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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:47:46 EDT
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Subject:      Call for papers: short essays on philosophy (Xposted from
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From:         Analysis <PI1PJS@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject:      ANALYSIS news
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This newsletter is being posted on more than one list: apologies if you
receive two or three copies!
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SECOND ANALYSIS COMPETITION: Early notice.

The first ANALYSIS Essay Competition, in 1991, proved a popular and successful
innovation (sixtysix entries from eleven countries: winning papers were
published in the October 1991 issue).  The ANALYSIS Committee has therefore
decided to run a second competition in 1993, and entries are invited.
The rules and prizes are much as before:

*  Papers may be on any topic broadly in keeping with the traditional
   concerns of the journal.
*  An upper limit of 4000 words, including footnotes (though excluding
   any end-list of references), will be strictly applied.
*  Entries (two copies, prepared for blind refereeing, accompanied by a
   word-count and clearly marked 'Competition') must be received no later
   than 31 March 1993.
*  Authors should be aged 30 or under on that date (though prospective
   entrants with interrupted academic careers, who believe that there are
   grounds for relaxing the age rule in their case may consult the Editor).
*  The first prize will be 500 pounds, with an additional 100 pounds worth
   of books donated by Blackwell Publishers. Further prizes totalling 500
   pounds will also be awarded, divided at the judges' discretion.
*  The winning essays, with a selection of other entries, will be published
   together in the October 1993 issue of ANALYSIS.

Entries should be sent to the Editor, Peter Smith, Department of Philosophy,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England.

Please bring the Competition to the attention of graduate students and others
likely to be interested.  (It is perhaps worth noting that ANALYSIS does not
normally publish pieces on the interpretation of the Great Dead Philosophers;
and merely negative scholastic pieces criticizing Z's reply to Y's criticisms
of a footnote in X are not likely to win, however true!)

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ANALYSIS and DTP

ANALYSIS was founded in 1933 as a forum for the very rapid publication of
short discussion pieces.  Sixty years later, for 1993, ANALYSIS will be
going over to DTP methods of production; papers will standardly be set
from authors' disks.  This should speed up the production process
considerably and cut the delay in getting papers into print (already usually
short) even further.  We hope that it will again become very common, as in
the earliest days, for authors to see their work in print within three
months of submission.  (The journal will also look prettier inside!
- though by popular request the familiar red cover design, almost unchanged
from the first issue, will remain.)

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FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS

The April issue of ANALYSIS is another expanded issue which contains
(as well as papers by Anthony Brueckner, Tomis Kapitan, and Jonathan Wolff),
six debates:

Van Inwagen on the Consequence Argument                    Christopher Hill
   Reply to Christopher Hill                              Peter Van Inwagen
Urbach on the laws of nature                          Christopher Hitchcock
   Reply to Hitchcock                                          Peter Urbach
Conditionals and transitivity: response to Lowe         Murali Ramachandran
   Reply to Ramachandran on conditionals and transitivity         E.J. Lowe
Penrose and mathematical ability                        William S. Robinson
   Comments on `Penrose and mathematical ability'             Roger Penrose
Could there be conjunctive universals?                          Alex Oliver
   There are no conjunctive universals                          D.H. Mellor
Whyte on the individuation of desires                       Roger Teichmann
   Weak-kneed desires                                            J.T. Whyte

The July issue will contain papers by (among others) Kent Bach, James Cargile,
David-Hillel Ruben and Crispin Wright.

Those tempted to take out a subscription (how can you possibly resist? -
ANALYSIS for a year for less than a couple of beers a month!), can either
e-mail
    ANALYSIS@UK.AC.SHEF.PA
    [or: ANALYSIS@PA.SHEF.AC.UK, depending how your mail server
     parses addresses]
for a form, or send $26 USA, 12 pounds Europe, 15.50 pounds elsewhere,
by cheque or full credit card details direct to the publishers:.

    Blackwell Publishers                        Blackwell Publishers
    108 Cowley Road                             Three Cambridge Center
    Oxford, OX4 1JF   UK                        Cambridge MA 02142  USA

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Finally, I note that submission rates to ANALYSIS are markedly up, with 117
papers arriving in the first three months of 1992 alone, about 50% up on
what I would normally expect for the period. Are philosophers suddenly
feeling more positive and productive (difficult to believe in these
straitened times)? Is it a 'publish or perish' panic? Or do discerning
philosophers out there rate ANALYSIS (even) higher these days? Whatever
the reason, it is on balance good news (though if you are one of those
finding that the editorial wheels are turning rather more slowly at them
moment, I hope you'll understand.)

:-)

Peter Smith
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