EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) 

Utrecht University, Netherlands 

June 30th – July 3rd, 2026 

 https://espp2026.sites.uu.nl/ 

Keynote speakers and invited symposiasts will include Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University), Ira Noveck (CNRS), Diana Mazzarella (University of Neuchâtel); more to follow. 

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@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.  

Symposia 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 speakers. If 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 

Main Local Organisers 

Uwe Peters, Utrecht University 

Local organizing team 

Annemarie Kalis, Utrecht University 

Andrea Bertazzoli, Utrecht University