THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY PRIZE ESSAY COMPETITION 2006 - £1500
19 September 2006 – 16:04The closing date for submissions is 1st November 2006
THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY PRIZE ESSAY COMPETITION 2006 - £1500
Powers that be
The Philosophical Quarterly invites submissions for its 2006 international prize essay competition, the topic of which is ‘Powers that Be‘.
Philosophers of different persuasions have been attracted to an Eleatic Principle: to be real is to possess a [...]
The closing date for submissions is 1st November 2006
THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY PRIZE ESSAY COMPETITION 2006 - £1500
Powers that be
The Philosophical Quarterly invites submissions for its 2006 international prize essay competition, the topic of which is ‘Powers that Be‘.
Philosophers of different persuasions have been attracted to an Eleatic Principle: to be real is to possess a power to affect or be affected by other things. On such a view, science aims to identify powers of the fundamental entities and show how these can account for powers possessed by objects made up of those fundamental entities. Were this so, intrinsic properties of concrete objects would be powers; saying what something is would involve saying what it could do and what could be done to it.
Essays are invited assessing the merits of an ontology of powers. Topics could include the question whether an ontology of powers excludes properties that are not powers (and the implications of such an ontology); the place of relations in an ontology of powers; and the implications of a commitment to powers for accounts of causation and of laws of nature.
Essays should not be longer than 8,000 words. They should be typed in double spacing and conform to the usual stylistic requirements (see inside back cover). Three copies of each essay are required and these will not be returned. All entries will be regarded as submissions for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly, and both winning and non-winning entries judged to be of sufficient quality will be published. The closing date for submissions is 1st November 2006.
All submissions should be headed ‘Powers that Be’ (with the author’s name and address given in a covering letter, but NOT in the essay itself) and sent to:
The Executive Editor
The Philosophical Quarterly
University of St Andrews
KY16 9AL
Scotland
Source : http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pq/essay06.htm
