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Vallor Wins Covey Award

Shannon Vallor, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, holder of the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the university’s Edinburgh Futures Institute, and director of its Centre for Technomoral Futures, has been named the winner of the 2022 Covey Award. (more…)

Kaplan Wins 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

David Kaplan, the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the winner of the 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. (more…)

How to Fix the Referee Crisis in Professional Philosophy (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) provides a two-step solution to the referee crisis in philosophy. (more…)

APA Issues Several Prizes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several of its prizes. (more…)

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Prizes

The Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT) has announced the winners of its Early Career and Mid-Career Prizes. (more…)

APA Announces Prizes and Honors

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several prizes and honors. (more…)

Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows

Four philosophers have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). (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…)

APA Announces Winners of Multiple Prizes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several of its prizes. (more…)

Winners of the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book and Essay Prizes

The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) last week announced the winners of its 2019 book and essay prizes.
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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 new blogging awards, plus two awards for papers blogged about there. (more…)

Philosophy in Prison Program at U.Missouri Kansas-City Wins Prize from APA and PDC

The Philosophy in Prison Program of the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) has won 2016 Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The prize is awarded jointly by the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC). The prize award is campus-wide electronic access to a bund..

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. But first, notice that the AAP issues an award to non-philosophers: its Media Professionals’ Award. (more…)

Winners of the APA’s Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize. The prize was created in 2013 and is funded by Routledge, which is part of the Taylor & Francis publishing group. The prize is awarded for the two best published articles in philosophy written by adjunct professors. The 2016 winners are: (more…)..

2015 Sanders Prize Winners

The Marc Sanders Foundation, which “aims to stimulate renewed appreciation for traditional philosophy by encouraging, identifying and rewarding excellent research in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion” has announced the winners of its 2015 prizes. They are:

Epistemology: Sophie Horowitz (Ric..

Litland (Texas) Wins Sanders Prize in Metaphysics

Jon Litland (University of Texas, Austin) has won the 2015 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics for his paper, “Grounding Ground.” The prize is given to the winner of an annual essay competition open to scholars who are within fifteen years of having received their Ph.D., or students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program (independent scholars may also be eligible..

Brandom Wins Prize

Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh) has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis by the Humboldt Foundation. The Foundation awards the prize each year to three or four people working in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. The prize amount is €250 000 (about $320 000). (via Anil Gupta)

APA Prizes Announced

The American Philosophical Association has announced the winners of a few of its prizes:

2014 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought was won by Philip Mack (Marquette) for his essay, “Should a Concept of Truth be attributed to Nahuatl Thought? Preserving ‘the Colonial Difference’ between Concepts of the West and Nahua Philosophy”. It will be published in the APA’s ..

Dowell (Syracuse) Wins Sanders Prize in Metaethics

Janice Dowell, associate professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, has won the 2014 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics for her essay, “Millikan, Methaethics, and Moral Twin Earth”. The award includes $10,000 and publication of the article in Oxford Studies in Metaethics. The Marc Sanders Foundation, which awarded the prize, takes as its mission “to stimulate ren..

William Harper Wins Prize from American Philosophical Society

William Harper, a philosopher at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University (London, Ontario), and one of the few philosophers (I’m assuming) to have an asteroid named after him, is the recipient of the 2014 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science. The philosophy of science prize, which includes a $10,000 honorarium, is awarded once every three y..