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SUMMARY:Humans and AI - Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize 2026
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>&lsquo\;Humans and AI&rsquo\;</strong></p>\n<p>The topic for this year&rsquo\;s Royal Institute of Philosophy essay prize competition is &lsquo\;<strong>Humans and AI&rsquo\;</strong>.</p>\n<p>--</p>\n<p>Each year the Royal Institute of Philosophy holds an essay prize competition. The winner will receive &pound\;1\,000 and &pound\;500 of CUP books. Their essay will be published in <em>Philosophy</em>.</p>\n<p>Previous winners include &lsquo\;Aristotle and the Ageing Body&rsquo\; by Edward Lamb (2025 prize winner)\, &lsquo\;Overactive and Underactive Imagination&rsquo\; by Emily Caddick Bourne and Craig Bourne (2024 prize winner)\, &lsquo\;The Emptiness of Naturalism&rsquo\; by Thomas Raleigh and &lsquo\;Scorekeeping in a Therapeutic Language Game&rsquo\; by Stefan Rinner (2023 joint prize winners)\, &lsquo\;Fitting Diminishment of Anger: A Permissivist Account&rsquo\; by Renee Rushing and &lsquo\;Empathy and Psychopaths&rsquo\; Inability to Grieve&rsquo\; by Michael Cholbi (2022 joint prize winners).</p>\n<p><strong>The topic for this year&rsquo\;s prize is &lsquo\;Humans and AI&rsquo\;.</strong></p>\n<p>We intend this topic to be understood broadly\, so as to include related issues in any area of philosophy and from any philosophical tradition.</p>\n<p>The submission deadline is <strong>31 December 2026 23:59 GMT.</strong> Entries will be considered by a panel of judges and the winner will be announced in Spring/Summer 2027. All entries will be deemed submissions to <em>Philosophy</em> and as such should not be submitted elsewhere.</p>\n<p>In assessing entries priority will be given to originality\, clarity of expression\, breadth of interest\, and potential for advancing discussion.</p>\n<p>In exceptional circumstances the prize may be awarded jointly\, in which case the prize money and CUP books will be divided. The winning entry/entries will be published in the October 2027 issue of Philosophy.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The word limit for the Essay Competition is <strong>8\,000 words</strong>. Entries should be <strong>anonymised and suitable for blind review</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>Please submit entries by email to assistant@royalinstitutephilosophy.org</strong>\, with the subject line &lsquo\;Prize Essay&rsquo\;. (Please note that Essay Prize submissions should not be submitted through the ScholarOne portal\; please also note that this is <u>not</u> the <em>Think</em> Student Essay Prize\, announcements regarding which will be made separately).</p>\n&nbsp\;
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