European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions

Right now at University of Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Thomas Szanto on "The Phenomenology and Affective Politics of Non-Belonging", a new paper in progress w Alba Montes Sánchez, with a rich use of Iris Marion Young's use of asymmetrical reciprocity.

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Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!

This special issue stems from the workshop of the same title organised by Meriste and Mölder with Uku Tooming in Tartu in June 2023--as part of the yearly events for EPSSE. But Passion is open to proposals for special issues on emotion-related topics--contact the editors if you have an idea / &7

Finally, in 'Investigating the Fundamental Base of Emotion Science', Juan R. Loaiza advances a pragmatic account: scientific emotion concepts should be grounded in publicly accessible sources of evidence like cross-cultural linguistics and social norms, rather than first-person experience /6

Then, Cecilea Mun bridges different understandings of emotion in 'Navigating the Waters of Emotion with a View Toward Cooperation', showing how delineating theories of emotion along metaphysical and meta-semantic dimensions clarifies their logical implications and guides empirical research /5

In 'Constituting Emotional Phenomena—A Mach-Influenced Empiricist Perspective', Peter Zachar draws on Ernst Mach to argue that in the science of emotion, concepts and classifications partly constitute the phenomena studied through the selective choice of features from a larger set /4

Charlie Kurth challenges the assumption that emotions are classed either natural kinds or social constructions in 'Emotion, Adaptation, and Natural Kinds: A Look at Shame and Guilt'. While shame functions as a biologically hard-wired adaptation, guilt is better understood as a social construction /3

In the intro, the editors explain the guiding metaphor of the issue: emotions as 'stars' (discrete, stable entities) versus 'constellations' (interrelated, dynamic configurations). They also do a very useful lit review on the metaphysics of emotion which can be an excellent teaching resource /2

Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1

Whether you’re working on joy or jealously, affective scaffolding or injustice, compassion or cringe, send us your work!

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PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

We’ve got an amazing line up of contributors for our Passion SI on Faces of Affective Injustice!

If you want to be among them, do send us your work by the 30th September ✨

A reminder of the upcoming deadline for our Feminist Philosophy of Emotions SI, open until 1 July 2025!

Guest edited by the wonderful Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨

Please make submissions through our website: passion-journal.org/about/submis...

Sophie Goddard in action speaking about vulnerability and love.

Sophie Goddard speaking about love, vulnerability and anti-attachment drugs at @epsse.bsky.social conference in Paris!

Passion Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion Feminist Philosophy of Emotion Special Issue Call for Papers Following the excellent pre-conference workshop on Feminist...

Deadline extended to July 1!
CFP: Feminist Philosophy of Emotion
Special issue of Passion, @epsse.bsky.social co-edited with @proflaurasilva.bsky.social & Federico Lauria.
Topics: power, emotional labor, epistemic injustice, & more.
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Submission is open to all (regardless of participation in the main conference). Please note that selected speakers will be invited to include their contribution in a special issue on Emotion and Attachment in Passion -- to be announced later in the year for those who can't join in Paris!

There is still time to submit for the EPSSE pre-conference workshop--a thematic, smaller meeting normally ran by the local organisers just before the general conference. This year the topic is 'Emotions and Attachment', with a great line-up of confirmed speakers. Submit via the special email below!

Submit your work via our website passion-journal.org/about/submis...

Deadline on 1 May 2025

Blue poster with announcing the CFA on critical/feminist philosophy of emotions

Thrilled to share the call for papers for our Passion SI on Critical/Feminist Philosophy of Emotions guest edited by the amazing Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨

Join contributors Arina Pismenny, Ronald de Sousa, Laura Silva, Marie Wuth, and Denish Jaswal

People should submit to this! Look at that lineup of invited contributors....🔥

Affective Lives: Autotheoretical Experiments (Special Issue Passion) Special Issue and Workshop: “Affective Lives: Autotheoretical Experiments” (Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions) Guest Editor: Dr. Ruth Rebecca...

Full details and PDF download here:

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The deadline for submissions is 31 Jan 2026, with an online workshop planned in October 2025 to discuss works in progress. Please send your expression of interest by the end of April 2025 to R [dot] R [dot] Tietjen [at] tilburguniversity [dot] edu

Call for Papers Passion special issue
Affective Lives: Autotheoretical Experiments
Edited by Ruth Rebecca Tietjen
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🌱😤 My new article on climate anger is out with Passion, the journal of the @epsse.bsky.social! You can read it here: passion-journal.org/article/view...

We have now initiated the abstract review process for EPSSE 2025. If you sent us an abstract, look out for the confirmation email we will send you this week with a request to participate as a reviewer — and if you didn’t submit but are available to review, let us know at the.epsse@gmail.com

Deadline for EPSSE annual conference submissions tomorrow!

This week! Registration still open ✨

Less than a month left to submit to EPSSE in Paris!

We also run one of the only academic journals on the philosophy of emotion, Passion. It brings together ideas about affect and emotion from all areas of philosophy, as well as inter-disciplinary ones. It is open access and open for submissions!
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Hello! The society is now here at Bluesky. EPSSE is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the philosophical study of emotions. Every year we host a conference and a specialist workshop on emotion-related topics. This is our website: www.epsse.org #philsky #emotion #philosophy