<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">ISPSM 2026</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">4th Annual Online Conference</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><span data-proton-embedded="embedded-7508"></span><img alt="ispsm.jpg" class="proton-embedded" id="imageSelected0" width="165" height="190" src="cid:54181007@protonmail.com"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Abstracts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to submit an abstract for a paper or a symposium. We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in the field, including members of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">L</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">G</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(241, 194, 50);">B</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 255, 0);">T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(74, 134, 232);">Q</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">I</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(153, 0, 255);">A</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">+</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> community and those based in the global south, as part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion practices in philosophy and beyond.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Abstracts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">We are happy to invite you to submit an abstract for the 4th Annual Online Conference of the</span><a href="https://www.ispsmind.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">, which</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">will be held online on the</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> 4th-6th of November, 2026</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> (4/11/26 - 6/11/26). The schedule will be flexible, allowing for a worldwide audience across a range of time zones. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">What is the mind, and how does it work? These questions have led to centuries of philosophical and empirical investigations, and still lack definitive answers. We thus invite submissions from all disciplines that leverage insights from the use of different techniques, methodologies, and research questions to shed light on the nature and functioning of the mind.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">In this fourth web conference, we seek again to bring together many of these perspectives to build a common ground, a comprehensive and multi-scale conceptual landscape of the mind. We accept submissions from a broad range of perspectives, including - but not limited to - philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of artificial intelligence & robotics, philosophy of linguistics, philosophy of ethology, philosophy of (cognitive) anthropology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of the social sciences and consciousness studies.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">We are delighted to already have a number of excellent keynote speakers confirmed for 2026, including:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Devon Bailey</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Johannesburg, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Republic of South Africa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Louise Barrett</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Lethbridge, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Canada</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Ali Boyle</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">LSE,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> United Kingdom</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Melina Gastelum Vargas</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">UNAM</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">, Mexico</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Kirchhoff</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Wollongong, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Australia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Yukie Nagai</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Tokyo</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">, Japan</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Practical Information</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">When: 4-6 November 2026</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Where: Online</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Fees: The conference is fully online, and no fee is required</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Further Inquiries: ispsmofficial@gmail.com</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Information for submission</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts for single papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> (about 30 minutes each including Q&A) should be</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;white-space:pre-wrap">anonymized</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> PDFs of maximum 500 words, and should include references and 3-5 keywords (both excluded from the wordcount). To submit an abstract, please use the following </span><a href="https://forms.gle/8ocB89CorTANx2hJ6" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">link</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposals for symposia (2 hours including Q&A, maximum </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;white-space:pre-wrap">4</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> papers) should be PDF files between 1500 and 2000 words, excluding references and 3-5 keywords. Unlike papers, they should not be anonymized: speakers' affiliations and contacts should be included in the main text. To submit a symposium proposal, please use the following </span><a href="https://forms.gle/1PBRbnZX35YyD8vu7" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">link</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for submissions</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">: 31/07/2026</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Best meme prize</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Many scientific societies have prizes for the best paper. As an online-based society, we instead launch a contest for the best graphic meme regarding the philosophy of the sciences of the mind. We are interested in memes formed by static images + text and GIFs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The contest is open to all those who submit a paper or a symposium at the conference: to participate, simply add up to a .GIF or .JPEG file entitled "ISPSM2026 Best Meme Contest." Memes should aim to elicit a laugh and then a thought (similarly to the Ig Nobel prize) and should abide by the ISPSM code of conduct (</span><a href="https://www.ispsmind.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.ispsmind.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">). The winning meme will be selected by the participants through a vote, and hosted on the society’s homepage and social media. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizing committee </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Marco Facchin, Universiteit Antwerpen </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Valeria Becattini, IUSS Pavia</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Liberty Severs, Ruhr-Univesität Bochum, the University of Lisbon and the Konrad Lorentz Institute</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Clavel Vázquez, Jimena - Tilburg University</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Negro, Niccolò - School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Carlos Barth - Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Laura Oppi - Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">April Owens - University of Cambridge</span></p><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="protonmail_signature_block protonmail_signature_block-empty"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"></div>
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