Essay Competition for Younger Metaphysicians

Essay Competition for Younger Metaphysicians:
The Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize
Sponsored by the A. M. Monius Institute and administered by the editorial
board of  Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, the essay competition is open to
scholars who are within 10 years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are
currently enrolled in a graduate program. (Independent scholars should
inquire with the editor to determine eligibility.)   The award is $8000.
Winning essays shall appear in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, so submissions
must not be under review elsewhere.

Essays should generally be between 7,500 and 15,000 words; longer essays may
be considered, but authors must seek prior approval by providing the editor
with an abstract and word count prior to submission.   To be eligible for
next year's prize, submissions must be received, electronically, by January
30, 2008 (this is an extension of the deadline from January 15).
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 late February 2006.  (The editorial board reserves the right to
extend the deadline further, if no essay is chosen.)  At the author's
request, the board will simultaneously consider entries in the prize
competition as submissions for publication in  Oxford Studies in
Metaphysics, independently of the prize.

Previous winners of the Younger Scholar Prize (two prizes were awarded in
2005):

Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
"Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" (Vol. 2)
Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri-Columbia), "Four-Dimensionalism and
the Puzzles of Coincidence" (Vol. 3, forthcoming 2006)
Cody Gilmore (University of Nebraska at Omaha), "Time Travel, Coinciding
Objects, and Persistence" (Vol. 3, forthcoming 2006)
Stephan Leuenberger (Princeton University) "Ceteris Absentibus  Physicalism"
(Vol. 4, forthcoming 2008)
Brad Skow (M.I.T.), "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics" (Vol. 5, forthcoming 2009)

Inquiries should be addressed to the editor, Dean Zimmerman, at
dwzimmer@rci.rutgers.edu, or by regular mail:

Dean Zimmerman, Editor
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize
Philosophy Department
Rutgers University
Davison Hall, Douglass Campus
26 Nichol Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08903