The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of a new prize in honor of the late philosopher Stephen J. White.

White died in 2021 at the age of 38.

The White Prize will be awarded biennially “to the best published paper by a junior philosopher that engages directly with Professor White’s work or with themes that were central to his thinking,” says the APA. Those themes include (but are not limited to):

• • Issues of moral responsibility, in particular what we should take responsibility for and to
    what extent we are especially responsible for our own lives;
  • Issues of practical reasoning, in particular whether and how predictions about how we or
    others are likely to act should figure in our thinking about what to do;
  • Issues about shared reasoning and mutual answerability;
  • The relation between a group’s obligations (e.g., our collective obligation to address and
    mitigate climate change) and the individual obligations of the group’s members.

The prize winner will receive $1,000 (if there are co-winners, they will split the prize amount equally).

Submissions are open now through July 15th for the inaugural White Prize. More details are available here.