Notices

The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2000) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2012: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, for her American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas, published by the University of Chicago Press.

The awards committee favors books which are published in English and which display some interdisciplinary range, demonstrate sound scholarship, and make an original contribution to the history of thought and culture.

Submissions are limited to the first book published by any author and to books published in English (no translations or collections of essays) pertaining to one or more of the major disciplines associated with “intellectual history” broadly conceived: viz., history (including the history of various arts and sciences), philosophy (including the philosophy of science, aesthetics, and other fields), political thought (including economics, social science, and anthropology), and literature (including literary criticism and theory). The judges will favor publications displaying sound scholarship, original conceptualization, and significant chronological and interdisciplinary scope. For further information please visit our website at http://jhi.pennpress.org.

The Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize ($500) for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas each year. The winner for Volume 72 (2011) is Daniel Lee, for “Popular Liberty, Princely Government, and the Roman Law in Hugo Grotius’s De Jure Belli ac Pacis,” Volume 72, Number 3, pages 371–92.

Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition

The late Professor and Mrs. Colin Turbayne established an International Berkeley Essay Prize competition in cooperation with the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester.

Submitted papers should address some aspect of Berkeley’s philosophy. Essays should be new and unpublished and should be written in English and not exceed 5,000 words in length. All references to Berkeley should be to Luce/Jessop, and a MLA or similar standard for notes should be followed. Submissions are blind reviewed and will be judged by members of a review board selected by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. The winner will be announced March 1, 2015 and will receive a prize of $2,000. A copy of the winning essay will be sent to the George Berkeley Library Study Center located in Berkeley’s home in Whitehall, Newport, Rhode Island.

The next deadline for submitting papers is November 1, 2014. Submissions can be sent electronically to: phladmin@philosophy.rochester.edu or by post mail: Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester, P.O. Box 270078, Lattimore 532, Rochester, NY 14627-0078.