The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the finalists for its 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

The £20,000 annual prize aims to “reward the most original philosophical research that transcends academic disciplines.”

It recognizes books that:

• demonstrate rigorous original and quality transdisciplinary research
• are accessible and engaging to read
• are original, innovative, and impactful
• intend to advance and contribute to the understanding of human behaviours.

The authors and books on the longlist for this year’s prize are:

• Chris Armstrong (Southampton), Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis (Oxford University Press). 
• Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman (Berggruen Institute), Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis (Stanford University Press). 
• Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh), The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (The MIT Press). 
• Joseph LeDoux (NYU), The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human (Harvard University Press). 
• Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (UC Santa Cruz), Jennifer Deger (Charles Darwin), Alder Keleman Saxena (Northern Arizona), and Feifei Zhou(Columbia), Field Guide to Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press) 
• Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh), The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press). 

The prize is sponsored by philosopher and neuroscientist Nayef Al-Rodhan.  You can learn more about it here and here.