European Society for Philosophy and Psychology - Deadline: April 15, 2009

 

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

17th ANNUAL MEETING: CEU Budapest, Hungary, August 27-30th 2009

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 15th April 2009.

ESPP Webpage: www.eurospp.org

Conference Webpage: http://web.ceu.hu/phil/espp09/

 

Invited speakers include:

Dare Baldwin (University of Oregon)

Leonard Talmy (SUNY at Buffalo)

Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma) 

 

Invited symposium organizers include:

Loiuse Röska-Hardy – Rational Imitation

Nick Shea and Tim Bayne – Consciousness in Vegetative State Patients

Pierre Jacob – The Dissociation Between the Two Visual Systems

The Society invites submitted papers, posters and symposia for this meeting. 

 

Previous topics covered at ESPP include spatial concepts, emotion, perception, simulation theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, causal understanding, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, connectionism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results.

 

See www.eurospp.org  for full details of electronic submission requirements. Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists.

 

Submissions of papers and posters must include an abstract of  250 words maximum, in addition to a 750 word summary (psychology and linguistics) or a short paper (philosophy)  They have to be submitted electronically through the ESPP web page www.eurospp.org by April 15, 2009.

 

Symposium submissions should consist of a 250 word description and a list of speakers and should be sent by the potential convenor to the appropriate programme chair by March 15, 2009.

 

We particularly welcome POSTER submissions.  Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as at designated poster sessions.  The first author of each accepted poster (and who does not also present a paper) will get free ESPP membership for 2009.

 

Programme chairs:

Philosophy: Matt Nudds, U. Edinburgh, UK. matthew.nudds@ed.ac.uk

 

Psychology: Sarah Beck, U. Birmingham, UK. s.r.beck@bham.ac.uk

 

Linguistics: Peter Svenonius, U. Tromsoe, Norway. Peter.Svenonius@hum.uit.no