Prizes and Awards

PACIFIC DIVISION JEAN HAMPTON PRIZE

Summary

The Jean Hampton Prize is awarded to a philosopher at a junior career stage whose paper is accepted for the Pacific Division Meeting. The paper must be in some area of philosophy in which Professor Jean Hampton worked, including social and political philosophy, foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of law, rational choice theory, feminist theory, Hobbes to Hume, Kant, realism, and pragmatism. Specifically excluded are: Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Ancient metaphysics.

Process: Paper selected from those submitted to the Pacific Division Program Committee, by a subcommittee including three members of the Pacific Division Program Committee and two members of the University of Arizona Philosophy Department.

Frequency: Every 2 years, in odd years

Award Amount: $500

Last Award: 2007

Next Award: 2009

The fifth Jean Hampton Prize will be awarded to a paper accepted for the 2009 Pacific Division meeting.

Background

This $500 prize is awarded biennially (in odd years) for a paper in some area of philosophy in which Professor Hampton worked. Award of the prize is intended to acknowledge and reward the achievement of a philosopher at a junior career stage (graduate students, those in non-tenure-track jobs and those in the pre-tenure years). The prize committee encourages self-nominations, and individuals who believe themselves eligible for the Jean Hampton Prize should include a letter requesting consideration when they submit their papers to the Pacific Division Program. However, all papers submitted for the program in the areas of philosophy in which Professor Hampton worked will automatically be eligible for consideration. All rules and deadlines for submitting papers to the Program Committee apply to the Jean Hampton Prize Competition. Authors of papers will not be identified during the phases of the process that involve assessment of the submitted papers.

Previous awardees

2007 Eric Roark "Is Michael Otsuka's Conception of Robust Self-Ownership Too Robust for a Left-Libertarian"

2005 Sharon A. Street "A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value"

2003 Daniel C. Russell "Locke on Land and Labor"

2000 Ralph Wedgewood "Another Answer to the Knave"

1998 Kate Abramson "Hume on Cultural Conflicts"