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> Inaugural Cushing Memorial Prize Awarded to Hans Halvorson
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> The Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame and the Cushing Memorial Prize Advisory Committee are pleased to announce the award of the first Cushing Memorial Prize to Professor Hans Halvorson of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, for his paper:
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> "> Reeh-Schlieder Defeats Newton-Wigner: On Alternative Localization Schemes in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.> ">  Philosophy of Science 68 (2001), 111-133.
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> The $1,000 prize was awarded on Friday, September 3, 2004 in conjunction with Professor Halvorson> '> s delivering at Notre Dame an invited lecture under the title, > "> No Eliminative Materialism, No Quantum Measurement Problem.> "> 
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> Professsor Halvorson was the Selection Committee> '> s strong and unanimous choice. It is noteworthy that Professor Halvorson was independently nominated by several different peopl Those who nominated him had the highest praise for his scholarship. One nomination read:
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> "> I find the quality (and quantity) of Hans> '>  work truly remarkable. He strikes me as the strongest philosopher of physics to come along since Michael Dickson and Rob Clifton, and the one most likely to play a leading role in coming years as more and more philosophers of physics turn their attention to issues in the foundations of algebraic quantum field theory. He brings to the subject a mastery of certain essential mathematical tools (in particular, the theory of operator algebras) that very few, if any, philosophers of physics have. He also brings remarkable originality, clear headedness, and good judgment. He is able to make things clear that seemed muddy before, and has the raw mathematical talent to prove non-trivial theorems that bear on important foundational issues.> "> 
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> The Cushing Memorial Prize is awarded annually for the best work by a younger scholar on the history and philosophy of physics. The prize honors the memory of the late James T. Cushing (1937-2002), long-time professor of physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science at the University of Notre Dame. The prize is administered by Notre Dame> '> s Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science with the assistance of a distinguished international advisory committee composed of Professor Cushing> '> s students, friends, and professional colleagues. The members of the Advisory Committee are:
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> Yuri Balashov (University of Georgia) 
> Mara Beller (Hebrew University) 
> Darrin Belousek (Lithuania Christian College) 
> Alisa Bokulich (Boston University) 
> Gary Bowman (Northern Arizona University) 
> Jeremy Butterfield (Oxford University) 
> Michael Dickson (University of South Carolina) 
> Arthur Fine (University of Washington) 
> Don Howard (Notre Dame) 
> Ernan McMullin (Notre Dame) 
> Michael Redhead (London School of Economics)
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> For further information, please visit the website for the Cushing Memorial Prize:
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> http://www.nd.edu/~cushpriz/
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> or contact:
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> Professor Don Howard, Director
> History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program
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