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Date: 	Fri, 5 May 2017 07:47:33 -0700
From: 	Rory Litwin <rlitwin at gmail.com>
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Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of 
Information
(Please forward to appropriate individuals and groups.)

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 <mailto: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
University of Arizona


Past Winners

2016 Robert Montoya, of the UCLA Department of information studies, for 
his dissertation project, tentatively titled, 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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