ESPP 2025 Conference Programme

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Tuesday 2nd of September

08:00

Registration

09:00

Keynote address by Petra Schumacher, 'Meaning extensions and adaptation in real-time'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
10:15

Coffee

10:45

Plenary symposium led by Vera Demberg, with Margreet Vogelzang and Maria Spychalska: 'Individual Differences in Semantic and Pragmatic Processing'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
13:00

Lunch

14:30

Parallel sessions

Symposium: Down to Earth Imagining

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: Christopher Gauker

Metaphysics of Perceptual Experience

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: James Stazicker

Quantifiers, Plurals & Numbers

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Dora Kampis

Metacognition

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Teresa McCormack

Blame & the Knobe Effect

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Wojciech Mamak
14:30
Monika Dunin-Kozicka, Julia Langkau, Zuzanna Rucińska and Piotr Kozak
14:30
Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen and Paul Engelhardt: Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of Direct and Indirect Realism, and why they matter
14:30
Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Spychalska, Oliver Bott, Fabian Schlotterbeck and Maria Aloni: How does the brain process zero models?
14:30
Adrian Ziółkowski and Maciej Tarnowski: The Knobe Effect tripping over a rock? (Epistemic) Side-Effect Effect for unaware agents and inverse (Epistemic) Side-Effect Effect for non-human protagonists
15:00
Giorgio Mazzullo: Naive Realist Monism
15:00
Maria Spychalska, Ludmila Reimer and Peter Hagoort: Speaker’s perspective and the processing of quantifiers: combing virtual reality and EEG in a language-learning communication game with AI.
15:00
Marlene M. Meyer, Marina Proft and Hannes Rakoczy: Metacognition, modal reasoning and curiosity: The relation between representing uncertainty and making rational choices
15:00
Katarina Kovacevic, Jonathan Kominsky, Francesca Bonalumi and Christophe Heintz: Epistemic counterfactual interventions in responsibility ascription
15:30
Paweł Zięba: Martin on diaphaneity
15:30
Claire Rong: Plurality in Mandarin Chinese and typicality effects
15:30
Natalie Bleijlevens and Tanya Behne: How young children learn words under uncertainty
15:30
Yaseen Ismail, Sifana Sohail and Yarrow Dunham: Contextualising blame: How does historicist blame attribution interact with intergroup beliefs to influence racial bias?
16:00
Assaf Weksler: Criterion Shifts and the Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
16:00
Hamza Naseer: Amodal Completion and the Number Sense
16:00
Krzysztof Sękowski and Adrian Ziółkowski: Even More Conflicting Intuitions

Symposium: Down to Earth Imagining

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
  • 14:30
    Monika Dunin-Kozicka, Julia Langkau, Zuzanna Rucińska and Piotr Kozak

Metaphysics of Perceptual Experience

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Quantifiers, Plurals & Numbers

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Metacognition

Room 232 (232)

Blame & the Knobe Effect

Room 154 (154)
16:30

Coffee

17:00

Parallel sessions

Agency

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: Joshua Shepherd

Akrasia & Self-Control

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Jakub Matyja

Communicating the Facts

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Chris Cummins

Affect

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Eugen Fischer

Functional Analysis & Mechanisms

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Marcin Miłkowski
17:00
Nicholas Shea: The ‘Not by a Part’ Condition on Agency is Not Just About Control
17:00
Giulia Santelli: Akrasia, Addiction, and the Arbitration Model: A Computational Approach to Weakness of Will
17:00
Masaya Sato: Causal distortion in the statement account on explicit performatives
17:00
Morgan Moyer, Anouch Bourmayan, Isidora Stojanovic and Brent Strickland: Affective X conceptual information in the battle for linguistic meaning
17:00
Jacopo Colelli: Phenomenological Functional Analysis and the Missing Theory Problem in Cognitive Science
17:30
Michał Barcz: What Slips Can Tell Us About Agency
17:30
Roberta Colonna Dahlman and Joost van de Weijer: Factivity and Prosody
17:30
Emilie Jeanneret, Gökhan Gönül and Fabrice Clément: Becoming a member: The role of affective markers in deontic social learning
17:30
Johan Heemskerk: maxMI: An Informational Teleosemantic Theory for Mechanistic Explanation
18:00
Leonie Baumann, Lydia Paulin Schidelko, Marina Proft, Tanya Behne and Hannes Rakoczy: Can a focus on agentive modality reveal modal reasoning competences in 3- and 4-year-olds?
18:00
Anssi Bwalya, Polaris Koi, Nicolas Chevalier and Hugh Rabagliati: Fixed and Limited: Lay Beliefs About Self-Control and ADHD
18:00
Grzegorz Gaszczyk: On the Informative Function of Assertoric Communication
18:00
Kris Goffin: Biased Fear: A structural account
18:00
Marko Jurjako: The Costs and Benefits of Being a Pluralist About the Interface Problem

Agency

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)

Akrasia & Self-Control

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Communicating the Facts

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Affect

Room 232 (232)

Functional Analysis & Mechanisms

Room 154 (154)
18:30

Poster madness (brief introductions of posters)

19:30

Reception

Wednesday 3rd of September

09:00

Keynote address by Emma Borg, 'Do we do what we do for the reasons we have?'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
Session Chair: James Stazicker
10:15

Coffee

10:45

Plenary symposium led by Eric Mandelbaum, with Benedek Kurdi, Liuba Papeo and Barbara Pomiechowska, 'The Underintellectualization of Everyday Life'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
13:00

Lunch / ESPP Committee Meeting

14:30

Parallel sessions

Symposium: Bridges between modal cognition and episodic simulation

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: Christoph Hoerl

Polysemy & Communication

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Maria Spychalska

Psychotherapy & Psychiatry

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Przemysław Nowakowski

Creativity

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Thor Grünbaum

Mind Reading

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Richard Moore

Perceptual Contents

Room 161 (161)
Chair: Błażej Skrzypulec
14:30
Nicolas Navarre, Tadeg Quillien, Johannes Mahr, Jay Richardson, Ariel Gonçalves and Kevin O'Neill
14:30
Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz, Jake Quilty-Dunn, Eric Mandelbaum and Spencer Caplan: Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations
14:30
Stefan Rinner, Lars Dänzer and Eugenia Kulakova: The Therapeutic Game
14:30
Louise Röska-Hardy: Are Large Language Models creative?
14:30
Benjamin Claessens: Getting to the Point: A Theory of Purposive Inference
14:30
Donald Oxtoby: Does Perceptual Recognition Require Judgment?
15:00
Suaad Alhelou and Markus Werning: Exploring Sense Shifts and Abstractness in Co-Predication: An EEG Study of Polysemous Nouns
15:00
Elena Popa: Context and Culture in Psychotherapy: Lessons from the Friendship Bench Intervention
15:00
Joshua Shepherd: Does cognitive flexibility support creativity?
15:00
Robert Lee, Ian Apperly, Rory Devine and Sanne Van Der Kleij: Developing a reliable and valid measure of mindreading for adults advances our understanding of how mindreading continues to vary beyond childhood.
15:00
Max Minden Ribeiro: Manifest Dependence and the Attitude-Content Framework
15:30
Robyn Carston: The Myth of a Common Core Meaning
15:30
Urte Laukaityte: Gentle medicine revisited
15:30
Johannes Brandl: Understanding False Beliefs as a Stimulus for Creative Thinking
15:30
Ian Apperly, Rory Devine and Stephen Butterfill: Mindreading is an Asynchronous Joint Activity: Theory of Mind performance, and individual differences.
15:30
Paweł Grad: Presentational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience
16:00
Victor Verdejo and Joost Joosten: On the explanatory significance of intransitive coordination
16:00
Ewa Grzeszczak: Psychiatric categories as natural kinds – is the application of HPC to psychiatry worth it?
16:00
Andrea Rivadulla-Duró: Creative transitions
16:00
Emma Otterski: Mindreading, power, and social status

Symposium: Bridges between modal cognition and episodic simulation

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
  • 14:30
    Nicolas Navarre, Tadeg Quillien, Johannes Mahr, Jay Richardson, Ariel Gonçalves and Kevin O'Neill

Polysemy & Communication

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Psychotherapy & Psychiatry

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Creativity

Room 232 (232)

Mind Reading

Room 154 (154)

Perceptual Contents

Room 161 (161)
16:30

Coffee and posters

17:00

Parallel sessions

Symposium: Culture of Accountability

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: James Stazicker

Modal Cognition & Problem Solving

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Hannes Rakoczy

Methodology

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Barbara Pomiechowska

Self-Knowledge

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Sophie Keeling

Temporal Consciousness

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Max Minden Ribeiro

Subjective Experience

Room 161 (161)
Chair: Wiktor Lachowski
17:00
Preston Stovall, Richard Moore and Cathal O'Madagain
17:00
Sorea Karimi, Leonie Baumann, Marina Proft, Hannes Rakoczy and Tanya Behne: Is Young Children‘s Early Modal Reasoning Competence Reflected in Their Understanding of Possibility And Necessity Modals?
17:00
Mariusz Maziarz: When is a replication attempt successful?
17:00
J.P. Grodniewicz and Anna Urbanek: Autistic masking, neurotypical mindshaping, and self-understanding
17:00
Christoph Hoerl: Perspective-taking in space and time: on the nature of episodic memory
17:00
Sofia Pedrini and Markus Werning: Mnemic Justification and the Sense of Reality
17:30
Hande Melis Altunay, Laura Ziemann, Nora Swaboda and Azzurra Ruggeri: Two-and three-year-olds adapt their decisions to the probability structure of the task
17:30
Thor Grünbaum and Frederik Andersen: Replication and Theory: Does theory matter to replication rates in psychological science?
17:30
Chiara Brozzo: The epistemically transformative import of personal transformation
17:30
Rebecca Dreier: Episodic-like Memory without Consciousness?
17:30
Peter Slezak: Who is the Spectator in the Cartesian Theater?
18:00
Niklas Dahl: From Belief Change to Modality
18:00
Päivi Seppälä: The assumption of direct applicability in social psychology and its consequences: the case of implicit bias
18:00
Christian Carbonell: Practical knowledge, paralysis, and deafferentation
18:00
Paweł Gładziejewski: Non-ordinary temporal phenomenology and the feeling of the flow of time
18:00
Jakub Mihálik: Two Challenges For the Acquaintance-Based Conception of Inner Awareness
18:30
Sarah R Beck, Jennifer A D Colbourne, Antonio J Osuna-Mascaró and Alice M I Auerspergg: The development of human children’s innovative problem solving with multiple tools.
18:30
Wendy Higgins: Rethinking psychological measurement validity
18:30
Amelia Woods: How Might Predictive Processing Account for The Over-Prevalence of PTSD in the Autistic Population? A case for stronger bottom-up approaches
18:30
Daniele Cassaghi: The Patchy Specious Present
18:30
Maria Fedorova: The Self Reimagined on Psychedelics

Symposium: Culture of Accountability

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
  • 17:00
    Preston Stovall, Richard Moore and Cathal O'Madagain

Modal Cognition & Problem Solving

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Methodology

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Self-Knowledge

Room 232 (232)

Temporal Consciousness

Room 154 (154)

Subjective Experience

Room 161 (161)
19:00

End of session

Thursday 4th of September

09:00

Keynote address by Nora Newcombe, 'Cognitive Maps & Mental Representation'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
Session Chair: Dora Kampis
10:15

Coffee

10:45

Plenary symposium led by Roberto Casati, with Pablo Fernandez Velasco and Misun Kim: 'Maps, Cognition & Representation'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
13:00

Lunch

14:30

Parallel sessions

Symposium: Imagistic Cognition

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: James Stazicker

Spatial Cognition

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Victor Verdejo

Memory

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Sarah Beck

Content Determination

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Tadeusz Ciecierski

Thinking & Worrying

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Joshua Shepherd

Concepts & Propositional Attitudes

Room 161 (161)
Chair: Robyn Carston
14:30
Roland Fleming, Yaniv Morgenstern, Kevin Lande and Christopher Gauker
14:30
Kresimir Durdevic: Cartographic Thinking -- Specifying an Alternative Representational Format
14:30
Juan F. Álvarez: Memory and imagination: toward discontinuist simulationism
14:30
Tomasz Szubart: What Are Musical Emotions? A Teleosemantic Approach
14:30
Ed Armitage: Adaptive Irrational Worry
14:30
Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś and Bartosz Maćkiewicz: Attitude verbs and free choice
15:00
Frederik Junker: Reasoning with cognitive maps
15:00
Doudja Boumaza: The multiple functions of episodic memory
15:00
Ethan Lai: Personal Probabilism and Fragmentation as a Middle Ground Between Logical Omniscience and Ignorance
15:00
Marta Jorba and Carlota Serrahima: Anxiety Sensitivity and Inner Speech
15:00
Laura Soter: What could a process model of belief look like?
15:30
John Sutton: Collaborative Wayfinding: a critical review and research agenda
15:30
Marek Nieznański: Overdistribution in memory judgments and illusory conjunction of occurrence in two sources
15:30
Michael Devitt and Tomasz Zyglewicz: The Reference Determination of Social Kind Terms
15:30
Daphne Bernués: Inner speech and thought expression
15:30
Tymon Kukier: Concepts: Where Did They Come From? Where Did They Go? A Big Data Analysis of the Last 130 Years of Psychological Publishing
16:00
Nicolas Goupil and Dora Kampis: One-shot arbitrary associations in infant relational memory
16:00
Daniel Piecka: Filling the Gap Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information
16:00
Pär Sundström: Which thoughts require sensory grounding? Lessons from swampmen and aphantasics

Symposium: Imagistic Cognition

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
  • 14:30
    Roland Fleming, Yaniv Morgenstern, Kevin Lande and Christopher Gauker

Spatial Cognition

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Memory

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Content Determination

Room 232 (232)

Thinking & Worrying

Room 154 (154)

Concepts & Propositional Attitudes

Room 161 (161)
16:30

Coffee and posters

17:00

Parallel sessions

Imagination

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: Piotr Kozak

Format & Vehicle

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Chiara Brozzo

Cognitive Development

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Ian Apperly

Embodied Cognition

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Wiktor Rorot

The Senses

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Paweł Gładziejewski

Pragmatics

Room 161 (161)
Chair: Wojciech Rostworowski
17:00
Michelle Liu: Mental imagery and harmful language
17:00
Elisabeth Pacherie, Myrto Mylopoulos and Joshua Shepherd: Motoric Representational Format
17:00
Annika McDermott-Hinman, Rowena Garcia, Scott Anderbois and Roman Feiman: Mapping Concepts to Words: A cross-linguistic study on negation acquisition
17:00
Daniel Kim: Hallucination as Embodied Imagination
17:00
Błażej Skrzypulec: Olfactory content and olfactory structure
17:00
Anna Drożdżowicz: Voice, speaker identity and communication
17:30
Sacha Behrend: The three faces of mental imagery: Towards a New Definition of Mental Imagery
17:30
Yair Levy: The Format of Intending
17:30
Tomasz Klochowicz, Giorgio Sbardolini and Maria Aloni: Cognitive bias approach to the acquisition of disjunction
17:30
Henrique Mendes: Causation and constitution in 4E cognition
17:30
Noddy Lam: Extracting McDowell's Insight on Colour from his Dispositionalism
17:30
Rasmus Overmark, Derek Ball and Amanda Seed: Pragmatic Relativity in Mentalizing Development: The Case of Quotative ‘Be Like’
18:00
Andreas Pommer: Geometric Computation with Neural Population Dynamics
18:00
Daniel Vanello: Constructivism, The Moral/Conventional Distinction, and Early Childhood Moral Development
18:00
Bartosz Michał Radomski: The Concept of Adaptivity: A Missing Piece in Cognitive Science?
18:00
M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez: The prospects of perceptual agency: the case of perceptual expertise
18:00
Maria Spychalska and Cara Oster: The role of script knowledge and short-term memory for the processing of temporal order relations in conjunctions
18:30
Andreas Arslan and Jonathan Kominsky: Blind spots in the mind’s eye: Mental imagery often lacks detail and coherence
18:30
Rodrigo Garro Rivero: The Format of Spatial Representation: Analog Constituents in Polar Coordinate Format
18:30
Nicolas Cuevas-Alvear and Camila Suarez: Are babies scientists or artisans? A Review of a Classic Analogy in Developmental Psychology
18:30
Sanja Sreckovic: Deliberation over Value: Affective Metacognition in Nonhuman Animals
18:30
Daniel Kim and Daniel Garcia: Touch and Bodily Boundedness

Imagination

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)

Format & Vehicle

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Cognitive Development

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Embodied Cognition

Room 232 (232)

The Senses

Room 154 (154)

Pragmatics

Room 161 (161)
19:00

End of session

20:00

Conference dinner

Friday 5th of September

09:00

Keynote address by Cameron Buckner, 'LLMs as Models of Human Reasoning'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
Session Chair: Marcin Miłkowski
10:15

Coffee

10:45

Plenary symposium led by Emily Sullivan, with Michael Franke and Bojana Grujičić: 'LLMs and Human Reasoning'

Hall of Mirrors (164)
13:00

Lunch / ESPP Business Meeting

14:30

Parallel sessions

Symposium: Indexicality in Memory

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
Chair: Sarah Beck

AI

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)
Chair: Bartosz Radomski

Causal & Theoretical Reasoning

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)
Chair: Nicolas Goupil

Deliberation

Room 232 (232)
Chair: Dora Kampis

Morality & Social Cognition

Room 154 (154)
Chair: Louise Röska-Hardy
14:30
Denis Perrin, Kristina Liefke, Tadeusz Ciecierski, Jakub Rudnicki and Kourken Michaelian
14:30
Ilmari Hirvonen: Facial Analysis AI as Social Pseudotechnology
14:30
Marina D'Amico: An Interventionist Approach to Causal Selection: The Optimal Control Hypothesis
14:30
Eva Rafetseder, Kirsten Blakey, Brina Recelj, Chloe Dow, Zsófia Virányi and Giacomo Melis: Rational Before the Age of Reason? Young Children’s Belief Revision in Response to Undermining Evidence
14:30
Paige Amormino, Adam Kagel, Joanna Li and Abigail Marsh: Impartial Altruism versus Special Obligations for Close Others
15:00
Marcin Rządeczka, Maciej Wodziński and Marcin Moskalewicz: Cognitive Resilience: A Strategy to Mitigate the Risks of Reverse Alignment in Conversational AI
15:00
Maria Fuelberth: Motivation Matters: the correct way to control belief formation
15:30
Yuhan Fu and Yifan Mei: The Acquisition of Normative Concepts in Humans and Language Models
15:30
Miklos Kurthy, Eugen Fischer, Karina Schumann, James Andow and Jonah Koetke: Care For Consistency: Conceptualising and Measuring a Philosophically Desirable Trait
15:30
Sophie Keeling: Reasons deliberation
15:30
Rodrigo Díaz and Ivar Hannikainen: The role of emotion in morality
16:00
Markus Pantsar: Can AI help us understand numerical cognition and arithmetical knowledge?
16:00
Giacomo Melis: Inferential Reasoning in philosophy and comparative psychology
16:00
James Grayot: Why be a frame-sensitive reasoner? On the epistemic foundations of ultraintensional preference formation
16:00
Jenny Zhang: Experimental Paradigms for Utilitarian Thinking: Problems with the Assumption of Fit with Theory and Studying Impartial Beneficence

Symposium: Indexicality in Memory

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall (123)
  • 14:30
    Denis Perrin, Kristina Liefke, Tadeusz Ciecierski, Jakub Rudnicki and Kourken Michaelian

AI

Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski Hall (006)

Causal & Theoretical Reasoning

GSSR Plenary Hall (268)

Deliberation

Room 232 (232)

Morality & Social Cognition

Room 154 (154)
16:30

End of conference

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