Check our these excellent articles by Benjamin Matheson and Alba Montes Sanchez! Both use parenthood to explore very different questions: while Matheson's original three-book review dives into anxiety, guilt & pride, Montes Sanchez discusses how emotion helps knowing what we really want.

The CFP for the one-day pre-conference workshop “The Power of (Dis-)Placing: Affect, Practice and the Political” is open until the 15th of feb. Send your abstracts (500w) to imke.von.maur[at]ku.de with the subject ‘EPSSE 2026 Pre-conference’

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. @epsse.bsky.social

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

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

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

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. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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!

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....🔥

Call for Papers Passion special issue Affective Lives: Autotheoretical Experiments Edited by Ruth Rebecca Tietjen #philsky

🌱😤 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 [email protected]

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! #philsky platform.openjournals.nl/passion/index

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

EPSSE & Passion in good company in this starter pack of philosophy organisations and journals 🦉#philsky (Thanks Keith for your curating work for philosophy Bluesky, which has been integral to kick start the community here)

For World #philosophy day let's bring back the 1st ever issue of Passion. Published in June '23, it launched one of the few specialist journals on phil of emotion (open to submissions all year round!). From revenge to envy and fury, grief, mental disorders and therapy robots, let's go! 🧵/1

The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

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Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP! Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice

The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

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