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TagCampbell Wins JHP’s Article Prize
The Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) has awarded its 2024 Article Prize to Douglas R. Campbell (Alma College). (more…)
Carlisle Wins PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
PEN America has selected The Marriage Question: George Elliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle, professor of philosophy at King’s College London, as the winner of its 2024 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. (more…)
Lavender Wins Sanders Early Modern Prize
The Marc Sanders Foundation has awarded its Prize in the History of Early Modern Philosophy to Jordan Lavender (Purdue; soon to be Texas A&M). (more…)
Woodward wins Hempel Award
James Woodward, emeritus professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, is the winner of the Philosophy of Science Association’s 2024 Hempel Award. (more…)
Chirimuuta Wins Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) has been named the winner of the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. (more…)
Gruen is the 2024 SWIP Distinguished Philosopher of the Year
Lori Gruen, professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, has been named the 2024 Distinguished Philosopher of the Year by the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). (more…)
Berggruen Institute Announces Winners of Its New $25,000 Essay Prize
The Berggruen Institute, a think tank oriented around cross-cultural and philosophical approaches to big questions about how to “best support flourishing relations between humans, technology, and the planet” and known for its $1 million “Prize for Philosophy and Culture,” has announced the inaugural winners of its new essay prize. (more…)
Recanati Wins 2024 Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize
François Recanati, professor of philosophy at the Collège de France, is the winner of the 2024 Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. (more…)
Philosopher Sara Green Wins Royal Danish Academy’s Silver Medal
Sara Green, a philosopher of science at the University of Copenhagen, is the recipient of this year’s Silver Medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. (more…)
Manne’s “Unshrinking” Longlisted for National Book Award (Update: Now Shortlisted)
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Cornell) has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. (UPDATE (10/1/24): it has now made the shortlist.)
Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize Longlist
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the finalists for its 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. (more…)
Thoma Wins 2024 Rockwell Prize
Johanna Thoma, professor of ethics at the University of Bayreuth, is the winner of the 2024 Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize for Best Article on Ethics, Leadership and Public Policy. (more…)
Hoefer Wins 2024 Lakatos Award
Carl Hoefer, Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Scientific Director of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) is the winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award. (more…)
Appiah Wins Kluge Prize
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is the winner of the 2024 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. (more…)
Philosophers Among the British Academy’s 2024 Fellows
The British Academy has announced the selection of 86 new fellows, and several philosophers are among them. (more…)
Lackey Wins 2024 NASSP Book Award
The North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) has given its 2024 award for best book to Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) for her Criminal Testimonial Injustice. (more…)
Two Philosophers Named “New Generation Thinkers” by BBC
The BBC and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have selected “ten of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers” as this year’s “New Generation Thinkers,” and two of them are philosophers. (more…)
One Philosophy Student Among This Year’s Newcombe Fellows
Italo Alves, a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, is the sole philosophy student among the 2024 class of Newcombe Fellows. (more…)
Lee Wins Sanders Metaphysics Prize
Andrew Y. Lee, assistant professor at the University of Toronto, is the winner of the 2024 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics. (more…)
Bergès Wins Global Professorship
Sandrine Bèrges, professor of philosophy at Bilkent University, has been awarded one of eight “Global Professorships” by the British Academy. (more…)
Young Epistemologist Prize Awarded to Co-Authors Kearl & Willard-Kyle
Timothy Kearl and Christopher Willard-Kyle, both postdoctoral researchers at the Cogito: Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, are the winners of the 2023 Young Epistemologist Prize. (more…)
Two Winners of the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize” of philosophy, was jointly awarded this year to Hans Kamp, professor of formal logics and philosophy of language at the University of Stuttgart, and Irene Heim, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)
DiFrisco Wins Popper Prize
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has awarded its 2023 Popper Prize to James DiFrisco (Francis Crick Institute). (more…)
Berggruen Launches New Philosophy Essay Competition
The Berggruen Institute, known for, among other things, its $1 million annual “philosophy and culture” prize, has launched a new philosophy essay competition. (more…)
Boehm Wins Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
The 2024 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding has been awarded to philosopher Omri Boehm (The New School) for his book Radical Universalism. (more…)
Maley Wins Herbert A. Simon Award
The executive board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) has selected Corey J. Maley, associate professor of philosophy at Purdue University, as the winner of its 2024 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. (more…)
Lenhard Wins 2024 Covey Award
Johannes Lenhard (Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Covey Award by the board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). (more…)
New Teaching Philosophy with Technology Prize
Oxford University Press and the American Philosophical Association (APA) have teamed up to launch the new “Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize.” (more…)