[Sighfis-l] Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information

[Rory Litwin]

Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of
Information

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1. Nature of the Award

1.1 The award shall consist of $1,000, given annually to a graduate student
who is working on a dissertation on the philosophy of information (broadly
construed). As we see it, the range of philosophical questions relating to
information is broad, and approachable through a variety of philosophical
traditions (philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of information so-called,
philosophy of science, etc.).

2. Purpose of the Award
2.1 The purpose of this award is to encourage and support scholarship in
the philosophy of information.

3. Eligibility

3.1 The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications:
(a) Be an active doctoral student whose primary area of research is
directly philosophical, whether the institutional setting is philosophy or
another discipline; that is to say, the mode of dissertation research must
be philosophical as opposed to empirical or literary study;
(b) Have completed all course work; and
(c) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution.

3.2 Recipients may receive the award not more than once.

4. Administration

4.1 The Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in
the Philosophy of Information is sponsored and administered by Litwin
Books, LLC, an independent scholarly publisher.

5. Nominations

5.1 Nominations should be submitted via email by June 1, to
award at litwinbooks.com.

5.2 The submission package should include the following:
(a) The accepted dissertation proposal;
(b) A description of the work done to date;
(c) A letter of recommendation from a dissertation committee member;
(d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae with current contact information.

6. Selection of the Awardee

6.1 Submissions will be judged on merit with emphasis on the following:
(a) Clarity of thought;
(b) Originality;
(c) Relevance to our time;
(d) Evidence of good progress toward completion.

7. Notification

7.1 The winner and any honorable mentions will be notified via letter by
July 1.

Advisory Board

Jonathan Furner
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA

Ron Day
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

Melissa Adler
College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky

Marlene Manoff
Independent Scholar, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Kay Mathiesen
School of Information, University of Arizona

Past Winners

2017: Timothy John Gorichanaz, of the Drexel University College of
Computing and Informatics, for his dissertation project, “Understanding
Self-Documentation.”

2016: Robert Montoya, of the UCLA Department of information studies, for
his dissertation project, tentatively titled, "Articulating Composite
Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification of Biodiversity
Databases."

2015: Quinn DuPont, of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information,
for his dissertation précis, titled, "Plaintext, Encryption, and
Ciphertext: A History of Cryptography and its Influence on Contemporary
Society."

2014: Patrick Gavin, of the University of Western Ontario FIMS, for his
dissertation propsoal, titled, "On Informationalized Borderzones: A Study
in the Politics and Ethics of Emerging Border Architectures."

2013: Steve McKinlay, of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales,
Australia, for his dissertation proposal, titled, "Information Ethics and
the Problem of Reference."
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