[PHILOS-L] Final CFP: 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' Nov 1st

[Giulia Martina]

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FINAL CALL- Call for papers: 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' special issue

*Deadline 1st November*

We invite paper submissions for a special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences on philosophical questions raised by the chemosenses – i.e. the senses of smell, taste, and flavour. The aim of the special issue is to stimulate and attract new research in all aspects of perception, experience, and cognition in the chemosenses, and to demonstrate how studying the chemosenses contributes to philosophy more broadly. We hope to expand the range of topics covered by philosophers so far, encourage new researchers to focus on the chemosenses, and offer a venue for the current community of olfactory philosophers to enrich ongoing debates.

While progress has been made on many areas of olfactory philosophy over the past twenty years, this research has still not yielded a consensus or uniform approach. On the contrary, as debates become more sophisticated and build on prior work, more fine-grained and varied theoretical options have been proposed and broader questions of methodology and overall approach are emerging. Moreover, there are many areas that philosophers are only starting to explore beyond the philosophy of perception and mind, such as the aesthetic dimension of smell, the ecological import of environmental odours, and olfaction’s general role in our well-being.

We are seeking contributions on both well-established questions (e.g. on the nature of olfactory experience and its objects) as well as topical areas we think are still under-explored, with the aim of eliciting new research on them as well as inspiring contributors to propose their own, novel topics from the contributors. These non-exhaustively include:

- the relation between the chemosenses, memory, emotions, and more general cognitive capacities;

- the role smell plays within human social interactions;

- the role of smell, taste, and flavour, in culture, and how it differs across cultures;

- ethical issues in the industrial production and use of odorants;

- moral and ecological concerns with the production, use, and digitization of smells;

- the nature of chemosenses within animals and perhaps even plants.

The submission deadline is *1st November 2025*. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is a fully open access journal and all contributions for the special issue will undergo peer-review. For length and formatting guidelines and instructions on how to submit, please visit the journal webpage: https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/about/submissions

For further information please contact the special issue editors: Giulia Martina (giulia....@tutanota.com) or Benjamin (benjam...@unr.edu).

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