Sanders Graduate Student Prizes Awarded

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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2015 Sanders Graduate Student Prize, sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation. They are:

  • Joshua Brandt (University of Toronto), “Partiality’s Negative Analogue”
  • Kevin Dorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “A Contextualist Solution to Miner Disagreements”
  • Matthew Shields (Georgetown University), “Can Reality Be Resisted? The Limits of Haslanger’s Account of Social Construction”

The prize includes $1000. The papers will be presented at the 2016 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA.

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S L B
S L B
8 years ago

I tried to find the Dorst presentation online with no success. This is some sort of philosophy having to do with miners? As in people digging riches from the earth? I’m curious to know more.

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8 years ago

It’s referring to the problem discussed in Ifs and Oughts by Kolodny and MacFarlane. An abstract of Dorst’s paper can be found here (https://kevindorst.mit.edu/research).

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