Call for Papers: 88^th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society

November 13-14, 2026

El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus, El Paso, TX.

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swps2026

The 2026 meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society will be held at El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus, from Friday, November 13th to Saturday, November 14th. On Friday, November 13th, SWPS will host a panel in collaboration with the Society for Mexican American Philosophy. All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be published in volume 43, issue 1 of Southwest Philosophy Review.

The Southwestern Philosophical Society is an association of scholars founded in 1936, and it provides a forum for philosophical research. While SWPS originally served philosophers in the American Southwest, it is today an international society. The Society is proud of its pluralism and its tradition of openness, where scholars from diverse backgrounds and of all major philosophical traditions find their views and styles taken seriously.

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. There are multiple benefits to submitting to the Southwestern Philosophical Society:

1. All papers undergo anonymous peer review from two scholars. All accepted papers receive a commentary.
2. Presented papers will be published in volume 43, issue 1 of Southwest Philosophy Review.
3. Presented papers will receive a written commentary, published in volume 43, issue 2 of Southwest Philosophy Review.
4. While Southwest Philosophy Review owns the copyrights to the journal-formatted article, the author retains copyright over the words. Thus, the author is permitted to expand the conference-length article and publish it in another venue.

Submission Guidelines:

• Electronic submissions are required and should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swps2026
• Papers may not exceed 3,000 words in length (not including notes and references). Papers exceeding this length will not be considered.
• Papers must be in PDF format. Papers submitted in any other format cannot be processed. (If accepted for publication, the author must provide MS Word [.doc/.docx] or Rich Text Format [.rtf] files).
• The manuscript should be prepared for anonymous review with no name and no identifying information in the title page, main text, or notes.
• Submissions should include a word count and 150-word abstract on the title page. Neither contributes to the total word count.
• If scholars are eligible and wish to be considered for Travel Grants or the SWPS Presidential Prize, they should indicate their eligibility and wish to be considered for either or both on the title page.
• Dues are required only if the paper is accepted for presentation.
• All presentations will be done in-person, and no online or remote presentations will be possible.

Submission Deadline: The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Travel Grants: SWPS offers a limited number of $150 travel grants to help defray travel costs. The grants will be awarded to papers submitted by philosophers from underrepresented groups who are also early career philosophers (defined as graduate students or scholars who completed their PhD no more than three years ago). Authors who are eligible for these grants should indicate this on the cover page of their submission.

SWPS Presidential Prize: The Presidential Prize goes to the best paper submitted to the annual conference by a junior scholar (scholars who were awarded their PhD no more than three years ago). Authors who are eligible for these grants should indicate this on the cover page of their submission.

Membership: You must be a member of the Society to present and have your article published in volume 1, issue 43 of Southwest Philosophy Review. Dues may be paid when registering for the conference. To join, send inquiries to Boomer Trujillo, University of Louisville, at glenn.trujillo@louisville.edu.

SWPS Officers:

• President: Jerry Green, University of Central Oklahoma
• Immediate Past President: Boomer Trujillo, University of Louisville
• Vice-President and Program Chair: Laura J. Mueller, West Texas A&M University
• Treasurer: Justin Bell, Texas A&M University Victoria
• Secretary: Boomer Trujillo, University of Louisville
• Journal Editor: Todd Stewart, Illinois State University
• At-Large Members:
  • Alyssa Lowery, Longwood University
  • Susan Castro, Wichita State University
• Local Arrangements: Aaron Alvarez, El Paso Community College

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to Laura J. Mueller at lmueller@wtamu.edu