct from the invited symposia attached to keynote talks, and may be on any topic relevant to the ESPP. They are allocated a two-hour slot and consist of a set of four linked papers on a common theme or three linked papers with an introduction. In general, symposia should include perspectives from at least two of the three disciplines represented in the society (philosophy, psychology and linguistics), and they should not have exclusively male speakersIf there are specific reasons for not adhering to these norms in your proposed symposium, please explain this in your submission. Submissions should be made by symposium organizers (not speakers). When submitting a symposium proposal online, your submissions should include the following three elements in a single PDF: (1) A list of 3 or 4 speakers which indicates representation of at least two disciplines (individual speakers may also represent multiple disciplines). (2) A general abstract of up to 500 words, laying out the topics to be addressed and indicating connections among the talks (3) Individual abstracts of up to 500 words and provisional titles for each talk. Please do not submit more than one PDF file per symposium. General Aim The aim of the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology is to promote interaction between philosophers, psychologists and linguists on issues of common concern. Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and biologists are encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and clinical work that they judge to have philosophical significance; and philosophers are encouraged to engage with the fundamental issues addressed by and arising out of such work. In recent years ESPP sessions have covered such topics as theory of mind, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, introspection and self-report, emotion, perception, early numerical cognition, spatial concepts, infants’ understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, comparative cognition, minimalism in linguistic theory, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results. Programme Committee Philosophy: James Stazicker, King’s College London Psychology: Dora Kampis, University of Copenhagen Linguistics: Alex Lorson, University of Groningen Programme assistant: Chloe Dow, King’s College London Local Organisers Uwe Peters, Utrecht University Annemarie Kalis, Utrecht University Andrea Bertazzoli, Utrecht University