Category: Awards Grants Honors
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Philosophy and Science Student Wins $10,000 Essay Prize
The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) has awarded a number of prizes in response to its call for essays answering the question, “What is fundamental?”,…
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Kit Fine & Stephen Yablo Win 2018 Lebowitz Prize
Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and Stephen Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute…
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Philosophers Awarded $1 Million Prizes for Work in Bioethics and History of Science
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute), Ezekiel Emanuel (University of Pennsylvania), Jonathan Glover (Kings College London), Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT), Simon Schaffer (Cambridge), and Mary Warnock (Oxford) are each…
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UNC/Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program Receives $3.75m Donation
The UNC–Duke Philosophy Politics, and Economics (PPE) Program has received a $3.75 million donation from the John William Pope Foundation (JWPF).
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Philosophers Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced its newly elected members, including several academics who work in philosophy.
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Philosophers Win Fellowships from ACLS
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced the scholars selected for its various fellowship programs. A few philosophers are among the fellows.
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Philosophers Among Latest Round of NEH Grant Winners (updated)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects. A number of philosophers are among the recipients.
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Philosophers Among Winners of ERC Advanced Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of its Advanced Grants. Funded by the European Union, the grants, totaling €653 million (approximately $802,000,000), went…
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Three Philosophers Win Guggenheim Fellowships (corrected)
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced today the winners of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships. Of the 173 fellowships awarded, three went to philosophers.
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Essay on Sexual Exclusivity Wins Journal of Applied Philosophy’s Annual Prize
“Is the Requirement of Sexual Exclusivity Consistent with Romantic Love?” That’s the title and central question of the paper selected as the winner of…
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Philosophers Win Mellon “New Directions” Fellowships
Two philosophers are among this year’s recipients of “New Directions” Fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Hartry Field Will Be 2018-2019 Romanell Lecturer
Hartry Field, Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, has been selected to give the 2018–2019 Romanell Lecture on Philosophical Naturalism at the 2019…
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Schock Prize Awarded to Saharon Shelah
Logician Saharon Shelah has won the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy.
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Nominations Open for $1 Million Berggruen Prize
Nominations are now open for the $1 million Berggruen Prize, which “that recognizes humanistic thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding…
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2017 Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize Winner Announced
The Global Justice Network has announced that the 2017 Winner of the Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize is Francisco García Gibson, postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Council…
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JHP’s Best Article Prize Awarded
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that Clare Carlisle, senior lecturer in philosophy and theology at King’s College London, is the winner…
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JHP’s Best Book in the History of Philosophy Prize
Each year, the Journal of the History of Philosophy awards a prize for the best book published in the history of philosophy the previous year.
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DesAutels Wins APA Quinn Prize
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton), is the winner of the 2017 Philip L. Quinn Prize.
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Williamson to Deliver the 2018-2019 Sanders Lecture
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that Timothy Williamson (New College, Oxford) will deliver the 2018-2019 Sanders Lecture.
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Philosopher Named Booker Prize Chair
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, has been named chair of the judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize…