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

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

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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!

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Deadline on 1 May 2025

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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