Awards Grants Honors
CategoryAPA Announces Winners of 14 Prizes
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 14 of its prizes. (more…)
APA Announces Grant Winners
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced which projects will be funded during the 2022-23 academic year by its Diversity and Inclusiveness Grant Program and its Small Grant Program. (more…)
Morton wins Grawemeyer Award in Education
Jennifer Morton, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Education. (more…)
Berggruen Prize Awarded to Kojin Karatani
Kojin Karatani, a Japanese philosopher and literary theorist, has been selected as 2022 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. (more…)
Philosophers among Swiss National Science Foundation Grant Winners
The Swiss National Science Foundation recently announced which projects will be funded by their Starting Grants, and among them are two headed up by philosophers. (more…)
Philosophers Among Winners of ERC Starting Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its substantial, multi-year Starting Grants, and several philosophy faculty are among them. (more…)
Cryptocurrency Chaos Affects Academic Grants (updated)
The team at FTX Future Fund, a philanthropy aimed at funding projects “to improve humanity’s long-term prospects,” including philosophers William MacAskill and Nick Beckstead, resigned yesterday, following the sudden collapse earlier this week of FTX, the large, influential, and previously-relatively-well-regarded cryptocurrency exchange whose proceeds bankrolled it..
Floridi Wins Italy’s Highest Honor
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, as well as Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Bologna, has been awarded the Cavaliere di..
Large Grant Awarded to Philosopher for Work on Episodic Memory
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has recently announced its Future Leaders Fellowship Grant winners, and among them is a philosopher working on episodic memory. (more…)
2022 Sanders Metaphysics Prize Awarded
David Builes, assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University, and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello, a graduate student in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are the winners of the 2022 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics. (more…)
Change Their Minds, Win Money
The Future Fund, a philanthropic collective funded primarily by the creator of a crypto-currency exchange and aimed at supporting “ambitious projects to improve humanity’s long-term prospects,” has launched a contest offering substantial prizes for arguments that change their minds about the development and effects of artificial intelligence. (more…)
Nussbaum Wins Balzan Prize
Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, has been named one of the winners of the 2022 Balzan Prizes. (more…)
Philosophers Among Recent NSF Grant Winners (updated)
Several philosophers have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) over the past couple of months. (more…)
Lauener Prizes in Philosophy Awarded
The Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy last week awarded its two prizes. (more…)
2021 Philosopher’s Annual
Philosopher’s Annual has released its 41st volume, covering the literature from 2021. (more…)
Several Philosophers Win Recent Templeton Grants
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a number of grants over the past few months, and a few philosophers are among the recipients. (more…)
Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among the winners. (more…)
Dutilh Novaes Wins Lakatos Award
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, professor and university research chair in the Department of Philosophy at VU Amsterdam, is the winner of the 2022 Lakatos Award. (more…)
Vallor Wins Covey Award
Shannon Vallor, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, holder of the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the university’s Edinburgh Futures Institute, and director of its Centre for Technomoral Futures, has been named the winner of the 2022 Covey Award. (more…)
€1.5 Million Grant for Work on Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts
Yoav Meyrav, a research associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg, has been awarded a €1.5 million (approximately $1.58 million) grant for work on medieval Hebrew philosophical manuscripts. (more…)
Kelly & Rembert Win Pulitzer Prize
Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, together with the late Winfred Rembert, have won the the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography for their book, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South. (more…)
Two Philosophy Students Among Newcombe Fellows
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has announced its 2022 class of Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows, which includes two philosophy students. (more…)
Woollard Wins Journal of Applied Philosophy Prize
Fiona Woollard, professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, is the winner of the 2021 Journal of Applied Philosophy Essay Prize. (more…)
Philosophers Among Winners of ERC Advanced Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of its multimillion-euro “Advanced Grants,” and several philosophers are among them. (more…)
Philosopher Wins State-Wide Teaching Award in Texas
Manuela Alejandra Gomez, professor of philosophy at El Paso Community College (EPCC), was named a 2022 Piper Professor, an honor bestowed by the government of Texas to recognize excellence in teaching. (more…)
Davis Is Sole Philosopher In New Class of ACLS Fellows
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its new class of fellows, and there is one philosopher among them. (more…)
Philosophers Newly Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced its newly elected members, including several philosophers. (more…)
Goodin Wins Skytte Prize
Robert Goodin, emeritus professor of philosophy at Australian National University, is the winner of the 2022 Johann Skytte Prize in Political Science. (more…)