We had a wonderful conference this year, and all
the conference presentations are available online. There were many
excellent presentations and papers. We have chosen to extend a best
paper award to the top 1/3rd of the papers submitted to the conference,
(the top 6 papers), with an invitation for them to have their papers
included in a published conference proceedings. Each paper was ranked by
three (and in some cases four) reviewers. No reviewer reviewed their
own paper.The decision was not just made based upon the quality of the
oral conference presentation, but also upon the suitability of each talk
for printed publication (the best talks are not always the best papers
and visa versa).
This award goes to, in alphabetical order:
Chris Bradford on “Bodies Without End: Embodiment in a Substrate-Independent World”
Brad Carmack on “Mormonism Beyond the Gender Binary”
James Carroll on “Epiphenomenalism, the Problem with Property Dualism”
Marcus Flinders on “Taxation in a Millennial World”
Karl Hale on “Worshiping an Extra-Terrestrial Humanoid Deity”
Micah Redding on “Transhumanism and the Christian Story”
The authors of these papers will have the
opportunity to have their papers published in a "proceedings" if they so
choose. This proceedings will be available online, and (perhaps) also
in print form. This final proceedings should be considered a peer
reviewed publication. The inclusion of their papers in the proceedings
is conditional upon their acceptance, and their working with our editors
to get the papers up to publishable standards, complete with a uniform
format, and with sufficient citations etc. If some authors aren't
interested, we will extend an additional invitation to one of the
runners up.
Several very excellent papers were not considered
for this award or for publication in the proceedings, because the
authors have expressed a desire to extend these papers, and publish them
in a journal format elsewhere. In some cases these papers were very
good, and otherwise might have been chosen. We would like to extend each
of these authors a special invitation to consider submitting these
papers to be included in the first edition of the new MTA sponsored
Journal. Whether they choose our journal to submit their excellent
papers to, we wish them all the best in finding an appropriate venue for
their excellent work.
Thanks again to all who participated,
James L. Carroll
Proceedings Editor
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