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