It’s not really the best week for competitive activities, but we’ll press ahead…

bq. “Young Philosophers Essay Competition”:http://www.arts.cornell.edu/philrev/announcement.html

bq. The Sage School of Philosophy and the Philosophical Review are pleased to announce a Young Philosophers Essay Competition in philosophy of language. Full-length articles on any topic in philosophy of language, broadly construed, will be considered. Submissions must be in English. The competition is open to anyone currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program (or equivalent) in philosophy or a related subject, as well as to anyone who did not receive a Ph.D. or equivalent degree before January 1, 2000. Submissions will be judged by members of the Sage School of Philosophy. Provided the number and standard of submissions are sufficiently high, a winner will be chosen to present their article at a symposium to be held at Cornell University. Two specialists in the field will be invited to comment on the winner’s article at the symposium. The winning article will be published as the Young Philosophers Essay Competition winner in the Philosophical Review . The deadline for submission is March 1, 2005.

Good luck everyone!

I am, by the way, incredibly disappointed that I’m no longer a young philosopher. I suspect this idea of tying youthfulness to PhD completion dates disadvantages philosophers from countries where it is standard to do shorter PhDs and then do a post-doc or something similar before becoming permanently employed. Though since I wouldn’t be eligible for the prize anyway, it hardly matters in this case.