One of many small variety of speaker spots on the Northeast Normativity Workshop (NEN) is reserved for the winner of a prize that’s structured in an revolutionary method.
Within the visitor submit, beneath, Daniel Fogal (NYU), Nick Laskowski (Maryland), and Nate Sharadin (Hong Kong), the organizers of the upcoming workshop, clarify the way it works.
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The New NEN Workshop Prize
by Daniel Fogal, Nick Laskowski, and Nate Sharadin
There will not be sufficient prizes in philosophy. Few prizes are awarded for particular papers. To our data, none is funded largely by small-dollar donations, and none is awarded by the group through a clear evaluate course of.
We goal to begin a prize with all of those options.
The prize is related to Northeast Normativity Workshop (NEN), an annual workshop going down on a rotating foundation at completely different universities alongside the Northeast Hall. The workshop goals to carry collectively the massive, various group of philosophers engaged on points associated to normativity within the Northeast (and past). Earlier workshops have included talks on causes, ignorance, enkrasia, consent, love, error principle, envy, the problem of ethics, bias, encroachment, deontic ideas, and plenty of extra. Yow will discover extra in regards to the talks on the upcoming one here.
Right here’s how the prize works:
- Paper submitters pay a $22 submission charge, 100% of which (after credit card fees) goes right into a prize pool. (Word: attendance on the workshop is free and open to all!)
- Submitters will blindly rating 2 different submissions in accordance with a rubric on which we’ll solicit group suggestions in spite of everything submissions are in.
- The highest 5 submissions from the preliminary scoring spherical will likely be topic to a Condorcet polling spherical by your entire group of submitters.
- We’re capping the submissions at 100 for this 12 months (so, a most of ~$2,200 within the prize pool). If we hit 75 submissions, we plan to separate the prize into two and add one runner-up (90/10 prize cut up). If we hit 100 submissions, we’ll do two runners-up (80/10/10).
- The creator of the profitable paper(s) will likely be invited to current their work on the 5th Annual NEN Workshop, being held this 12 months on the College of Maryland, School Park.
You’ll be able to read the details (and submit your paper or reserve a slot) on the workshop web site.
Anybody can reserve a slot right this moment (we anticipate the restricted variety of slots to replenish shortly), in case they don’t but have a paper prepared for submission.
We hope to boost outdoors matching grants (in the event you’re fascinated with contributing, get in touch). 100% of any outdoors grants will likely be added to the prize pool, doubtlessly considerably growing the general payout.
We anticipate that there are numerous methods this course of could possibly be improved, and we hope to pursue them in future years. (Please tell us your ideas on how to take action beneath!) For this pilot 12 months, we expect our concept has 4 fundamental benefits in comparison with different prizes in philosophy.
First, it’s open to your entire group of philosophers. There aren’t any memberships to purchase, societies to hitch, or social networks to belong to.
Second, it’s as clear as doable in any respect levels. There aren’t any “choice committees” or opaque evaluate procedures.
Third, it will probably scale. Because it doesn’t rely upon a single group of editors and referees, if it really works for 100 submissions, it will probably maybe work for 1,000; it will also be duplicated at present scale in different areas.
Fourth, it’s novel. Novel issues are price making an attempt, particularly at low price.
We predict the prize affords an vital take a look at of the speculation that good philosophical work will rise towards the highest in a good, clear means of blind evaluate and comparative voting by consultants. We sit up for seeing what philosophers submit and, importantly, what philosophers resolve is finest.
Read all about the prize, and submit your paper (or reserve your slot) on the workshop web site.
