CFP & Paper Prize

Submissions for the 2024 NEN Paper Prize are now closed! Thanks to everyone who submitted!

For NEN5 (June 7-8, 2024, at the University of Maryland, College Park), we’ve decided to run a community-funded, community-refereed paper award. We invite papers on any topic in normative philosophy, very broadly construed (e.g., political philosophy, normative epistemology, metaethics, first-order normative ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of law, etc.) Submissions are due November 30. You can submit a paper, or reserve a slot for submission, here (note: submissions must be < 7500 words, including notes, in PDF format, and prepared for blind review); we also have a page with FAQs. There are four basic steps involved in the process.

Step 1: Authors submit papers (due November 30) & pay the submission fee

Submit a paper (or reserve a submision slot) here. All papers are due November 30. Submissions are open to all. Every submission must pay a $22 fee, which is added to the Prize Pool.¹After ~$1.06 in Stripe fees. Note that attendance at the workshop is free. Registration will be available in the Spring.

Step 2: Authors decide the finalists

Every author is responsible for scoring two submissions according to a standardized rubric.²The rubric will be available for public comment in early December, after all submissions are in. The top 5 papers are the finalists.

Step 3: Authors decide the winning paper(s) from among the finalists

The top 5 papers are then subject to a round of Condorcet voting by the entire community of authors (except for the authors of the finalist papers!)

Step 4: Prize(s) announced!

1-3 papers (depending on the number of submissions) are selected on the basis of the overall ranking in the Condorcet poll to divide 100% of the Prize Pool amongst them. Winners are invited to present their work at the NEN 5 Workshop.

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  After ~$1.06 in Stripe fees. Note that attendance at the workshop is free. Registration will be available in the Spring.
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  The rubric will be available for public comment in early December, after all submissions are in.