37.435, Confs: Workshop "Conceptual Structure of Attitudes: Language and Cognition" (Czech Republic)

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Date: 29-Jan-2026
From: Natasha Korotkova [n.korotkova at ucla.edu]
Subject: Workshop "Conceptual Structure of Attitudes: Language and Cognition"


Workshop "Conceptual Structure of Attitudes: Language and Cognition"

Date: 10-Aug-2026 - 14-Aug-2026
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Meeting URL: https://natasha-korotkova.github.io/attitudes2026.html

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics

Submission Deadline: 10-Apr-2026

Organizers: Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University) and Salvador
Mascarenhas (ENS)
Submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2026/Workshop/CSA
Propositional attitudes, linguistically expressed with predicates like
“believe”, “intend”, “know” or “want”, constitute one of the central
topics in linguistics and philosophy, and they are the foundation of
belief-desire-intention psychology. Propositional attitudes allow us
to express key aspects of our mental lives for external use in
communication and internal use in reasoning. This workshop, to take
place during the 37th edition of ESSLLI (European Summer School on
Language, Logic and Information), aims at assessing the state of the
art on propositional attitudes and identifying areas for
interdisciplinary collaborations.
Invited Speakers:
 - Ruth Byrne (Trinity College Dublin)
 - Thomas Grano (Indiana Univ. Bloomington)
 - Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth College)
In linguistics and philosophy of language, research on propositional
attitudes was fundamental in shaping our understanding of the nature
of meaning and semantic objects, proceeding in parallel to research on
modality in natural language. More recently, there has been a steady
interest in the fine-grained semantics of attitude predicates that
draws on materials from an array of languages (Georgian, Koryak,
Mandarin Chinese, Navajo, Nez Perce, Polish, Slovene, Turkish, to name
a few) and pays serious attention to the interaction between verb
meaning and the syntactic shape of the complement. This work has
dramatically increased the empirical coverage of linguistic theory and
improved our understanding of broad classes found within attitude
predicates that reflect differences in their core semantics. However,
with few exceptions, linguistic research on attitude predicates has
remained largely disconnected from the vast body of literature
concerned with the very nature of mental attitudes.
In philosophy of mind and intentional psychology, attention has
chiefly been directed at the role of propositional attitudes as causes
of other mental states and of interactions with the environment,
focusing especially on experiments testing the behavioral consequences
of attitudes. Doxastic attitudes have played a key role in this
literature, in particular “know” and “believe”. Perhaps the best known
topic of research on attitudes within this tradition is theory of
mind, the capacity to represent and reason with other individuals'
mental states; in particular, extensive debates about the
preschoolers’ ability to attribute false beliefs to other agents and
what this ability tells us about cognition at large.  This vast
literature illustrates quite clearly the importance of attitudes in
cognition, however, despite its high relevance for linguistics, and
reliance on linguistic data, this strand of work  has been largely
disconnected from the research on the language of propositional
attitudes.
These traditions show considerable overlap and complementarity, yet
their interaction over the past twenty years has been limited. In this
interdisciplinary workshop, we bridge this gap by bringing together
researchers from these different fields whose work bears on
propositional attitudes, thus creating a platform for discussing the
role of attitudes in cognition and communication and laying out the
groundwork for future interdisciplinary collaborations.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of subtopics of interest.  Note that
this is an interdisciplinary workshop on one of the broadest research
topics in linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.  As such we are
entirely open to highly original submissions on non-traditional
subtopics within our theme, provided that the authors are prepared to
give a presentation to a varied audience with diverse backgrounds. We
especially welcome submissions about work in progress, including from
PhD students.
 - attitudes, reasoning, and rationality
 - relation between knowledge and belief
 - proper treatment of goals and desires
 - concepts (not) lexicalized by attitude verbs and gaps in the
attitudinal domain
 - non-linguistic constraints on attitudinal meaning
 - philosophy of intentional psychology
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: April 10, 2026
Notification of acceptance: early May 2026
Format:
We anticipate having six to eight refereed talks, with the possibility
of a poster session. All submissions must be made through OpenReview
at this address:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2026/Workshop/CSA.  If
you’re planning to submit, please make sure you create an OpenReview
account in advance if you don’t have it yet, as it takes a bit of
time.
Abstracts can have up to two pages of main text, with an optional
third page exclusively for figures, tables, and fully glossed and
translated example sentences in languages other than English.  Authors
should exercise good judgment when formatting their abstracts: we
don't impose any specific formatting constraints, but we expect
abstracts to be readable in a comfortable manner (if we can’t read it,
we can’t review it).  Authors are welcome to include only selected
references, skipping bibliographic information about well-known
classics in the field.
Each author may submit either (A) one single-authored abstract; (B)
one single-authored abstract and one multiple-authored abstract; or
(C) two multiple-authored abstracts.
Every submission will be considered first and foremost as a possible
talk, but authors will be asked to indicate at the moment of
submission whether they wish for their abstract to be considered for
the possible poster session in addition. We should also note that all
workshop participants will be asked to pay the ESSLLI registration
fee. Depending on the number of participants and their funding
situation, we hope to be able to cover some of these costs, but can’t
be sure at present.



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