Awards Grants Honors
CategoryDavid Miller Wins ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award
Political theorist and philosopher David Miller of Nuffield College, Oxford University, has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). (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…)
Philosophers Win ERC Advanced Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) recently announced the winners of their “Advanced Grants” for well-established researchers. Two philosophers were among the winners. (more…)
Pickup Wins Sanders 2020 Metaphysics Award
Martin Pickup, Turpin Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, is the winner of the 2020 Metaphysics Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.
NEH Awards Grants to Several Philosophers
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its latest round of grants, and several philosophers are among them. (more…)
Two Philosophers Awarded ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named the winners of its Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships, and two philosophers are among them. (more…)
Two Philosophers Win National Humanities Center Fellowships
The National Humanities Center has announced its 2020-2021 residential fellows, and there are two philosophers among them. (more…)
Callard & Paul Win 2020 Lebowitz Prize
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) have selected Agnes Callard and L.A. Paul as the winners of the 2020 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. (more…)
Two Philosophers Win ACLS Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2020 class of fellows. (more…)
Philosophers Among New Class of Guggenheim Fellows
Several scholars with appointments in philosophy are among the winners of this years Guggenheim Fellowships. (more…)
Philosophers Win $1.3 Million Grant to Study Epistemic Progress in the University
A trio of philosophers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have won €1.2 million (approximately $1.3 million) grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to study how universities can best enable epistemic progress in the humanities. (more…)
Schock Prize Awarded to Prawitz and Martin-Löf
The 2020 Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy has been awarded to two philosophers from Stockholm University, Dag Prawitz and Per Martin-Löf. (more…)
Philosophy & Psychology Team Win Million-Dollar Grant for Work on Intellectual Humility
Mark Alfano, associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, along with Jay Van Bavel, associate professor of psychology at New York University (NYU) and Philip Pärnamets, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at NYU, have won a AU$1,382,150 (approximately $924,000) grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility. (more…)..
Philosopher Wins NEA Grant for Exhibit on Fashion and Art
William Paterson University will be getting $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to develop an exhibition on fashion, art, and philosophy as a result of a successful grant application by assistant professor of philosophy Laura T. DiSumma-Knoop and  Kristen Evangelista, director of the William Paterson University Galleries. (more…)
Reed-Sandoval’s “Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands Field School” Wins Major Grant
Amy Reed-Sandoval, assistant professor of philosophy and participating faculty in the Latinx and Latin American Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has won a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship to support her Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands Field School. (more…)
International Journal of Philosophical Studies Prizes
The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS) has selected the winner of its 2019 Robert Papazian Essay Competition. (more…)
Eva Feder Kittay’s Recent Book Wins 2020 Prose Award for Philosophy
The Association of American Publishers has announced the Subject Category winners of its Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards. (more…)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy Awards Best Article Prize
The British Journal for the History of Philosophy has announced the recipient of the 2019 Rogers Prize, its annual best article prize. (more…)
Royal Institute of Philosophy 2019 Essay Prize Results
The Royal Institute of Philosophy, a charitable organization aimed at promoting philosophy, has announced the results of its 2019 essay contest, which had the theme of “the significance of paradoxes.” (more…)
The BJPS Referee Of The Year Award
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has a “Referee of the Year” award. (more…)
$2.6 Million Funding for Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider
An interdisciplinary research group has received funding totalling approximately US$2.6 million to pursue its study of “the world’s largest research instrument”: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. (more…)
Philosophers Win NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of its most recent round of grants, and several philosophy faculty are among them. (more…)
Journal of the History of Philosophy Article Prize
The Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has selected Jessica Moss (New York University) and Whitney Schwab (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) as the winners of the journal’s 2019 Best Article Prize. (more…)
Philosophy Foundation Co-Founder Recognized in New Years Honours
Emma Worley, co-founder and co-chief executive officer of The Philosophy Foundation, was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) as part of the 2020 New Years Honours.
Sarah Moss Wins Sanders Epistemology Prize
Sarah Moss, professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, has won the 2019 Sanders Prize in Epistemology. (more…)
Chalmers Chosen to Deliver 2020 Sanders Lecture
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has selected David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University, to deliver the 2020 Sanders Lecture. (more…)
Sandra Dwyer & Claire Katz Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
Sandra Dwyer, principal senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, and Claire Katz, Associate Dean of Faculties, the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching in the Liberal Arts, and a Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, are the winners of the 2019 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching. (more…)..
Boden Wins Barwise Prize
Margaret “Maggie” Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, has won the 2019 K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA). (more…)