[Bups-l] British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy Essay Contest

[Edward Grefenstette]

Do you have some quality work to share? Then we have something for  
you. The British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy proudly presents  
its first essay competition, with prizes supplied by our sponsors:  
the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, and  
The Philosopher’s Magazine. Read on...

You can find all the details of the following announcement on the  
contest webpage: http://www.bups.org/pages/contest.shtml

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The BJUP 2007 Essay Contest
Submission Deadline: Friday 18th May, noon

The BJUP welcomes essays related to one or more of the following
topics:

MIND
LANGUAGE
TRUTH
KNOWLEDGE

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Prizes!
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First Prize: £200 and a year’s subscriptions to
The Philosopher’s Magazine
Second Prize: £50 and £50 in book tokens
Third prize: £30 in book tokens and a year’s subscription to BJUP

Outstanding papers are to be offered publication in the BJUP and a
presentation slot at a BUPS conference

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Details of the BJUP 2007 essay contest

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Aim
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The BJUP essay contest has been set up in order to provide an extra
forum in which undergraduates can excel, to celebrate the role of
undergraduates in academic philosophy, and to encourage the brightest
of budding philosophers. For those aspiring to an academic career, this
should be incentive enough to enter, although there is also money to be
won, as well as reputation. Authors successful in the competition  
will be
offered publication in the BJUP, as well as the opportunity to speak at
one of BUPS’s events.

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Entrance
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Essays related to at least one of the following topics will be  
accepted for
review: mind, language, truth, or knowledge.

Submissions should be of no more than 4,000 words in length and
should be handled using the journal’s usual policy for ensuring
anonymous reviewing. (Essays should be emailed to contest at bups.org
in a word document that does not contain the author’s name anywhere.
A second document should be sent with the essay title, word count, and
author’s name, so that we can re-match essays to authors after
reviewing.)

Authors will be notified of the competition panel’s decision within a
month of the deadline. Only one piece of work per author may be
submitted. For this reason, and to regulate the volume of submissions,
we can only accept submissions from authors currently enrolled at a UK
higher-education institution. Members of the BUPS committee are
excluded from the competition.

Judging will be handled by our team of professional academics, who act
as reviewers on a voluntary basis.

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This has all been made possible by The Royal Institute of Philosophy,  
The
Philosopher’s Magazine, and Edinburgh University Press

www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org
www.philosophersnet.com
www.eup.ed.ac.uk