Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

University of Kentucky Fourth Annual Prize Essay Competition in European Philosophy from Kant to the Present

Topic: Is Metaphysics Alive or Dead?

This question may be addressed historically, systematically, or through any combination of these two approaches. The winning essay will receive a prize of $1000 and, upon recommendation of the selection committee, be published in Inquiry. The author of the winning essay will also be brought to the University of Kentucky in the Fall of 2007 to present it.

The winner of the first three annual Prize Essay Competitions were Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Robert Guay (Binghamton University), and Helder De Schutter (University of Leuven) for their essays “Recent Reinterpretations of ‘The Transcendental’ Revisited” (Inquiry 47, No. 3 [June 2004]), “The ‘I’s Have It: Nietzsche on Subjectivity” (Inquiry 49, No. 3 [June 2006]), and “Nations without Nationalism” (forthcoming in Inquiry).

Essays will be judged by a process of blind review. Submissions should be appropriately formatted for such a process, with the author’s name and other identifying information appearing only on a separate cover sheet. Essays should be double spaced, in English, and no more than 8000 words in length. Past and present faculty and students at the University of Kentucky are ineligible to compete. Submissions should not have been previously published or submitted for publication.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2007. Essays should be submitted in triplicate in typed (hard copy) form to Ms. Katie Barrett, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA. No electronic submissions please.