Northern Illinois University
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2026 Call for Papers

Submission deadline: July 31, 2026

We invite graduate students to submit papers of approximately 3,000 words on any topic in mainstream analytic philosophy (suitable for 30-minute presentations; there will be a commentator and a Q&A session after the presentation). Submissions accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored. Only one submission per person will be considered. We ask all papers to be delivered in person. We are able to offer each speaker a $200 stipend to mitigate the costs of travel.

Submission Guidelines

Please send the following as two separate attachments in PDF format to niugsac@gmail.com. The attachments are:

• A cover page, titled [Last][First]_CP, containing the following information:
  • Author’s name
  • Institutional affiliation
  • Contact information (email, phone number)
  • Title of paper
  • Topic area of paper
  • Word count
• Your paper, with an abstract of fewer than 150 words and apt for blind review. Please title your file as [Last][First]_NPC.

Decisions regarding submissions will be sent by September 22, 2026.

Please direct all questions concerning the conference to the Northern Illinois University Graduate Student Advisory Council in Philosophy at niugsac@gmail.com.