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YOUNGER SCHOLARS PRIZE
YOUNGER SCHOLARS PRIZE PROGRAM
Oxford Studies In Metaphysics
2009 Winner (and near-winners)
Last year’s record number of 30 submitted entries seemed small compared to a new record of 55 submitted essays for the 2009 Younger Scholars Prize Competition. The Ammonius Foundation and Editorial Board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics wish to make special note the remarkably high quality of essays for 2009, and in particular to highlight the University of Leeds, with whom are associated not only the winning author but also, remarkably, the authors of both exceptionally strong runners-up. We congratulate runners-up Elizabeth Barnes (Lecturer, University of Leeds) and J. Robert G. Williams (Reader in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Leeds) for their essay “A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy”, and runner-up Ross P. Cameron (Lecturer, University of Leeds) for his essay “Truthmaking for Presentists.” The Editorial Board and The Foundation congratulate Jason Turner, also University of Leeds, as winner of the 2009 Younger Scholar’s Prize. His winning essay, “Ontological Nihilism,” will (with those of his colleagues) be published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 6 (D. Zimmerman, ed.), forthcoming 2010.
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Recipient: Jason Turner
University of Leeds
Title: "Ontological Nihilism" |
After a difficult review of a record 30 submitted entries, the Ammonius Foundation and Editorial Board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics are pleased to announce Jeff Russell, NYU, as winner of the 2008 Younger Scholars Prize. His winning essay, “The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space,” will be published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 5 (D. Zimmerman, ed.), forthcoming 2009.
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Recipient: Jeff Russell
New York University
Title: "The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space" Click here to read. |
The Ammonius Foundation congratulates Bradford Skow, MIT for winning the 2007 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Competition. His winning essay "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics" will be published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 5 (D. Zimmerman, ed.).
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Recipient: Bradford Skow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics" |
The Ammonius Foundation joins Oxford Studies in Metaphysics in congratulating Stephan Leuenberger for winning the 2006 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Competition. His winning essay "Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 4 (2008, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 145 - 170.
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Recipient: Stephan Leuenberger
Princeton University, now ANU
Title: "Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism" Click here to read. |
The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri, Columbia) and Cody Gilmore (University of Nebraska at Omaha) as co-winners of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Prize for 2005. McGrath's winning essay "Four Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 3 (2007, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 143 - 176. Gilmore's winning essay "Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence" is also published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 3 (2007), pp. 177 - 198.
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Recipient: Matthew McGrath
University of Missouri, Columbia
Title: "Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence" Click here to read. |
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Recipient: Cody Gilmore
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Title: "Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence" Click here to read. |
The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina) as winner of the inaugural OSM Younger Scholars Prize for 2004. His winning essay "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 2 (2006, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 155 - 206..
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Recipient: Thomas Hofweber
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" Click here to read. |