Awards Grants Honors
CategoryAnn Garry Named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2020
Ann Garry, professor emerita of philosophy at California State University at Los Angeles, was named the Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2020 by the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (ESWIP). (more…)
Kathleen Stock Receives OBE; Philosophers Sign Letter Opposing the Honor (Updated)
Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, was one of 1,123 people awarded honors at the end of December by Queen Elizabeth in the UK government’s annual “New Year Honours.” (more…)
Sivertsen Wins Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy of Economics has awarded the 2018-2019 Mark Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics to Sveinung S. Sivertsen (University of Bergen). (more…)
2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize
The 2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) Book Prize, for books published in 2019, has been awarded to Sanford Shieh, professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University. (more…)
Philosophers Among NEH Grant Winners (updated)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the recipients of its latest round of grants, and seven eight philosophers are among those who have been funded. (more…)
Large ERC Consolidator Grants for Philosophy Projects (2020)
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its 2020 Consolidator Grants, and among them are a few philosophers. (more…)
Philosophy Projects Funded By Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, an independent foundation in Sweden that supports research in the humanities and social sciences, has announced the recipients of its 2020 grants. Among the funded projects are a few with philosophers as their principal investigators. (more…)
Inaugural Isaac Levi Prize Awarded to Andrew Bollhagen
Andrew Bollhagen, a fourth-year graduate student in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, is the winner of The Journal of Philosophy‘s inaugural Isaac Levi Prize. (more…)
Leisinger Wins 2020 Sanders Prize in Early Modern Philosophy
Matthew Leisinger, assistant professor of philosophy at York University, is the winner of the 2020 Sanders Prize in Early Modern Philosophy. (more…)
Philosophers Among New Class of AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAs) has announced its 2020 class of fellows. Most of the 489 new fellows are scientists, but three are philosophers. (more…)
Morton Wins AAC&U Book Award
The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has awarded its 2020 Frederic W. Ness Book Award to Jennifer Morton, associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for her Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press). (more…)
Philosophers Win 2020 Leverhulme Prizes
Three philosophers have been named winners of the 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. (more…)
Philosopher Wins £1m Grant to Study Human and Animal Rationality
Giacomo Melis, a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at the University of Stirling, has won funding of just over £1 million (approximately $1.29 million) for his project, Agency, Rationality, and Epistemic Defeat. (more…)
Fitelson Wins Wolfram Innovator Award
Branden Fitelson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, is one of the winners of the 2020 Wolfram Innovator Award. (more…)
SILFS Prize for Women in Logic and Philosophy of Science Awarded
The Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze / Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) has announced the recipients of its 2020 Prize for Women in Logic and the Philosophy of Science. (more…)
Philosophical Work Supported by Berggruen Fellowship Program
The Berggruen Institute has a fellowship program to support academics and others across a range of disciplines, and among its most recent class of fellows are some philosophy professors and others working on philosophical subjects. (more…)
Zena Hitz Wins 2020 Hiett Prize
Philosopher Zena Hitz, tutor at St. John’s College, is the winner of the 2020 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. (more…)
The Philosopher’s Annual – 2019 Edition
The Philosopher’s Annual aims to identify “the ten best articles published in philosophy each year.” It’s an aim that’s “as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill,” say its editors, but that has not stopped them from producing 39 volumes so far. The most recent one, for articles published in 2019, has just been compiled. (more…)
ACLS Fellowships & Philosophers
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced the winners of some of its fellowships and grants, and there are some philosophers among them. But not many. (more…)
Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Mid- and Early-Career Prizes
The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (APT) has announced the winners of its mid-career and early-career prizes. (more…)
Philosophers Win Large Grants from the ERC (updated)
A few philosophers have received large “Starting Grants” from the European Research Council (ERC) in its latest round of funding. (more…)
Large Grant Funds Boundary-Pushing Study of Moral Judgment
Santiago Amaya, professor of philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), has been awarded a $250,000 grant to support his project, “Off the Rails: Moral Psychology Beyond Traditional Borders.” (more…)
$4.4 Million Grant for Philosophical Exploration of Honesty
Christian B. Miller, the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, and a team of researchers, have been awarded a $4.4 million grant for his “Honesty Project.” (more…)
Philosophers Win Artificial Intelligence Award
The Tetrad Automated Causal Discovery Platform, a software and text project developed by Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Richard Scheines and Joe Ramsey of Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy, earned the “Leader” Award at the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference this past July. (more…)
Philosophers Among Recent NEH Grant Winners (updated)
Several philosophy professors are among the newly announced winners of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). (more…)
$1.45 Million Grant Won for Project on Philosophy of Science and Theology
Meghan Page, assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland has won a grant of $1,455,601 to support her project, “Building Foundations in Science-Engaged Theology: Insights from Philosophy of Science”. (more…)
Philosophers Elected to the British Academy
Several philosophy professors are among the 2020 class of fellows of the British Academy. (more…)
Philosophers on Prospect’s 2020 Top 50 Thinkers List
Several scholars who work on philosophy have made it onto Prospect‘s list of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers” this year. (more…)