Fifth Annual Prize Essay Competition in
European Philosophy from Kant to the Present
TOPIC: The Implications of Bio-Medical Technology for
Human Nature
This topic 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
The winner of the first four annual Prize Essay Competitions were Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki), Robert Guay (Binghamton University), Helder De Schutter (University of Leuven), and Herbert de Vriese (University of Antwerp) 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]), “Nations without Nationalism” (forthcoming in Inquiry), and “The Myth of the Metaphysical Circle.”
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
The deadline for submissions
is March 1, 2008. Essays should be submitted in triplicate in
typed (hard copy) form to Ms. Katie Barrett, Department of Philosophy,
Luckens Prize in Jewish Thought
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/JudaicStudies/luckens_prize.html