Aims of the ESPPPRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 2003 ANNUAL MEETING
TORINO, ITALY, 9-12 JULY 2003
The aim of the Society 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 spatial concepts, simulation theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, emotion, perception, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, connectionism, hypnotism, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results.
Invited Speakers
Axel Cleeremans, Brussels UniversityRobert Stalnaker, MIT
Deirdre Wilson, UCL
Richard Wollheim, Berkeley
Confirmed Invited Symposia include:
JOINT ATTENTION convened by Johannes Roessler, WarwickEMOTIONAL REASON convened by Sabine Doering, Essen & Thomas Goschke, Dresden
MINIMALISM IN LINGUISTICS convened by David Adger, QMW London
SELF-REPORT & INTROSPECTION convened by Alvin Goldman, Rutgers
The Society invites submitted papers and posters for this meeting. Submitted papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists.
Papers should not exceed a length of 20 minutes (about 8 double-spaced pages) for a total 30 minute session.
Submissions may be by abstract but in the case of philosophical submissions a full paper is preferred.
This year the Society encourages submission of symposia topics - the convenor should submit a brief (1000 word) description of the symposium topic together with the names of suggested participants (a symposium is expected to contain 3 or a maximum of 4 speakers in distinct fields). Potential convenors should email the description and list of speakers directly to one of the programme chairs by 28 February 2003.
There will also be poster presentations.
A submission for a poster presentation should consist of a 500-word abstract. Submitted papers may also be considered for presentation as posters.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF SYMPOSIA TOPICS is 28 FEBRUARY, 2003
Successful applications will be asked to confirm speakers for their session by 7 MAY 2003.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND POSTERS is 30 APRIL, 2003. Please send an electronic version (in PDF, PS or MS Word format) to any ONE of the programme chairs.
Submission of applications can also be made by online submission at http://www.eurospp.org/2003/submission.html
Dr Richard Breheny
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge,
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1QA, UK
email: reb35@cam.ac.uk
Dr Zoltan Dienes
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
School of Biological Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
email: dienes@biols.susx.ac.uk
Professor Michael Martin,
Dept of Philosophy
UCL
LONDON WC1E 6BT, UK
email: michael.martin@ucl.ac.uk