Philosophy of memory essay prize
2024 competition
The Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes is pleased to invite submissions for an essay prize on the theme of philosophy of memory.
The winning essay will be published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. The winner will be awarded a budget of up to 2000 EUR to cover travel and accommodation for a research visit at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory. This will include an opportunity for the researcher to present his work and to participate in other CPM events.
The competition is open to early-career researchers, defined as PhD students or those who are within five years of receiving their PhDs (i.e., the PhD should have been received in October 2018 or later).
Submissions on all aspects of the philosophy of memory are welcome; this includes empirically-informed philosophical work. Submissions should be prepared for blind evaluation and should respect the Review of Philosophy and Psychology's instructions for authors, available here.
Please send submissions with the subject line "phil mem essay prize submission" to James Openshaw at. The deadline is April 30, 2024.
2022 competition
The Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes is pleased to announce the winner of the third philosophy of memory essay prize.
The winning article is "LTP revisited: Reconsidering the explanatory power of synaptic efficacy", by Jonathan Najenson, a postdoc at Technion - Israel Institue of Technology. Dr. Najenson's article will be published by the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. He will also be given a budget of up to 3000 EUR to cover travel and accommodation for a research visit to the Centre for Philosophy of Memory.
The winner was selected on the basis of independent blind evaluations of all submissions by a panel of three evaluators.
2021 competition
The Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes is pleased to announce the winner of the second philosophy of memory essay prize.
The winning article is "Memory as skill", by Seth Goldwasser, a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Goldwasser's article will be published by the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. He will also be given a budget of up to 3000 EUR to cover travel and accommodation for a research visit to the Centre for Philosophy of Memory.
We received a large number of excellent submissions, and the evaluators also selected two runners-up: "Memory as sensory modality, perception as experience of the past", by Michael Barkasi, an instructor at York University, and "Memory disjunctivism: A causal theory", by Alex Moran, a a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy and a Research Associate of University College at the University of Oxford. Both of these articles are invited for submission to the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
The winner and the runners-up were selected on the basis of independent blind evaluations of all submissions by a panel of three evaluators.
2020 competition
The Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes is pleased to announce the winner of the first philosophy of memory essay prize.
The winning article is "Remembering the past and imagining the actual", by Daniel Munro, a PhD student at the University of Toronto. Mr. Munro's article will be published by the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. He will also be given a budget of up to 3000 EUR to cover travel and accommodation for a research visit to the Centre for Philosophy of Memory.
We received a large number of excellent submissions, and the evaluators also selected two runners-up: "Memory as triage: Facing up to the hard question of memory", by Nikola Andonovski, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, and "Working memory is not a natural kind and cannot explain central cognition", by Javier Gomez-Lavin, a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. Both of these articles are invited for submission to the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
The winner and the runners-up were selected on the basis of independent blind evaluations of all submissions by a panel of three evaluators.