CFP: The Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium 2026 (TMC 2026): Naturalistic Philosophy and Grounding

Dates: 30 Apr – 3 May 2026

Submission deadline: 28 Feb 2026

Notification date: By 14 Mar 2026 (negotiable for early submissions)

Location: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Event page: https://philevents.org/event/show/145134

Call for abstracts: https://philevents.org/event/show/145138

Hosts:

·       Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST Taiwan): https://www.lmpsttw.org/en/home

·       National Taiwan University’s Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM Center): https://tsmntu.org/

·       National Taiwan University’s Center for Asian Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy

Supported by:

·       Frontward Foundation

Contact:

National Taiwan University’s Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM Center): [email protected]

Keynote speakers:

Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) [Wendy Huang Lecture];
Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich) [Tony Cheng Lecture];
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)

Featured Speakers:

John Bigelow (Monash University);
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney);
Ruey-Lin Chen (National Chung Cheng University)

Invited Speakers:

Benj Hellie (University of Toronto)

[To be updated]

About the conference series and the 2026 conference:

Supported by the generous donation of the Frontward Foundation, the Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium series (TMCs) is one of the most renowned international philosophy conference series in Taiwan. Held biennially, it aims to provide a platform for dialogue among researchers working on a wide range of contemporary metaphysical issues. In previous years, the conferences under the series have invited many renowned local and international scholars, including David Charles, Max J. Cresswell, Dorothy Edgington, Pascal Engel, Hartry Field, Robert Goldblatt, Alan Hayek, Jennifer Hornsby, Christian List, Hiroakira Ono, David Papineau, and Daniel Stoljar. Following the conference series, multiple international anthologies have been published, including a Logic in Asia (LIAA) book series (Springer) and a special issue of Synthese.

This year’s conference is themed “Naturalistic Philosophy and Grounding” and welcomes contributions related to naturalistic philosophy, grounding, or both. The idea of doing philosophy naturalistically in a natural world has dominated a significant portion of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, this idea has recently often been treated as an implicit background framework, while (arguably) non-naturalistic approaches and perspectives – such as anti-realism, panpsychism, idealism, phenomenology, and others – have experienced a renaissance. This conference aims to provide an opportunity to reinvestigate philosophical naturalism and naturalistic philosophy, especially (though not exclusively) issues related to physicalism, scientism, naturalizing philosophical approaches, natural entities, and the grounding structures of our world.

We welcome submissions in standard metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, metaethics, metaphilosophy, and related areas, provided that the topic has a metaphysical dimension, broadly construed.

Abstract submission:

All researchers working on the related topics are cordially invited to submit their abstracts for a contributed talk. Authors should submit an extended abstract of around 500 words, and no fewer than 500 words and no more than 800 words. A separate page should include all authors’ basic information, including full names, titles, institutional affiliations, and email addresses.

Each submission will be reviewed, with no guaranteed acceptance.

Abstracts must be submitted in both PDF and Word formats (with all author-identifying information removed from the file itself and also the file metadata) and sent to BOTH email addresses below in a SINGLE email titled “TMC Abstract Submission by [Your Name]” by 28 February 2026:

[email protected] ; [email protected]

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 14 March 2026. Earlier notification may be possible for early submissions, but only in the case of particularly outstanding abstracts.

Accommodation:

Accepted speakers are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. The host organisations will endeavour to secure a limited number of hotel rooms near the conference venue. The conference venue is located in a convenient area of the city and can be easily reached by public transportation or by taxi at a reasonable fare.