Category: Awards Grants Honors
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Choosing Keynote Speakers
A couple of graduate students are seeking advice on how to select keynote speakers for a conference they’re organizing.
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APA Announces Winners of the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
Each year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) awards the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize, given to the two best published articles in philosophy written by its…
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Philosophers Win Large Grants from ARC
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the winners of its latest round of funding awards, and two philosophers have been awarded large grants.
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UCLA Philosophy Receives $25 Million Donation
The Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a gift of $25 million in honor of philosophy professor David Kaplan and Renée Kaplan,…
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Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Winners
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its starting grants. The grants provide support of up to €1.5 million (approximately $1.75 million)…
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Philosophers Elected to the British Academy
The British Academy, an organization which, among other things, selects scholars in the humanities and social sciences as “fellows” to recognize their academic distinction, has included a…
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Berman Institute Receives $15 Million Donation
The Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has received a $15 million donation to “to support the education and training of future…
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2018 Lakatos Award Winners Announced
The Lakatos Award is given annually “for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published…
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Australasian Association of Philosophy Announces Award Winners
The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) has announced the winners of its 2017 Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP) Best Paper Award and 2018 Annette…
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McDaniel Wins APA’s 2018 Sanders Book Prize
Kris McDaniel, professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, is the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2018 Sanders Book Prize, for his book, The Fragmentation…
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$860,000 Grant to Study Kantian Ethics
What is the “political-theoretical background” of the central concepts of Kantian ethics? Pauline Kleingeld, professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, was just awarded…
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Raz Wins Tang Prize in Rule of Law
Joseph Raz (Columbia Law School, Kings College London), well-known for his work in legal, political, and moral philosophy, is the 2018 winner of the…
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Lebron Wins Hiett Prize in the Humanities
Chris Lebron, associate professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, is the winner of the 2018 Hiett Prize in the Humanities.
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Philosopher Wins $1.8 Million Grant to Study Minority Entrepreneurship
Chris Surprenant, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans (UNO) and director of the university’s Honors Program, has won an $1.8 million grant…
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Lauener Foundation Prize Winners Announced
The Lauener Foundation for Analytic Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2018 awards for Outstanding Oeuvre in Analytical Philosophy and Up-and-Coming Philosopher.
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Mind Graduate Essay Prize Winner
The academic philosophy journal Mind and Oxford University Press have announced that the winning essay in the Mind graduate essay contest is “Illocutionary Frustration” by Samia Hesni,…
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Cameron Buckner Wins APA Article Prize
Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, has won the 2018 Article Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA).