Topic: Any topic on or related to the work of Charles Sanders Peirce.
Awards:
Submission Deadline: January 16\, 2012.
Length: Because the winning essay may be published in the Transactions\, \nthe length of contest submissions should be about the length of an \naverage journal article. The maximum acceptable length is 10\,000 words\, \nincluding notes. The presentation of the winning submission at the \nannual meeting cannot exceed 30 minutes reading time.
Open to: Graduate students and persons who have held a Ph.D. or its \nequivalent for no more than seven years. Entries from students who have \nnot yet begun their graduate training will not be considered. Past \nwinners of the contest are ineligible. Joint submissions are allowed \nprovided that all authors satisfy the eligibility requirements.
Advice to Essay Contest Entrants:
The winning entry will make a genuine contribution to the literature on \nPeirce. Therefore\, entrants should become familiar with the major \ncurrents of work on Peirce to date and take care to locate their views \nin relation to published material that bears directly on their topic.
Entrants should note that scholarly work on Peirce frequently benefits \nfrom the explicit consideration of the historical development of his \nviews. Even a submission that focuses on a single stage in that \ndevelopment can benefit from noting the stage on which it focuses in \nreference to other phases of Peirce's treatment of the topic under \nconsideration. (This advice is not intended to reflect a bias toward \nchronological studies\, but merely to express a strong preference for a \nchronologically informed understanding of Peirce's philosophy.) We do not require but strongly encourage\, where appropriate\, citation of\n the Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. Ideally\, \ncitation of texts found in both the Collected Papers and the Writings \nshould be to both CP and W.
Submissions should be prepared for blind evaluation and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Cover letter or email should include complete contact information\, \nincluding mailing address and phone numbers\, and a statement that the \nentrant meets the eligibility requirements of the contest.
Electronic submissions are preferred. Submissions should be sent as \nemail attachments (Microsoft Word documents\, RTF files\, or PDF files \nonly) to Robert Lane\, secretary-treasurer of the Society: rlane@westga.edu .
Please include "Peirce Essay Contest Submission" in the subject line of your email.
Submissions by traditional mail are also acceptable. Please mail submissions to:
Robert Lane
Philosophy Program
University of West Georgia
Carrollton\, GA 30118
Attn: Peirce Essay Contest