Call for Submissions - The Isaac Levi Prize - $10,000
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From: Alyssa Timin <managin...@JOURNALOFPHILOSOPHY.ORG>
The competition is open to graduate students and scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past two years from anywhere in the world. Manuscripts should be no more than 12,000 words, not including references. Articles should be formatted for blind review and submitted to levi...@journalofphilosophy.org. Please include verification of your eligibility, such as a letter from your department or a link to your profile on your department’s website. The deadline for receipt of articles is June 15th.
Isaac Levi (June 30, 1930-December 25, 2018) was an American philosopher and the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University. Levi made a name for himself with his first book, Gambling with Truth (A. Knopf 1967, MIT Press 1973). In the text, Levi offered a decision-theoretic reconstruction of epistemology with a close eye toward the classical pragmatist philosophers like William James and Charles Sanders Peirce. Levi was known for his work in belief revision and imprecise probability. Particularly significant among his later books are The Enterprise of Knowledge (MIT Press 1980) and Hard Choices (Cambridge University Press 1986). Levi was one of several doctoral students of Ernest Nagel who were influential in American post-war philosophy, including Morton White, Patrick Suppes, Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., and Frederic Schick. Levi also served as doctoral advisor to prominent formal philosophers, including Teddy Seidenfeld, Horacio Arló-Costa, and Eleonora Cresto. The author of seven books and dozens of articles, Levi received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1957 and taught there from 1970 until his retirement in 2007. His full bibliography is available for download as a PDF linked from the following site: http://www.journalofphilosophy.org/leviprize.html
The initial committee to adjudicate the competition for the prize consists of Carol Rovane, Akeel Bilgrami, Philip Kitcher, Teddy Seidenfeld, Jessica Collins, Haim Gaifman, and Achille Varzi. The committee will have the right not to make an award in any given year if, in its opinion, there is no submission of sufficiently high quality.
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