EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

CALL FOR PAPERS

32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP)

Warsaw, Poland

September 2-5, 2025

Conference Website

Keynote Speakers

Emma Borg, Cameron Buckner, Nora Newcombe, Petra Schumacher

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 espp2025@gmail.com.

Travel scholarships for PhD Students

Thanks to support from IFiS/GSSR, via the NAWA grant PROM Short-term academic exchange (in Polish, PROM- Krótkookresowa wymiana akademicka; BPI/PRO/2024/1/00020/DEC/1), we can award up to 10 travel grants for PhD students at universities outside Poland to attend the conference and present a talk or poster. Please see the conference website for the Call for Applications for these scholarships, which promotes equal opportunity for people with disabilities, and adequate gender representation. Successful applications will be selected on the basis of: (i) NAWA PROM’s eligibility rules (see the Call for Applications); (ii) quality of the proposed talk or poster, as judged by the ESPP expert reviewers’ report on the anonymised abstract you submit when applying to speak at the conference.

Submission instructions for papers, posters and symposia

The deadline for all submissions is 3^rd March 2025. Submissions should be made online via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espp2025

Papers should be designed to be presentable within 20 minutes (for a total 30 minutes session). Submissions should consist of a long abstract of up to 1000 words (excluding bibliography). If required, an additional page of tables and/or graphs may be included. 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 present only one paper during the conference’s parallel sessions, though you may be a co-author of more than one paper. If you submit multiple single-authored papers only one will be accepted. This includes contributions to submitted symposia.

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. Symposia should include perspectives from at least two of the three disciplines represented in the society (philosophy, psychology and linguistics). 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 and psychologists 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 (Kings College London)

Psychology: Dora Kampis (University of Copenhagen)

Linguistics: Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh)

Programme assistant: Chloe Dow (University of Stirling)

Main Local Organiser

Dr hab. Marcin Miłkowski, prof. (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology)

Local organizing team

Dr. Przemysław R. Nowakowski (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology)

Dr. Krystian Bogucki (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology)

Anna Jędraszkiewicz (University of Warsaw)

Wiktor Rorot (University of Warsaw)

Wiktor Lachowski (Graduate School for Social Research)

Jakub Matyja (Graduate School for Social Research)

Natalia Skipietrow (IFiS PAN)