SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
MARCELO DASCAL PRIZE - 2015
The Marcelo Dascal Prize will be awarded to the three best papers selected on this track. It will be accepted only individual works by students or young research fellows, done without senior supervision. The first place winner will deliver a short talk about the work in a special session of EBICC-2015. The second and third places will deliver their talks at the regular communications sessions. The choosen papers will be published in the on-line annals.
Notice that this is a special call. Papers applying for this track are submitted indenpendently of the submissions to EBICC-2015. They should not be submitted to Easy Chair. Follow the instructions below.

 

Submission and deadline

  • Papers should be submitted to this track via e-mail - send it directly to: premiomarcelodascal@gmail.com
  • Rules for submission - the papers must conform to the rules indicated in these files:
  • NEW Deadline -October 12, 2015
  • Ethical consiterations - the works submitted to this track must conform to the ethical criteria manifested in this document..

 

MARCELO DASCAL - Biography

 
 

Marcelo Dascal is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where he has taught since 1967. He was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1995 to 2000. M.D. graduated in philosophy and electrical engineering at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He studied linguistics and epistemology in Aix-en-Provence (France) and obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel. M.D. was born in Brazil, and lives in Israel since 1965.

In Israel, he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he was the founder and first head of the Department of Philosophy. Abroad, he taught at the universities of São Paulo, Brasília, Campinas and Unisinos (Brazil), Lisboa (Portugal), Lugano (Switzerland), Massachusetts (Amherst), California (Berkeley), Monash (Melbourne, Australia), UNAM and UAM (Mexico), École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy), and others. M.D. devotes much of his energy to teaching, intent in contributing to the formation of the coming generation of high quality teachers and researchers.

 
M.D. held research positions at the universities of Indiana, Stuttgart, Bochum, Technische Univ. Berlin, UNED (Madrid) and the Centre d'Etudes de la Philosophie Moderne (CNRS, Paris), and conducted research on the pragmatics of native languages in the Amazon area. In 1985-1986 he was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (Wassenaar) and in 1994-1995 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the winter term of 2002/3, he was granted the Leibniz Professorship at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Leipzig University (Germany), where he was the first Leibniz scholar to hold this position.