30.1218, FYI: Beth Dissertation Prize 2019

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Subject: 30.1218, FYI: Beth Dissertation Prize 2019

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:40:33
From: Alice ter Meulen [alicetermeulen at gmail.com]
Subject: Beth Dissertation Prize 2019

 
E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2019

Call for Nominations:

Deadline April 15, 2019 
Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has
been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D.
dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information
(http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth
Foundation
(https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-
beth-foundation). Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in
these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree conferred in 2018.

Qualifications:

- A dissertation is eligible for the Beth dissertation prize 2019, if the
Ph.D. degree has been conferred in Logic, Language, or Information between
January 1st and December 31, 2018.
- There are no restrictions on the nationality, ethnicity, age, gender or
employment status of the author of the nominated dissertation, nor on the
university, academic department or scientific institution formally conferring
the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has originally
been written.  
- In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend the
work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth
(https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-
beth) nominations are invited of excellent dissertations on current topics in
philosophical and mathematical logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of
language, history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and
scientific philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and
foundational developments in information and computation, language and
cognition. Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research
areas in their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited.
- If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language other
than English, its dossier should still contain the required 10 page English
abstract, see below. If the committee decides that a nominated dissertation in
a language other than English requires translation to English for proper
evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to the competition in
2020. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the
deadline of the call for nominations in 2020. The committee may recommend the
Beth Foundation to consider supporting such nominated dissertations for
English translation, upon request by the author of the dissertation.

Prize:

- a certificate of the award
- a monetary award of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation
- an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for
publication in the FoLLI

Nomination Dossier:

Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. The following
documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier:

1. The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable). 
2. A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main
results of each chapter.
3. A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely
describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when the
degree was officially conferred and the members of the Ph.D. committee.
Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of the
nominator. 
4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee
not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree,
nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers, supervisors,
co-authors, publishers or personal relatives) or the dissertation. 
5. Self-nominations are not possible.

All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, preferably as one zip
file, to the https://easychair.org, Beth 2019. Hard copy submissions are not
allowed, without exception.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language





 



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