NATIONAL OXFORD UEHIRO PRIZE IN PRACTICAL ETHICS 2023
• All graduate and undergraduate students (full and part-time) currently enrolled at any UK university, in any subject, are invited to enter the National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics by submitting an essay of up to 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical ethics.
• Two undergraduate papers and two graduate papers will be shortlisted from those submitted to go forward to a public presentation and discussion, where the winner of each category will be selected.
• The winner from each category will receive a prize of £500, and the runner up £200. Revised versions of the two winning essays will be considered for publication in the Journal of Practical Ethics. The two winners from the prize will be invited to take part in an online Q&A, as part of the Oxford Uehiro Festival of Arguments.
• To enter, please submit your written papers by the end of Tuesday 7th February 2023 to rocci.wilkinson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Finalists will be notified by Tuesday 21st February of selection. The public presentation will take place on Tuesday 14th March, from 5:30pm. Please save this presentation date, as you will need to attend if selected as a finalist.
Detailed instructions are available here
Similar Posts
Concepts: Pluralism, Etiology, and Neural Implementation
Concepts are the constituents of thoughts. As understood by cognitive scientists, they are items in semantic memory that are deployed in higher cognitive processes including inference, categorization, and judgment. In Chapter 2 of his excellent book Cognitive Ontology, Khalidi examines…
Humans’ Invariance Assumption: Should Statistics and AI Adopt It?
A cognitive corollary of Kuhn’s question is, “What must we humans assume the world be like, in order that we may know it?” James Woodward’s work on invariance has opened up several lines of inquiry into an answer to this…
Cross Post: COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?
So how concerned should we be about these cases? Sabrina Bracher/Shutterstock To use a trivial example, if there are 100 seats in a cinema and you jump a queue of 100, someone who has waited will not get a seat….
The Voyage of Compassion: Srila Prabhupada Reaches the Shores of America
Srila Prabhupada wrote in his Jaladuta Diary: S. R. Day. Today there is a great deal of lurching although the sky is clear. Mrs. Pandiya, although a little lady but very intelligent and learned also. She has foretold about my…
Horror, Fear and Trust in a Neonatal Unit
This week, closing evidence was presented in the long-running trial of Lucy Letby, a nurse who is accused of murdering seven newborn infants (and attempting to murder 10 more) in a neonatal intensive care unit in Chester between 2015 and…
Seasonal CFPs and Activities in East Asia, Autumn 2022
Takuya Niikawa (Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University) CFPs * NCCU Philosophical Journal Topical Issue: Knowledge and Action [National Chengchi University is based in Taipei, Taiwan] Submission preliminary deadline: Dec. 31st, 2022 Do beliefs guide actions?…