Sponsored by the “Ammonius Foundation”:http://www.ammonius.org/ and administered by the editorial board of _Oxford Studies in Metaphysics_, the 2012 Younger Scholar Prize annual essay competition is open to scholars who are within ten years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program. (Independent scholars should enquire of the editor to determine eligibility.) The award is $8,000. Winning essays will appear in _Oxford Studies in Metaphysics_, so submissions must not be under review elsewhere.
Essays should generally be no longer than 10,000 words; longer essays may be considered, but authors must seek prior approval. To be eligible for the 2012 prize, submissions must be electronically submitted by 30 January 2012 (paper submissions are no longer accepted). Refereeing will be blind; authors should omit remarks and references that might disclose their identities. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. The winner is determined by a committee of members of the editorial board of _Oxford Studies in Metaphysics_, and will be announced in early March. At the author’s request, the board will simultaneously consider entries in the prize competition as submissions for _Oxford Studies in Metaphysics_, independently of the prize.
Previous winners of the Younger Scholar Prize are:
- Thomas Hofweber, “Inexpressible Properties and Propositions”, Vol. 2;
- Matthew McGrath, “Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence”, Vol. 3;
- Cody Gilmore, “Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence”, Vol. 3;
- Stephan Leuenberger, “Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism”, Vol. 4;
- Jeffrey Sanford Russell, “The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space”, Vol. 4;
- Bradford Skow, “Extrinsic Temporal Metrics”, Vol. 5;
- Jason Turner, “Ontological Nihilism”, Vol. 6;
- Rachael Briggs and Graeme A. Forbes, “The Real Truth About the Unreal Future”, Vol. 7;
- Shamik Dasgupta, “Absolutism vs Comparativism about Quantities”, forthcoming, Vol. 8.
Enquiries should be addressed to “Dean Zimmerman”:mailto:dwzimmer@rci.rutgers.edu.