The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize.
They are:
Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology & Neuroscience, a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and Principal Investigator of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Laboratory (IMC Lab) at the Duke Institute for Brain Science
and
Sarah Robins, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and founding co-director of Purdue’s Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC).
The Lebowitz Prize is jointly awarded by the APA and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Its winners must be two philosophers who hold contrasting views on a chosen topic of current interest in philosophy. They present their views and engage in a dialogue at an annual Lebowitz symposium, held during an APA divisional meeting. Each winner receives an honorarium of $25,000.
You can learn more about the prize and see a list of its past winners here.
Congrats to the recipients! Can someone knowledgeable in the area tell the rest of us what issue they “hold contrasting views on”? I only guess it involves memory traces or theories of remembering.