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Prize Competition Type: Essay Prize for Global Priorities Research Institution: Global Priorities Institute (GPI), University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Deadline: 1.7.2021 __________________________________________________ The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) is pleased to announce an essay prize inviting submissions on topics in global priorities research from graduate students currently pursuing master’s level courses in philosophy. The winning entry will be published as a working paper on GPI’s website and the winner will receive a prize of £1,000. Who is eligible? In order to be eligible for the prize, you must be pursuing a graduate degree in philosophy equivalent to an MA or MPhil degree, which will typically include candidates in the coursework stage of a US PhD. Global priorities research There are many problems in the world. Because our resources are scarce, it is impossible to solve them all. An actor seeking to improve the world as much as possible therefore needs to prioritise, both among the problems themselves and (relatedly) among means for tackling them. This requires careful analysis. Some opportunities to do good are vastly more cost-effective than others, but identifying which are the better opportunities requires grappling with a host of complex questions - questions about how to evaluate different outcomes, how to predict the effects of our actions, how to act in the face of uncertainty, how to identify more practically usable proxies for the criteria we ultimately care about, and many other topics. Essay submissions should address philosophical questions of this kind: that is, philosophical questions of crucial practical importance for agents trying to set priorities in a way that is suitably informed by concern for what will best promote the impartial good. For further details, please see the GPI research agenda: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-agenda/ Note, however, that entries for the prize need not address questions from this agenda where candidates believe there are other philosophical questions of crucial importance for global priorities research. Format Submissions should be made via this form: https://paperform.co/edit/vnwkfyb4 The linked form will also ask you to record the title of the submission, the word count, as well as your personal details. Submissions should be in English, double-spaced, and no more than 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions should be prefaced by an abstract of 50-200 words. Submissions should be anonymised. They must be single-authored and only one submission per person is permitted. Essays on which candidates have previously received feedback from supervisors or assessors remain eligible for submission, however. Timeline The deadline for submission is 1 July 2021. Following the deadline, we aim to announce the winning entry within a month. In the event that no submission is judged to be of sufficient quality, GPI reserves the right to award no prize. Further information about the prize is available on our website: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/essay-prize-for-global-priorities-research/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________