CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars

The CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars invited young researchers to submit a scholarly essay on a relevant topic in the field of consciousness studies, framed within the scope and aims of the CNCC original call for proposal. Two prizes were offered of € 1.500 each. 

The CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars was open to researchers in the field of consciousness studies who are PhD students at the moment or who had recently completed their PhD, i.e. dissertation was defended no earlier than June 30, 2005. By the deadline of 15 February 2008, 43 eligible submissions were received. 

After an international reviewing stage, 6 finalist papers were short-listed:

• Indicative Conditionals and Rationality    
  Simone Duca, University of Bristol

• On the Necessity of Bodily Awareness for Bodily Action   
   Julian Kiverstein, University of Edinburgh

• Searching for the Source of Executive Attention   
  Catherine Stinson, University of Pittsburgh

• Acting On (Bodily) Experience   
  Adrian Smith, Johannes Gutenberg University

• The Agent in Magenta: Action, Colour and Consciousness    
   Dave Ward, University of Edinburgh

• The Minimal Sense of Self, Temporality and the Brain   
   Hong Yu Wong, University College London

Abstracts can be found here.

 At the end of a special event organised in Edinburgh on 27 July 2008, devoted to the presentation and discussion of the six finalist papers, the jury announced the two winners of an amount of € 1.500 each:

Dave Ward, from the University of Edinburgh, and
Hong Yu Wong, from University College London