Category: Awards Grants Honors
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Four Early Career Philosophers in Australia Awarded over AU$1.3 Million
Four philosophers are among this year’s winners of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) issued by the Australian Research Council (ARC). They are:
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Audi Wins APA’s 2016 Quinn Prize
Robert Audi, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2016…
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26 New Blogging Awards and 2 Article Awards
Ethics blog PEA Soup, in cooperation with the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depauw University, has announced that it will be offering 26…
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Conant Wins Humboldt Professorship
Philosopher James Conant of the University of Chicago has been named as one of three winners of this year’s prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorships.
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Charles Taylor Wins Million Dollar Berggruen Prize
Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University, is the winner of the inaugural Berggruen Prize.
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APA Awards Philosophy of Law Prize
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has awarded the 2017 Berger Memorial Prize to Patrick Tomlin (University of Reading). The Berger Prize is awarded every…
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Philosophers among the 2016 Class of Royal Society of Canada Fellows
The Royal Society of Canada has announced its newly elected fellows. “They have been elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and…
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APA Awards 2017 Kavka/UCI Prize
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that the winner its 2017 Kavka/UCI Prize is Johann Frick (Princeton) for his paper, “Contractualism and Social Risk”…
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Winners of the 2016 APA Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2016 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest, sponsored by its Committee on Public Philosophy. The…
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Essay Prize in Latin American Thought Awarded
The American Philosophical Association (APA has awarded its 2016 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought to Dr. L. Sebastian Purcell (SUNY Cortland) for his “Neltilitzli and the…
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Philosophers Among Recipients of 2016 NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the winners of several of its grants programs, totaling $79 million. 300 projects received support,…
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Recent Philosophy Prizes
Award news from the Lauener Foundation for Analytic Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association and Marc Sanders Foundation:
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New £30,000 Prize for Philosophers, Writers, & Architects
The new Judd-Hume Prize, named for artist Donald Judd and philosopher David Hume, includes a £30,000 prize and a two-month fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.…
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Australasian Association of Philosophy Awards
The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) has announced the winners of several of its 2016 awards. The list of prizes and winners is below.…
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Brian Epstein Wins the APA’s Gittler Award
Brian Epstein, associate professor of philosophy at Tufts University, has been awarded the 2016 Joseph B. Gittler Award by the American Philosophical Association (APA).
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Your Experience With Grants
On the comment thread to the recent “Money for Philosophers” post, Chris Surprenant (University of New Orleans) wrote: This is a nice resource, but it…
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Competition: Philosophy Through Short Story
To encourage philosophical engagement with the public, the American Philosophical Association (APA) is funding a “Philosophy Through Fiction” short story competition.
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Lodi Nauta Wins 2.5 Million Euro Spinoza Prize
L.W. (Lodi) Nauta, professor of philosophy and dean at the University of Groningen, is one of the 2016 winners of the Spinoza Prize, “the highest…
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Martha Nussbaum Wins Kyoto Prize
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) is this year’s winner of the Kyoto Prize. The prize is offered by the Inamori Foundation, an organization created by…
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Philosophy Now Magazine Wins Russell Award
The Bertrand Russell Society issues an annual award in recognition of individuals or institutions that follow “in the Russellian tradition of encouraging philosophical inquiry in a…