The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of their latest round of grants, and a number of philosophers are among the winners.

They and their projects are:

• Jacob Beck (York University)
  Minds without Language: Research and writing leading to a book offering a pluralistic account of the processes of human thought informed by cognitive science. $60,000

• Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
  Aquinas on Space and Spatial Location: Research and writing leading to a book on philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas’s (1225–1274) theories on motion, space, and location. $60,000

• Stephen Darwall (Yale University)
  Modern Moral Philosophy After Kant: Research and writing leading to a book on the history of moral philosophy from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. $60,000

• Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
  Epistemic Reparations: Research and writing leading to a book on the rights of victims to epistemic justice by being known and heard by the parties who wronged them. $60,000

• Emily McRae (University of New Mexico)
  Moral Ignorance in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy: Research and writing leading to a book about the obstacles to moral knowledge according to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism philosophy. $60,000

• Alexander Sager with Deborah Arthur, Charles Klein, and Monica Mueller (Portland State University)
  Identity, Transformation, and Agency: The Humanities Inside Oregon’s Only Prison for Women: a two-year project to expand the university’s Higher Education in Prison program. $149,989

The NEH awarded $28.1 million to 204 projects. Philosophers were awarded $449,989 across 6 projects, or 1.6% of the total funds across 2.94% of the total number of projects.

You can read more about the grants here.