The Royal Institute of Philosophy (RIP) has introduced the creation of a brand new e-book prize to acknowledge “essentially the most unique philosophical analysis that transcends tutorial disciplines”. The prize comes with a financial award of £20,000 (≈ $24,600).
The Nayef Al-Rodhan Worldwide Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy will intention to reward the authors of books that, based on a press launch from the RIP,
- reveal rigorous unique and high-quality transdisciplinary analysis
- are accessible and fascinating to learn
- are unique, modern, and impactful
- intend to advance and contribute to the understanding of human behaviors.
They add:
We welcome philosophical work that transcends tutorial boundaries, and furthers our understanding of the important thing challenges going through the world in the present day, and which will face us sooner or later. The work could also be from philosophers, neuroscientists, social scientists, or from different disciplines. Amongst different work we welcome submissions from these researching disruptive applied sciences, comparable to Synthetic Intelligence and Machine Studying, from these involved with local weather change, and from these involved with the way forward for democracy.
To be thought of for the 2023 version of the prize, a e-book will need to have been revealed no sooner than 2020 and have to be out there in English.
The prize is called for Nayef Al-Rodhan, who started his profession as a neuroscientist, however has gone on in 25 books and over 300 articles to give attention to the “transdisciplinarity, neuro-techno-philosophy, and the way forward for philosophy, with a selected emphasis on the interaction between philosophy, neuroscience, strategic tradition, utilized historical past, geopolitics, disruptive applied sciences, and worldwide relations, and world safety.” You’ll be able to study extra about his writings here.
You’ll be able to study extra concerning the prize and learn how to apply for it here.
(through Kate Walters)
