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The International Berkeley Society
TURBAYNE PRIZE
Colin and Ailsa
Turbayne
International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition
Professor
and Mrs. Colin Turbayne established an
International Berkeley Essay Prize competition in cooperation with the
Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester.
The
next deadline for submitting papers is November 1, 2008. Submitted papers should address some
aspect of Berkeley's philosophy. Essays should be new and
unpublished and should be written in English and not exceed 5,000 words in
length. All references to Berkeley should be to Luce
& Jessop, and a MLA or similar standard for
notes should be followed. Submissions are blind reviewed and will be judged
by members of a review board selected by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. The winner will be announced March
1, 2009 and will
receive a prize of $2,000. Copies of winning essays are to be sent to the George Berkeley Library Study Center located in Berkeley’s home in Whitehall, Newport, RI.
Submissions
should be sent on paper (not in e-mails or as e-mail attachments) to:
Chair, Department of Philosophy
University of Rochester
PO
Box 270078
Lattimore 532
Rochester, NY 14627-0078.
HistoryColin Turbayne (1916-2006) was a professor of the
philosophy department at the University of Rochester from 1957 to 1980. When he established the prize in 1988, Turbayne
said, "I wanted to advance Berkeley
scholarship throughout the world, and I wanted to help the University's
philosophy department, where I spent 23 years."
The first four prize-winning essays were
subsequently published in the collection edited by Robert Muehlmann,
Berkeley's
Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays (1995).
The
following links may also be of interest:
Past prize winners
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1990
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Phillip D. Cummins
(University of Iowa)
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"Berkeley's
Manifest Qualities Thesis," later published in the Journal of the
History of Philosophy 28 (1990), 385-401, and reprinted in Berkeley's
Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann
(1995), pp. 107-125.
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1991
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Robert G. Muehlmann
(University of Western Ontario)
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"The Substance of Berkeley's
Philosophy", later published in Berkeley's Metaphysics, edited
by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995), pp. 89-105.
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1992
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Lisa Downing
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
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"Berkeley’s
Case Against Realism About Dynamics", later published in Berkeley's
Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann
(1995), pp 197-214.
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1993
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George Pappas
(Ohio State University)
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"Berkeley
and Scepticism".
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Alan Hausman
(Hunter College, CUNY)
and David Hausman
(Dedman
College)
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"A New Approach to Berkeley's
Ideal Reality", later published in Berkeley's Metaphysics,
edited by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995).
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1994
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No award
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1995
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Stephen Harris
(College of William & Mary)
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"Berkeley's
Argument from Perceptual Relativity"
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1996
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No award
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1997
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1998
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1999
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Margaret Atherton
(University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
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"Mr. Abbott and Prof. Fraser: A 19th Century Debate
About Berkeley's Theory of Vision", later published as Report 19/96 Forschungsgruppe,
Perception and the Role of Evolutionary Internalized Regularities, Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung,
University of Bielefeld, 1996.
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2001
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John Carriero
(University of California
at Los Angeles)
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"Immaterialism, The New Science, and Immediate
Perception."
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Todd Ryan
(Trinity College)
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"A New Account of Berkeley's
Likeness Principle"
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2003
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Michael Collins
Allers
(University of Michigan)
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"A Worry about Divine Perception in Berkeley's
Philosophy"
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2005
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Laurence Carlin
(University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh)
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“Teleology and Phenomenalism in
Leibniz and Berkeley”
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2007
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Jeffrey McDonough
(Harvard University)
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"Berkeley, Human Agency and Divine Concurrentism"
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