CFP: Twentieth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

The Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic is finally out of its teenage years - we’re turning 20! This special twentieth anniversary edition of the conference will be held in St John's College, Cambridge over the weekend of 23-24 January 2027. The conference is intended as a forum for graduate students who work in formal areas of philosophy to present their work to their peers and to senior academics working in these fields. As usual, the conference is fully in-person.

To celebrate our anniversary, we have invited two keynote speakers with strong ties to the conference: Prof. Tim Button, of UCL, and Prof. Luca Incurvati of the ILLC at the University of Amsterdam. Tim and Luca originally founded the conference back in 2007 - we’re delighted to welcome them home!

In addition, we are calling for paper submissions from graduate students. This is an unrivalled opportunity for graduate students interested in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and other formal areas of philosophy to present their work, meet their peers, and get feedback from world experts on these subjects. There will be six graduate talks over two days.

A representative, but nonexclusive, list of subdisciplines would be: philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of logic, applications of logic to epistemology and metaphysics, formal epistemology, decision theory, and applications of formal methods to the philosophy of science. Papers will have respondents, and will be followed by open discussion. Respondents will be selected from members of the Cambridge University Faculty of Philosophy and other philosophy departments in the UK.

Papers should be no longer than 4000 words (including footnotes and appendices, excluding references) and suitable for a 40 minute presentation. They should also be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words. The paper should be anonymised and suitable for blind review. Please include a separate cover sheet including name, paper title, abstract, institution, status (e.g. PhD student), and contact details. You may also include on the cover sheet an indication of membership of a group underrepresented in philosophy (e.g. women, ethnic minorities, first-generation university students), though this is optional. Submissions are preferred in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc(x) format. They should be emailed to [email protected]. Receipt of submission will be confirmed by email. Please note that we cannot accept more than one submission per student. If you have any queries relating to submissions, please contact us via email. The deadline for submissions is 28 October 2026 (23:59 UK time).

Talks are selected on the basis of double-blind review. When deciding between equally appropriate submissions, we take into account authors' membership of groups underrepresented in philosophy. We receive many strong papers; the acceptance rate is usually 20-25%.

We adhere to the BPA/SWIP good practice guidelines concerning conferences, accessibility, and travel. We particularly encourage submissions from women and other underrepresented groups in philosophy. Moreover, we would like to emphasise that the venue will be completely wheelchair accessible with a large lift and an accessible toilet and service dogs are welcome. There are generous breaks between talks, and quiet space outside. Please contact us with any queries related to accessibility.

We will notify authors of the decision regarding their paper by 12 December. For successful applicants we plan to cover the cost of accommodation and the Saturday night conference dinner. We regret that we are unable to reimburse travel costs for graduate speakers.

Looking forward to your submissions,
Charles and Karol