NEWARK, Del. — Jun. 18, 2026 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the following seven prizes for the first half of 2026. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2026 APA Prizes: Spring Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2027 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University)
• Central: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

2026–2027 Edinburgh Fellowship: Cressida Heyes (University of Alberta)

2026 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize: William Penn (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and Eli Shupe (The University of Texas at Arlington)

• Honorable Mention: Patrick Anderson (Central State University)
• Honorable Mention: Yuna Won (Hunter College, CUNY)

2027 Nicholas Rescher Prize Lecture: Kit Fine (New York University)

2027 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University)

2027 Sanders Lecture: Gideon Rosen (Princeton University)

2027 Sosa Prize Lecture: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 19, 2025 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 22 prizes for the second half of 2025. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2025 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2025 AI2050 Prizes:

• Early Career Researcher: Raphaël Millière (University of Oxford), “Normative Conflicts and Shallow AI Alignment,” Philosophical Studies (2025)
• Established Researcher: Mathias Risse (Harvard University), “Moral Status and Political Membership: Toward a Political Theory for Life 3.0,” Political Theory of the Digital Age (2023)

2025 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Philosophy Slam (University of Louisville)

2025 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Dana S. Scott (Carnegie Mellon University)

2026 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute)

2025 Book Prize: Daniel Smyth (Wesleyan University), Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Alexander Stehn (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

2026 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize: Nick Riggle (University of San Diego), “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing”

• Honorable Mention: James Young (University of Victoria), “The Myth of the Aesthetic”

2025 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Central: Jim Joyce (University of Michigan)
• Pacific: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

2025 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Juan Carlos Gonzalez (Colorado College), “Living Uneconomically: The Aesthetics of Antonio Caso”

2025 Joseph B. Gittler Award: John M. Doris (Cornell University), Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford University Press, 2022)

2026 William James Prize: Anton Dolmatov (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Equal Opportunity for Future Citizens”

2026 Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize: Samuel Dishaw (University of Louvain), “Justifiability and the Other’s Point of View”

2026 Milton K. Munitz Prize: Patrick Cronin (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”

2025 Alvin Plantinga Prize: Brian Ballard (Loyola Marymount University), “Faith Because of Evil”

• Honorable Mention: Amber Griffioen (Independent Scholar), “Just Pretend? Religious Make-Believe as Theological Virtue”

2025 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:

• Graham Parsons (Vassar College, Bard Prison Initiative), “There’s a Dangerous Misconception about the Military’s Obligations to the President,” New York Times (September 29, 2024)
• Rachel Robison-Greene (Utah State University), “The Temptations of Nostalgia,” 3 Quarks Daily (October 16, 2024)
• Joe Slater (University of Glasgow), James Humphries (University of Glasgow), and Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow), “ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It's Bullshitting!” Scientific American (July 17, 2024)
• Mary Townsend (St. John’s University), “What I Am Looking for in Empty Churches,” New York Times (December 28, 2024)

2025 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)

2025 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize:

• Mahmoud Jalloh (California Institute of Technology), “Metaphysics and Convention in Dimensional Analysis, 1914–1917,” HOPOS (2024)
• Austen McDougal (New York University), “Amnesia and Punishment,” Ethics (2024)

2026 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:

• Eno Agolli (Rutgers University and Saul Kripke Center), “On Hats: A Counterpart Theory for the Third Reading”
• Hans Shenk (Temple University), “Revisiting Hornsby and Stanley: In Defense of Productive Practical Knowledge”
• Margot Witte (University of Michigan), “You Should Be Tortured: The Relational Value of Internal Conflict”

2026 Sanders Lecture: Catherine Z. Elgin (Harvard University), “Foregrounding the Background”

2025 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize: Linda Eggert (University of Oxford), “The Ethics of Defensive Harming and the Laws of War in the Shadow of Autonomous Weapons”

2026 Stephen J. White Prize: Pascal Brixel (Northwestern University), “Freedom First: On Coercion and Coercive Offers” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2025)

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NEWARK, Del. — Jul. 3, 2025 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Milton K. Munitz Prize in Metaphysics, Ontology, and Cosmology and the Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize in Value Theory, Social Philosophy, and Civic Virtue. The Munitz Prizes are established with the APA by the Milton K. Munitz Society in honor of Milton K. Munitz and Lenore Bloom Munitz, and will be awarded annually to scholars at any career stage who have their paper accepted for inclusion in the APA Eastern Division meeting program through the normal anonymous review process.

The winners of the Munitz Prizes will each receive $1,000. The prizes will be awarded at the Eastern Division meeting in which the winning papers are accepted.

For more information on these prizes, including details on criteria and eligibility, visit the Munitz Prizes page. 

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — May 15, 2025 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the following seven prizes for the first half of 2025. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2025 APA Prizes: Spring Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2026 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Central: James Joyce (University of Michigan)

2025–2026 Edinburgh Fellowship: Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College)

2025 Jean Hampton Prize: Clara Lingle (New York University), “What’s the Moral Problem with Servility?”

2025 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia) and Samantha Matherne (Harvard University)

2024 Anthony J. Lisska Prize: Dustin Locke (Claremont McKenna College)

2025 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize: Alex Richardson (The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University)

• Honorable Mention: Isaac Record (Michigan State University)

2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)

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NEWARK, Del. — Apr. 24, 2025 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Stephen J. White Prize. This prize is established in honor of the late Dr. Stephen J. White, who was Associate Professor at Northwestern University. The White Prize is awarded biennially to the best published paper by a junior philosopher that engages directly with Professor White’s work or with themes that were central to his thinking. These include but are not limited to the following:

• Issues of moral responsibility, in particular what we should take responsibility for and to what extent we are especially responsible for our own lives;
• Issues of practical reasoning, in particular whether and how predictions about how we or others are likely to act should figure in our thinking about what to do; 
• Issues about shared reasoning and mutual answerability;
• The relation between a group’s obligations (e.g., our collective obligation to address and mitigate climate change) and the individual obligations of the group’s members.

The prize winner will receive $1,000. If there are co-winners, they will split the prize amount equally. The prizes will be awarded at the APA divisional meetings.

The APA now invites submissions for the inaugural Stephen J. White Prize. The submission deadline is July 15, 2025.

For more information on these prizes, including details on criteria and eligibility, visit the Stephen J. White Prize page.

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 20, 2024 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2024. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2024 AI2050Prizes:

2024 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies (Claremont McKenna College)

2024 Article Prize: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation,” Inquiry (2023)

2025 Fred Berger Memorial Prize: Wendy Salkin (Stanford University), “Speaking for Others from the Bench,” Legal Theory 29, no. 2 (2023): 151–84

2024 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching:

2025 John Dewey Lectures:

2024 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Stefan Terrazas (The Pennsylvania State University), “Ginés de Sepúlveda: Christian Empire, Virtue, and the Argument of Natural Servitude Among Indigenous Americans”

2024 Joseph B. Gittler Award: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound), The Philosophy of Envy (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

2025 William James Prize: Caroline Wall (Boston University), “Emersonian Moral Perfection as a Method of Ethics”

2024 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:

2024 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)

2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize:

2025 Josiah Royce Lectureship: Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney)

2025 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:

2025 Sanders Lecture: Kit Fine (New York University)

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — May 16, 2024 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following nine prizes for the first half of 2024. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2024 APA Prizes: Spring Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2024 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2025 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)
• Central: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)

2024 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize: Gilbert Plumer (Law School Admission Council)

2024 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize: Kate Manne (Cornell University) and David Livingstone Smith (University of New England)

2023 Anthony J. Lisska Prize: Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College)

2024 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize: Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue University)

• Honorable Mention: Matthew Watts (University of Miami)

2024 Alvin Plantinga Prize: Manuel Vargas (University of California, San Diego)

2025 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Sharon Street (New York University)

2025 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — April 25, 2024 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the APA AI2050 Prizes, supported by Schmidt Sciences. The APA AI2050 Prizes are awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical scholarship (including interdisciplinary scholarship that engages philosophical issues) addressing any of the AI2050 Hard Problems. There are two prizes: one for an early-career researcher and one for an established researcher. Each prize winner will receive $10,000. If there are co-winners, they will split the prize amount equally. The prizes will be awarded at the APA divisional meetings.

The APA now invites submissions for the inaugural APA AI2050 Prizes. The submission deadline is June 23, 2024.

For more information on these prizes, including details on criteria and eligibility, visit the APA AI2050 Prizes page.

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Feb. 1, 2024 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it has reinstated all grant funding programs and will provide grants to 10 philosophy-related projects in the 2023–2024 fiscal year. For more information on these programs, visit the  funded projects page of our website. Congratulations to all grant recipients!

The board of officers originally committed up to $20,000 for 2023–2024 to support one or two programs aiming to increase the presence and participation of underrepresented groups in philosophy. Learn more. Out of eight applications seeking a total of $113,665 in support, the board ultimately chose to fund the following project:

Each fiscal year, the APA Eastern Division provides $25,000 for the APA’s Small Grant Program. This year’s grant application process was quite competitive, with 24 proposals requesting over $87,000 from our $25,000 grant fund. The following eight programs will receive funding:

Diversity and Inclusiveness Grants

Pluralizing Philosophical Languages and Cultures in the South Texas Borderlands ($20,000)

Our project promotes diversity and inclusiveness in philosophy by supporting what we view as our students’ right to access Philosophical Bilingualism, Biculturalism, and Biliteracy (PB3). Situated in the deep south Texas borderlands as the second-largest Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the continental United States, over 90% of our students are Hispanic or Latino/a/x and the majority are bilingual. Therefore, when we include our students in philosophy, that means including them as the bilingual and bicultural students they are and helping them develop philosophical biliteracy. To do this, our project will establish a learning community of seven Philosophically Bilingual, Bicultural, and Biliterate (PB3) faculty who will work together as a team to develop and regularly teach a rotation of ten Spanish (E) and Bilingual (X) PHIL courses, effectively pluralizing the philosophical languages and cultures of both our department and discipline as we seek to broadcast our efforts.

Small Grant Program

Dialectic ($1,800)

The Dialectic is a High School Philosophy Summer Program at Arizona State University, started in 2021. The Dialectic brings in High School Students (ages 14-18) from all over the Phoenix Valley to participate in a community of inquiry. Each year, the instructors for The Dialectic choose a theme related to what is relevant in the lives of these students to show them how philosophy can be both practical and relevant. The Dialectic aims to not only expose students to philosophy, but to expose them to what it is like to be in an academic environment with others who desire to be there. Toward this end, we want to expand the program with issues of equity in mind, bringing in more students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, including those groups that the Phoenix Metropolitan area is particularly well positioned to include - Latino/as and Urban Indigenous Peoples.

Does Philosophy Make Students Better Thinkers? ($2,725)

Does studying philosophy help students to become better thinkers? The proposed project will use data collected by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) to investigate this question, examining traits like reflectiveness, open-mindedness, and critical thinking. HERI has a database with records from thousands of students at schools across the United States. These include records from the start of students’ first years in college and at the end of their graduating years. Using these data, we will compare philosophy majors with non-philosophy majors, examining changes in intellectual traits over the course of the college years. Hence, this project will provide solid and relevant evidence for assessing a common claim about the value of our discipline. Such evidence would be invaluable for those seeking to advocate for philosophy in higher education and beyond.

Engaged Political Theory for Our Americas: Philosophizing the Black and Spanish Pacifics ($3,000)

This project builds on recent efforts by the philosophical community to engage long-ignored voices, to democratize philosophy, and to philosophize neglected aspects of democracy in the Americas. We propose by it to contribute to engaged political philosophy, which spotlights the ideas of scholars in the Global South and at Minority-Serving Institutions, engages the world’s many sources of ideas and institutes, responds to the calls of social movements for ideas that they can use, and partners with the disinherited to combat injustices. We are a coalition of political philosophers coming from the newly-formed Engaged Political Theory Working Group and the Latin American Seminar for Political Philosophy. In this project, we plan to host a conference, held in Mexico City, on the philosophical impacts of seeing our Americas as shaped by Black Americans’ ventures in the Pacific, and by appreciating the key role played by Spanish America in Pacific history.

Latinx Philosophy Conference ($2,400)

This proposal is for the 2023 Latinx Philosophers' Conference. The first conference was organized by Latin American philosophy graduate students Mariana Noé, Ignacio Ojea, and César Cabezas at Columbia University in 2016. Since then, the conference has been held at Rutgers, Marquette, MSU Denver, and Temple University. This is a yearly conference that brings together Latinx Philosophers from all around the United States. The conference provides a space for Latinx philosophers to share their philosophical work, earn valuable conference-related experience, network with their peers, and establish mentorship relationships. The 2023 conference will be held at John Jay College in April 2024. The keynote speakers are Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers) and Nelson Maldonado-Torres (U-Conn).

Mentor Observation Program (MOP) for Small Philosophy Departments ($4,000)

Faculty in small philosophy programs often lack access to effective feedback about teaching. Such feedback may come from faculty in other departments who are not familiar with prevailing practices for teaching philosophy, or from a very limited number of philosophy colleagues. We plan to offer faculty in small departments two semesters of support from mentors trained by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT). The mentor would remotely observe early-career faculty (tenure-track, visiting, lecturer, and adjunct or contingent) and provide structured feedback. Mentees would develop pedagogical tools to improve their teaching and have the opportunity to discuss their teaching with colleagues outside of their institution.

Philosophy of Mind DRL Blueprint Project ($2,625)

The Diversity Reading List is an expanding online resource of texts written by under-represented authors. Among its projects is the Reading Group Blueprint which asks volunteers to create ready-made reading groups that focus on topics that are typically under-taught in philosophy curricula (e.g., Class, Colonialism, Race and Gender (CCRG), or non-Western philosophy). This allows students anywhere to take matters into their own hands and learn about these topics by following one of these blueprints, and organizing and leading their own reading group. Our proposal is to create three Blueprint on topics in philosophy of mind relating to CCRG. More specifically, we aim at creating blueprints on Chinese Philosophy of Mind, on Feminist Philosophy of Mind, and an all-female blueprint on Embodied Cognitive Science.

Re-Indexing the Diversity Reading List in Philosophy ($2,000)

The Diversity Reading List in Philosophy (DRL) is seeking a small grant from the APA to implement a new indexing system for its website. Its current one is based on PhilPapers’s system. But, given lingering equality, diversity, and inclusivity issues within that system, we have developed a new system which improves in all of those regards and is also better catered to researchers and educators alike who are seeking to diversify their work and teaching. As proof of concept, we outlined this system in our paper, ‘Indexing Philosophy in a Fair and Inclusive Key,’ which was published by the Journal of the American Philosophical Association in April 2023. But, with the help of the APA, we would now like to take the next step: implementing it.

Social Philosophy Workshop ($1,700)

The Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars who examine contemporary social and political issues in interdisciplinary fashion. It is held annually at different locations, bringing together participants from the local area with a core group of organizers. Papers are pre-read, with workshop time devoted to commentators introducing and responding to each paper, followed by general discussion. The inaugural Workshop on the theme of “Ontologies of Oppression, Solidarity, and Care” was held in 2022 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the second workshop (“Identity, Alienation, Emancipation”) was held at Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. The 2024 Workshop will be held at Bard College and the 2025 Workshop will be held at Vassar College. The combination of inviting new, local participants to each workshop alongside the benefits of building on conversations from previous workshops has proved fruitful in fostering connections and exchanging ideas.

UA Little Rock Ethics and Philosophy Summer Academy ($5,000)

The UA Little Rock Ethics and Philosophy Summer Academy (EPSA) will bring up to 25 high school students to the UA Little Rock campus for five days of philosophical community, at no cost to the students. This educational camp aims to engage Arkansas High School students in sustained, collaborative philosophical study. Students will be introduced to a variety of basic philosophical and ethical concepts and develop skills in critical thinking, construction and analysis of arguments, and engagement with philosophical issues in contemporary society. The curriculum will include philosophy seminars and an Ethics Bowl workshop led by experienced UA Little Rock philosophy faculty and experienced High School Ethics Bowl coaches from Central High School in Little Rock. This is a new initiative, but it builds off of our eleven years of organizing the Arkansas High School Ethics Bowl.

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 21, 2023 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2023. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2023 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2023 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) (Affiliated with the University of Washington)

2023 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University)

2023 Book Prize: Una Stojnić (Princeton University), Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence (Oxford University Press, 2021)

• Honorable Mention: Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland, College Park), Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Honorable Mention: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Georgetown University), Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2021)

2024 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
• Central: Stephen Darwall (Yale University)
• Pacific: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)

2023 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Emmanuel Carrillo (University of Memphis), “Rethinking Extractivist Epistemologies: Mexican philosophy and philosophy ‘al otro lado’”

2023 Joseph B. Gittler Award: David Livingstone Smith (University of New England)

2024 William James Prize: Laura Soter (Duke University), “Rethinking Doxastic (In)Voluntarism”

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — May 18, 2023 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following ten prizes for the first half of 2023. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2023 APA Prizes: Spring Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2022 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Outreach Invitational High School Ethics Bowl (Center for Public Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz)

2023 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship: Elad Uzan (University of Oxford)

2024 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize: Ryan Doran (University of Barcelona/University of Cambridge)

• Honorable Mention: John Dyck (Auburn University)

2024 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
• Central: Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

2022 Joseph B. Gittler Award: Cambria, serif; color: black;">: Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning)

2022 Jean Hampton Prize: Pascal Brixel (Clemson University/Northwestern University)

2024 de Gruyter Kant Lecture: Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

2023 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize: Kristie Dotson (University of Michigan) and Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)

2024 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Mark Johnston (Princeton University)

2022 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize: W. Clark Wolf (Marquette University)

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NEWARK, Del. — April 19, 2023 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Kristie Dotson, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at University of Michigan, and Dr. Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, have won the 2023 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Awarded annually by ΦBK in conjunction with the APA, this prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of philosophy. Each winner will be awarded an honorarium of $25,000.

The Lebowitz Prize was established in 2012 by a generous bequest from Eve Lewellis Lebowitz in honor of her late husband, Martin R. Lebowitz, a distinguished philosophical critic. Lebowitz Prize winners must be two philosophers who hold contrasting views on a chosen topic of current interest in philosophy. They present their views and engage in a dialogue at an annual Lebowitz symposium, held during an APA divisional meeting.

Kristie Dotson is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Philosophy and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She specializes in epistemology, metaphilosophy, and Black feminist philosophy. Dr. Dotson has published (and co-published) numerous journal articles on epistemic oppression, diversity in philosophy, and various topics in Black feminist theory. She is currently working on a monograph aimed at what she calls Black girl world building, entitled Love Politic.

Susanna Siegel received her PhD from Cornell University. She currently works on topics in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. She is author of The Contents of Visual Experience (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Rationality of Perception (Oxford University Press, 2017), and numerous articles about perception, its many roles in the mind, and its relationships to probability, culture, politics, and journalism. In addition to publishing in many different academic venues designed for specialists, she has written pieces aimed at wider audiences on politics, death, schadenfreude, mob violence, vigilantism, and principles for journalism, in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Philosopher magazine, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Washington University Review of Philosophy. You can hear her discuss the interconnections between these topics on the 5 Questions podcast.

Professors Dotson and Siegel’s topic for the 2023 Lebowitz Prize is “Norms of Attention.” They will present their work in February 2024 at the APA Central Division meeting in New Orleans, LA. 

Nominations/applications for the 2024 Lebowitz Prize will open in early fall 2023; the deadline is November 30, 2023. Please click here for more information.

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Founded on Dec. 5, 1776, The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society. It has chapters at 290 colleges and universities in the United States, almost 50 alumni associations, and more than half a million members worldwide. Noteworthy members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 42 U.S. Supreme Court Justices and more than 150 Nobel Laureates. The mission of The Phi Beta Kappa Society is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence. For more information, visit www.pbk.org.

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NEWARK, Del. — Jan. 26, 2023 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last fall, the APA board of officers elected Prof. R. Lanier Anderson the association’s next board chair. Anderson, who will succeed Prof. Dominic McIver Lopes of the University of British Columbia, will begin his three-year term on July 1, 2023.

R. Lanier Anderson is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stanford University. He was member-at-large of the APA board of officers from 2018 to 2021; he has also served on the APA finance committee, the Pacific Division nominating committee, and the Pacific Division program committee. Anderson was executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society (NANS) from 2015 to 2021, and chair of the NANS program committee from 2004 to 2021; a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Fulbright Program screening committees; and Senior Association Dean for the Humanities and Arts at Stanford University. He is a member of the American Society of Aesthetics and the North American Kant Society, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Nietzsche-Studien, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Anderson says, “I am honored by this opportunity to serve the APA, an organization which has done so much for my own career through its work to support philosophers and advance the place of philosophy in the culture. I deeply appreciate the leadership of Dom Lopes, Amy Ferrer, and the board in guiding our association through the pandemic, and I will do my best to live up to their example. The challenges of the coming years will be significant, and we can meet them only together, devoting the APA’s resources to address the needs of all philosophers, across the whole diverse range of our discipline today.”

Dominic McIver Lopes, chair of the board of officers, says, “The APA is surely going to benefit from Lanier Anderson’s dedication to scholarship and teaching, his deep administrative experience at Stanford, and his wise and gracious leadership style. Please join me in thanking him—and supporting his efforts on our behalf.”

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 8, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it will provide grants to 10 philosophy-related projects in the 2022–2023 fiscal year. For more information on these programs, visit the funded projects page of our website. Congratulations to all grant recipients!

The board of officers originally committed up to $20,000 for 2022–2023 to support one or two programs aiming to increase the presence and participation of underrepresented groups in philosophy. Learn more. Out of eight applications seeking a total of $139,041 in support, the board ultimately chose to fund the following two projects at $10,000 each.

Each fiscal year, the APA Eastern Division provides $25,000 for the APA’s Small Grant Program . This year’s grant application process was quite competitive, with 15 proposals requesting a total of $60,303 from our $25,000 grant fund. The following eight programs will receive funding:

According to the Public Religion Research Institute, Arkansans are the least supportive of measures to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination compared to all states (3/26/19). Following the central tenet that queer theory include praxis to challenge the logic of domination, the University of Central Arkansas will support the community by creating The Lavender Library: Institutionalizing Access to Queer Theory, Courses and Speakers at a Regional Comprehensive University in the South. This initiative meets needs of LGBTQ+ students in a safe, life-affirming space. Focus areas include identity development; queer theory; transgender representation; gender expression; gender identity; sexuality; intersex experiences; and intersectionality. Scholarly, autobiographical, and reference/resource materials focus on aspects of LGBTQ+ life including art; drama; health and medicine; history; legal issues; literature; music; politics; psychology; philosophy; religion; theory; and work/career issues.

The aim of the Savage Education project is to identify and understand colonial, western pedagogical practices that contribute to the absence of Native American students (and other students of color) in philosophy. By researching and discussing the curriculum and pedagogical practices of Native American boarding schools, we hope to find better practices that encourage under-represented students to engage with philosophy courses. It will also provide early-career Native American philosophers with an opportunity to collaborate and develop research projects pertaining to Native American philosophy of education.

This proposal is for the 2023 Latinx Philosophers' Conference. The first conference was organized by Latin American philosophy graduate students Mariana Noé, Ignacio Ojea, and César Cabezas at Columbia University in 2016. Since then, the conference has been held at Rutgers, Marquette, MSU Denver, and Temple University. This is a yearly conference that brings together Latinx philosophers from all around the United States. The conference provides a space for Latinx philosophers to share their philosophical work, earn valuable conference-related experience, network with their peers, and establish mentorship relationships. The 2023 conference will be held at Temple University in April 2023. The keynote speakers are Mariana Ortega (Penn State) and Manuel Vargas (UC San Diego).

For the 2022–2023 academic year, we aim to organize a graduate-level conference and provide an opportunity for interaction, mentoring, and community-building for graduate students working in the areas of decolonial feminism(s). We plan to build a network that recognizes the work of scholars working in the fields of decolonial thought and feminist philosophy. The term “decolonial thought” is used as an umbrella term that accommodates postcolonial feminisms, non-western feminism, categories, and studies that question the analytical term of “woman” and indigenous feminisms. Without the intervention of such feminisms, feminist philosophy and philosophy as a discipline lacks the much-needed intervention and rethinking necessary for revaluation of both disciplines. This initiative will diversify and extend the conversations happening in philosophical circles and bring a much necessary practice of dialogue, solidarity, and exchange amongst the scholarship produced from the global south.

The aim of the project is to create a website that will serve as a source directory of archives of feminist philosophers as well as journals and organizations of feminist philosophy. This annotated directory will enable scholars researching a wide range of topics and individuals in feminist philosophy to locate archived materials and enable enriched understanding of the evolution and connections among various strands of feminist thought. Funding will support not only creating the website, but also publicizing it on social media and communicating individually with many philosophers, librarians, and archivists. In this project, “feminist philosophers” includes feminist theorists in related disciplines.

The ethi{CS} project—a project run by educators at Phillips Academy, Andover, and incubated by the Tang Institute—focuses on a pedagogical method for introducing ethics into computer science classrooms and has, since 2019, built a community of computer science (CS) and technology educators and philosophers.

In the 2022–2023 school year, the ethi{CS} project will partner with Open Design Studio at Duke University to launch two projects: (1) a professional development program designed for CS and technology educators, and (2) begin to design and build a digital, open-access version of the same. We are in conversation with the Massachusetts Department of Education (DESE) to develop this PD to meet state standards for CS education (and to become approved as a Professional Development provider), and thus can be directly useful to public school educators in the state (and others with similar standards).

The Iowa Lyceum is a free academic summer camp that introduces philosophy to high school students. It is organized and run by the graduate students at the University of Iowa, and hosts its own professors and alumni for expert-led presentations throughout the week. Not only do the graduate students organize the Lyceum, but they also facilitate open-ended and thought-provoking philosophical discussions and activities with the students. The Iowa Lyceum is entering its tenth year and is shifting its priority to cater to its growing base of international students and focusing on bringing minorities to philosophy. The next Iowa Lyceum will be held entirely over Zoom and will be part of a collaboration with both the University of Iowa’s MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) chapter and International Universities, a platform for high school students in South America, which helps students prepare their academic profiles for their university applications in the United States.

Although many departments across the country have found ways to increase students' engagement with philosophy, philosophers have yet to discover a sustainable, reproducible means for increasing engagement with philosophy at small, career-oriented colleges and universities. In order to bridge this gap, this project plans to expand the Learning Assistant program for philosophy at the University of Mary, a program that trains upper-level undergraduate majors to lead weekly dialogues for introductory philosophy courses. Building on our experience with Learning Assistant programs at the University of Mary, this project will increase the number of Learning Assistants in philosophy, enrich their training through a tailored course, provide them with opportunities to lead philosophy disputations at a local high school, and publish organizational and pedagogical documents that can be used by other career-oriented institutions to start similar programs on a minimal budget.

Each summer, the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy runs an innovative pedagogy lab with three instructors, three graduate student tutors, and twenty ambitious undergraduates for three concurrent, two-week courses in philosophy. The program gives instructors, whose courses are chosen for their pedagogical creativity, the opportunity to experiment with new pedagogies for two weeks and culminates, for instructors and graduate student tutors, in a conference on pedagogy. We propose to broaden the HCSPiP’s pedagogical impact by bringing in a Pedagogy Resident. The Resident would oversee special pedagogical programming throughout the program as well as pedagogical outreach via collaborations for publishing and conference presentations. The Pedagogy Resident will improve the value of the HCSPiP for instructors and tutors, helping them to reflect on their pedagogical experiments and organizing discussions about pedagogy, before, throughout, and after the program.

The Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI), based at Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute, fosters collaboration and research on the ethical dimensions of policing and public safety, with an emphasis on informing policy. Many ongoing public debates over policing are, at their heart, simultaneously moral questions and question about social justice. Philosophers and ethicists have a valuable role to play in advancing these debates and our understanding of the responsibilities of police in a democratic society, what rules should govern them, and how best to promote public safety in a manner consistent with justice and fairness. 3PI promotes these goals through building an international network of philosophers and ethicists with expertise in policing, highlighting philosophical research on policing, organizing forums and competitions to encourage such research, and connecting scholars with policymakers, police practitioners, and community leaders.

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 8, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 14 prizes for the second half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2022 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!

2022 Article Prize: Sarah Moss (University of Michigan), “Pragmatic Encroachment and Legal Proof” (Philosophical Issues, 2021)

2022 K. Jon Barwise Prize: John Etchemendy (Stanford University)

2023 Fred Berger Memorial Prize: John Oberdiek (Rutgers University School of Law), “The Wrong in Negligence” (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021)

2023 de Gruyter Kant Lecture: Hannah Ginsborg (UC Berkeley)

2023 John Dewey Lectures:

2022 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Paula Landerreche Cardillo (DePaul University), “The Theater of Knowledge at the Zero-Point as a Colonial Enterprise: Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Engagement with Kant”

2023 William James Prize: Hannah Widmaier (UCLA), “Civic Obligations Among Victims of Injustice: On Shelby's Idea of Reciprocity”

2022 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:

2022 Alvin Plantinga Prize: David Vander Laan (Westmont College), “Satisfaction in the End without End” (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, 2022)

2022 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Center)

2023 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)

2023 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:

2023 Sanders Lecture: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

2022 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Alida Liberman (Southern Methodist University)

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — June 7, 2022 — American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following eight prizes for the first half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2022 APA Prizes: Spring Edition page. Congratulations to all!

• 2023 John Dewey Lectures:
  
  
  • Eastern: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
    
  • Central: Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University)

• 2022–2023 Edinburgh Fellowship: Anthony Neal (Mississippi State University)
  

• 2022 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize: Robert Bass (Bowling Green State University)
  
  
• 2022 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize: Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University) and Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)

• 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
  
  
  • Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia)
  • Megan Craig (Stony Brook University)
  • Iskra Fileva (University of Colorado Boulder
  • S. Andrew Schroeder (Claremont McKenna College)
  • Annette Zimmermann (University of York & Harvard University)

• 2021 Alvin Plantinga Prize: Lara Buchak (Princeton University)
  
  
  • Honorable Mention: Charity Anderson (Baylor University)
  • Honorable Mention: Aaron Segal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    
    
• 2020 Israel Scheffler Prize in Philosophy of Education: Colin Macleod (University of Victoria)
  
  
• 2023 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)

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NEWARK, Del. — May 25, 2022 — The Whiting Foundation has just announced that they will be awarding six $50,000 Fellowships and five $10,000 Seed Grants to a vibrant cross-section of public-humanities collaborations. We are pleased to announce that the APA’s nominee Dr. Melissa Jacquart (University of Cincinnati) has been awarded one of the $50,000 Fellowships for her project, Bringing Philosophy to Science Fairs—an after-school Philosophy & Science Fair Club for 7th and 8th grade students in Cincinnati. For more information, please see the Whiting Foundation’s announcement.

The Whiting Public Engagement Program (WPEP) is a distinctive national grant founded to champion the public humanities in all forms, and to highlight the roles scholars play in working to deploy the humanities for the public good. Since it began in 2016, the WPEP has given $2.7 million to launch and expand projects in the US and beyond. Winners are selected through a highly competitive process beginning with nomination by a university or humanities nonprofit and proceeding through two further stages of peer review by expert public humanists.

Melissa Jacquart is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati and Associate Director for the Center for Public Engagement with Science. Her research focuses on epistemological issues in the philosophy of science, specifically on the use of models and computer simulations in astrophysics. She also examines the role philosophy can play in general public understanding of science, and in science education. Her interests include values in science, science policy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of education, particularly developing effective teaching methodologies for philosophy. Jacquart has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania and the Carnegie Observatories. She received a PhD in Philosophy at Western University, where she is also a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy.

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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The Whiting Foundation provides targeted support for writers, scholars, and the stewards of humanity’s shared cultural heritage. In addition to the Public Engagement Program, Whiting’s grants include, in the United States, the Whiting Award for emerging writers, Creative Nonfiction Grant for works in progress, Literary Magazine Prize, and, globally, a portfolio of grants to preserve and disseminate endangered cultural heritage.

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NEWARK, Del. — April 5, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Cristina Lafont, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, and Dr. Alex Guerrero, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, have won the 2022 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Awarded annually by PBK in conjunction with the APA, this prize recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of philosophy. Each winner will be awarded an honorarium.

The Lebowitz Prize was established in 2012 by a generous bequest from Eve Lewellis Lebowitz in honor of her late husband, Martin R. Lebowitz, a distinguished philosophical critic. Lebowitz Prize winners must be two philosophers who hold contrasting views on a chosen topic of current interest in philosophy. They present their views and engage in a dialogue at an annual Lebowitz symposium, held during an APA divisional meeting.

Cristina Lafont, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Lafont has taught philosophy at Northwestern University since 1995. Her current research focuses on normative questions in political philosophy concerning democracy and citizen participation, global governance, human rights, religion, and politics. Her most recent book is Democracy without Shortcuts (Oxford University Press, 2020), and she has also published numerous articles in contemporary moral and political philosophy.

Alexander Guerrero, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York University. Dr. Guerrero has taught philosophy at Rutgers University since 2016. His current research focuses on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, and epistemology. His forthcoming book, Lottocracy: A New Kind of Democracy (under contract with Oxford University Press) argues that lotteries should be used to select political officials rather than elections. Dr. Guerrero is a member of the APA committee on the status and future of the profession.

Professors Lafont and Guerrero’s topic for the 2022 Lebowitz Prize is “Democracy: What’s Wrong? What Should We Do?” They will present their work in April 2023 at the APA Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco, CA.

The winners will present their work in January 2021 at the APA Eastern Division meeting in New York, NY.

Nominations/applications for the 2023 Lebowitz Prize will open in early fall 2022; the deadline is November 30, 2022. Please click here for more information.

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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Founded on Dec. 5, 1776, The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society. It has chapters at 290 colleges and universities in the United States, almost 50 alumni associations, and more than half a million members worldwide. Noteworthy members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 42 U.S. Supreme Court Justices and more than 150 Nobel Laureates. The mission of The Phi Beta Kappa Society is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence. For more information, visit www.pbk.org.

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NEWARK, Del. — Feb. 18, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce that the inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize in the amount of $10,000 has been awarded to Lara Buchak (Princeton University) for her essay, “Faith and Traditions.”

The APA has also awarded two honorable mentions in the amount of $5,000 each to Charity Anderson (Baylor University) for “Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument” and to Aaron Segal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for “Dependence, Transcendence, and Creaturely Freedom: On the Incompatibility of Three Theistic Doctrines.”

The Alvin Plantinga Prize is funded through the generosity of the Bossenbroek Family Foundation. This prize recognizes original essays that engage philosophical issues about or in substantial ways related to theism. Submissions were assessed according to canons of excellence for which Alvin Plantinga is eminent: clarity, rigor, and originality.

Peter Graham, chair of the APA committee on lectures, publications, and research, gave the following commendations for these three essays, “Lara Buchak’s prize-winning paper ‘Faith and Traditions’ addresses the nature of allegiance to, and break from, a tradition—whether it be Christianity or Islam or atheism or some other tradition. Allegiance to, and break from, a tradition has three central features. First, individuals who adhere to a tradition seem to respond dogmatically to evidence against their tradition. Second, individuals from different traditions appear to see the same evidence differently. And third, conversion from one tradition to another appears to happen suddenly or discontinuously rather than gradually and smoothly. Relying on the risky-commitment account of faith, Buchak argues for the surprising conclusion that these three features can all emerge from individuals rationally having faith in the core assumptions of their tradition.

Lara Buchak is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. She received her PhD from Princeton in 2009, and taught at UC Berkeley for 12 years before returning to Princeton. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion. In philosophy of religion, her primary research has been on the nature and rationality of faith, both in the religious and mundane sense. She argues that faith requires stopping one's search for evidence and making a commitment—and maintaining that commitment in the face of counterevidence. She details when such faith is rational, and how it is beneficial to human life. She has also written about free will and about probabilistic arguments for and against theism. Outside of philosophy of religion, she is best known for her work in decision theory, which concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions. She argues that individuals with different attitudes towards risk—considered as different ways to weight worse scenarios against better ones—can all be rational. She has recently applied this work to ethics and social decision-making.

Charity Anderson is an associate professor of philosophy at Baylor University. Her research is in epistemology and philosophy of religion, with a focus on issues concerning fallibilism, evidence, epistemic modals, invariantism, and knowledge norms. Anderson’s current research projects include the topics of divine hiddenness, evidential uptake, wishful thinking, and expanding awareness. She is currently the PI for a Templeton grant titled “Divine Hiddenness: Shifting the Debate.”

Aaron Segal is the Michael and Bella Guggenheim Senior Lecturer in the department of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works primarily on metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and Jewish philosophy, and has published in Mind, Nous, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers’ Imprint, Religious Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, and elsewhere. Aaron co-edited (with Daniel Frank) the volumes Jewish Philosophy Past and Present: Contemporary Responses to Classical Sources (Routledge, 2017) and Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2021), and (with Samuel Lebens and Dani Rabinowitz) the volume Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age (Oxford, 2019). Aaron holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame (2013). For more information about Aaron’s research, please visit his website.

Charity Anderson	Aaron Segal

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NEWARK, Del. — Feb. 17, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:

The APA committee on public philosophy sponsors this annual contest, which includes a $100 monetary award per essay, for the best opinion-editorials published by philosophers. The goal is to honor standout pieces that successfully blend philosophical argumentation with an op-ed writing style.

Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She received her DPhil from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, and freedom of association. Her previous work focused on civil disobedience, punishment, and restorative justice. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford UP, 2020) and Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford UP, 2012). She is the co-editor of Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights (Oxford UP, forthcoming), The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley, 2016) and Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford UP, 2009).

Megan Craig is a multimedia artist, essayist, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York, where she is one of the core faculty members in the department's Master's Degree Program in Philosophy and Art. She is the author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology (Indiana University Press), and co-editor, with Marcia Morgan, of Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (Rowman & Littlefield). Craig is also the Graphic Designer for Firehouse 12 Records in New Haven, Connecticut.

Iskra Fileva is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. She specializes in moral psychology and issues at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry. She also does some work in aesthetics and epistemology. Her articles have appeared in such journals as: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Philosophical Studies, and American Philosophical Quarterly. In addition to her academic work, Iskra enjoys writing for a broad audience. She has written op-eds for the New York Times and maintains a column at the popular site Psychology Today, where she has published more than 70 essays on a wide variety of topics, including self-sabotage, parents who envy their children, asymmetrical friendships, fear of death, love without commitment, and many others. She has also given a number of radio and podcast interviews.

Andrew Schroeder is an associate professor of philosophy and incoming associate dean of the faculty for research at Claremont McKenna College. His research and teaching cover a range of topics in ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of disability. Currently, he is looking at the value judgments that are a part of scientific research – the value judgments involved, for example, in operationalizing a concept like poverty, developing a classification scheme for infectious diseases, or balancing the risk of error in a climate model.  Much of Schroeder’s work seeks to assess decisions like these using tools, concepts, and principles from political philosophy, with the aim of figuring out how scientists can best contribute to democratic governance.  His work on these topics has been supported by a Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS.

Dr. Annette Zimmermann is a political philosopher working on the ethics of algorithmic decision-making, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Additional research interests include moral philosophy (particularly the ethics of risk and uncertainty), the philosophy of law (the philosophy of punishment), and the philosophy of science (models, explanation, abstraction). Zimmermann’s current research explores how disproportionate distributions of risk and uncertainty associated with the use of emerging technologies like AI and machine learning impact democratic values like equality and justice. They are currently working on a book manuscript titled “The Algorithmic is Political.” Zimmermann is a permanent Lecturer (US equivalent: Assistant Professor) in Philosophy at the University of York, as well as a Technology & Human Rights Fellow (2020-22) at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. They conducted their postdoctoral research at the Center for Human Values and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University (2018-20). Zimmermann holds a DPhil (Nuffield College, 2018) and MPhil (St Cross College, 2014) from the University of Oxford, as well as a BA from the Freie Universität Berlin (2012). They have spent time as a visiting researcher at Stanford University (2020), the Australian National University (2019), and Yale University (2016).

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Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

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NEWARK, Del. — Jan. 25, 2022 — The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce that Professor Heather Battaly has been appointed to succeed Professor John Heil as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (J-APA), its flagship research journal. Launched in 2015 in cooperation with Cambridge University Press, J-APA is now a leading international journal publishing scholarship in all topics, areas, styles, and traditions of philosophy. Battaly’s four-year term will begin on January 1, 2023.

Heather Battaly is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, having previously taught at California State University, Fullerton. She is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophical Research.

Dominic McIver Lopes, chair of the APA board of officers and chair of the search committee, said,

The Journal of the American Philosophical Association is core to the APA’s mission to provide venues where philosophers of every stripe can share the very best new work. Under the leadership of Heather Battaly, with her insider knowledge of the Association, deep editorial experience, stalwart commitment to philosophical pluralism, and impeccable judgment as a scholar, the journal will continue to achieve the highest standards of excellence and breadth.

Of her appointment, Battaly said,

I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the editorial team at the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (J-APA). I admire and embrace the Journal’s mission to publish groundbreaking articles in philosophy of the highest quality, which take risks and start trends, and are written to be accessible to a general readership of philosophers. I look forward to building on the excellent work that John Heil and the associate editors have done in J-APA’s formative years. I am especially excited about continuing to expand inclusion, representation, and access, and about increasing J-APA’s online presence.

Published quarterly, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association provides a platform for original work in all areas of philosophy. The journal aims to publish compelling papers written in a way that can be appreciated by philosophers of every persuasion.

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

Contact

Amy Ferrer
APA Executive Director
302-831-1112
amyferrer@apaonline.org

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 17, 2021 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it has reinstated all grant funding programs and will provide grants to 10 philosophy-related projects in the 2021–2022 fiscal year. For more information on these programs, visit the funded projects page of our website. Congratulations to all grant recipients!

The board of officers originally committed up to $10,000 for 2021–2022 to support a program aiming to increase the presence and participation of underrepresented groups in philosophy. Learn more. Out of 11 applications seeking a total of $110,000 in support, the board ultimately chose to fund the following two projects at $10,000 each.

Each fiscal year, the APA Eastern Division provides $25,000 for the APA’s Small Grant Program. This year’s grant application process was quite competitive, with 23 proposals requesting more than $88,000 from our $25,000 grant fund. The following eight programs will receive funding:

Diversity and Inclusiveness Grants

NHSEBBridge: Promoting Student Access and Equity in the National High School Ethics Bowl ($10,000)

NHSEBBridge is a new, pilot-stage initiative at the Parr Center for Ethics, designed for schools new to the National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB). NHSEBBridge specifically targets underserved communities and under-resourced schools who may not otherwise have access to the NHSEB’s academic, social, and civic benefits. The program is tightly integrated with a service-learning course in the Philosophy Department at UNC-CH. In addition to teaching the fundamentals of ethics pedagogy and the essentials of deliberative democracy, the course partners UNC undergraduates directly with schools participating in the NHSEBBridge program in order to design pedagogy resources and coach participants (both students and teachers) on ethical reasoning, moral theories, argument construction, and bowl mechanics, in a series of virtually conducted 1:1 site visits. NHSEBBridge culminates in a brand new, online-only Ethics Bowl event for participating schools, carefully designed to welcome them to NHSEB.

Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) ($10,000)

Most undergraduate students in North America only read and discuss “Western,” Anglo-European philosophy in their philosophy courses. The problem is not that philosophy professors are generally unwilling to teach traditionally underrepresented areas such as African, Latin American, Indigenous, East Asian, South Asian, and Islamic philosophy. Rather, the problem is that most lack the familiarity needed to competently teach work in these areas. The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) project will be a yearly week-long summer workshop aimed towards remedying this problem, by teaching philosophy teachers about a given underrepresented area, so that they can then teach it in their general undergraduate courses. Each year, NEWLAMP will focus on a different area, starting with African and Africana social and political philosophy in the summer 2022. Three esteemed experts will be chosen to structure and lead the workshop.

Small Grant Program

Chapter Seed Grants for the MAP Mentoring Program ($3,000)

Although the diversity of philosophy is increasing at the undergraduate level, there is still a significant gap between the percentage of underrepresented students that major in philosophy and the percentage that complete PhDs. In order to bridge this gap, this project plans to create three seed chapters of the Minorities and Philosophy Mentoring Program, an initiative that pairs underrepresented undergraduate students with graduate student mentors for support applying to graduate school. Using our experience developing the MAP Mentoring Program at Florida State University, we will provide the training and resources necessary to help all seed chapters become established student organizations at their universities, providing current and future institutional support for underrepresented philosophy students.

Creating an Open Access Bibliographic Database for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusiveness Philosophy Literature ($4,982)

The “demographic challenges” faced by philosophy have attracted considerable attention in recent decades, generating a rapidly expanding literature on equity, diversity, and inclusiveness (EDI) issues in Philosophy. These resources are, however, widely distributed and sometimes difficult to find. Crucial empirical reports, analyses of the issues, and recommendations for action are at risk of being ignored, past efforts duplicated, and gaps in previous work persisting in new studies.

To improve access to these resources we have developed a comprehensive online bibliography of English-language publications on EDI issues: the Philosophy Exception website. This project builds on this initiative; our aim is to reconfigure this website as a searchable database with robust filtering and sorting features, so these resources are easily discoverable. The web-based platform will be designed to ensure long-term sustainability and to be easily scalable to include an expanded range of EDI resources.

Dialogue and Transformation: Bringing Philosophy to Juvenile Justice Educators in North Carolina ($2,000)

“Dialogue and Transformation” brings philosophy to Juvenile Justice Centers in North Carolina. In Spring 2021, we offered a successful pilot program remotely teaching Plato’s Republic to students at Cabarrus Youth Development Center in Concord, NC. The present proposal will expand the program’s capacity by launching a new pilot program to “teach the teachers.” In Fall 2021 we will host a series of virtual professional development seminars available to all educators in the NC Juvenile Justice network. Our efforts will culminate in an intensive weekend seminar hosted by the Philosophy Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, where we will equip Juvenile Justice educators with the skills, knowledge, and strategies needed to incorporate Plato’s Republic into their curricula and classrooms. With the APA’s support, we will reach students for generations to come by offering an unprecedented and replicable program for teacher formation centered on philosophical inquiry in high school.

Iowa Lyceum Expansion Initiative ($2,500)

The Iowa Lyceum is a one-week pre-college philosophy program organized by University of Iowa graduate students. Graduate students use P4C principles in introductory philosophy sessions to prepare participants for philosophical discussion. The Lyceum is free for participants—removing potential financial limitations which can otherwise prevent expansion of philosophy into the public sphere, thereby making philosophy more accessible to traditionally underrepresented groups in the discipline. In response to Covid, the Lyceum shifted from being hosted in-person at the University of Iowa’s campus to an online setting, which enabled us to open the program to students across the country and internationally. This brought applicants from 14 states and four non-US countries. For the 2022 Lyceum, we intend to permanently expand by developing a hybrid model of the program to bring philosophy to pre-college students across the country and internationally while also hosting an in-person Lyceum.

Open-Access Publication of the Original IAPC Philosophy for Children Curriculum ($5,000)

From 1974 through 1996 the late American philosopher Matthew Lipman (1929–2010) and his colleague Ann Margaret Sharp (1942–2010) produced the first systematic P-12 philosophy curriculum, at the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) at Montclair State University. The curriculum consists of a series of eight novels, sequenced for subject matter and inquiry skills, that foreground ethical, political, aesthetic, logical, and other philosophical dimensions of experience, with instructional manuals providing introductions to philosophical ideas found in the novels and exercises to deepen young people’s philosophical inquiry. To date, there are 168 translations (culturally adapted) of these groundbreaking titles, in sixteen languages, in thirty countries. However, their original editions are no longer in print and are not currently available for use or study. The IAPC seeks to digitize them, optimize them for visual accessibility, and make them freely available online.

Queens Public Philosophy ($1,470)

Queens Public Philosophy is a new group dedicated to engaging the public in philosophical events and activities in one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse areas of the country, the Borough of Queens, New York. As a first project, we would like to hold a series free workshops partnered with the Queens Public Library where we offer sessions on philosophy and critical thinking. We want to create several virtual and in-person “communities of inquiry” for the public. To do so, we want to train a new generation of philosophers in the process by offering paid training in public philosophy for our very diverse and working-class community college students. We aim to develop on-the-ground, direct, and grass roots community action to develop meaningful, inter-generational, and cross-cultural philosophical dialogue between young people in academic philosophy, and non-academic members of the community of Queens.

Teaching Philosophy with Role Immersion: A Training Conference ($1,000)

Teaching Political Philosophy with Role-Immersion is a conference to train philosophy instructors in the use of role-immersion pedagogy. Role-immersion games see students adopt the role of a character, from whose point of view they give speeches, write essays and work with and against other players. Commercially available games are designed for use in history classrooms. This conference will feature Justice: The Game, which to our knowledge is the first role-immersion game designed for use in (political) philosophy classes. Players play the roles of members of a national assembly, each of whom seeks to pass resolutions inspired by a reading in political philosophy. Philosophers whose work informs the game include Elizabeth Anderson, Ronald Dworkin, Chandran Kukathas, Will Kymlicka, Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin, John Rawls and K.C. Tan. Conference attendees will play the complete game over the course of two days, after which they will be able to run it in their own classrooms.

Tools for Philosophers Pursuing Non-Academic Careers ($5,000)

The immediate aim of this project is to develop a resource that helps philosophers identify employment opportunities commensurate with their skills and education as well as translate their work, skills, and experiences, especially as PhDs, into a narrative that is legible to a broader audience. We believe the latter will help with the former, because it is difficult to identify which employment opportunities we are qualified for without identifying what qualifications we have. In addition, we aim to identify a network of non-academic philosophers around which we can build a professional community of mentors and collaborators. We will take special care to document skills, resources, mentors, and communities that benefit marginalized philosophers who have been crowded out of the profession.

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

Contact

Amy Ferrer
APA Executive Director
302-831-1112
amyferrer@apaonline.org

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 14, 2021 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that the board of officers has selected Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania) as the recipient of the 2021 Philip L. Quinn Prize, the APA’s highest honor for service to the profession.

The prize memorializes Philip L. Quinn, a former president of the APA Central Division and former chair of the APA board of officers. This prize, which includes a prize check of $2,500 and an engraved plaque, is given annually by the APA board of officers in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed.

Dominic McIver Lopes, chair of the APA board of officers, said, “Anita Allen once remarked in an interview that she’s ‘committed to helping to improve the discipline.’ Nobody has surpassed her in that regard. She famously challenged us to reflect upon what we have to offer those we’ve excluded and hope to include, and she’s championed inclusion at every opportunity. She pioneered the philosophy of privacy, balancing it against accountability and equity. She’s taken the message of philosophy to the airwaves, even appearing on 60 Minutes. And she has served professionally, at the highest levels, as President of the APA Eastern Division, as chair of the board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and as a member of President Barak Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She holds two honorary doctorates and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In awarding her the 2021 Philip L. Quinn Prize, the APA celebrates Professor Anita Allen for her extraordinary blend of scholarship and leadership.”

Anita L. Allen is Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013–2020. At Penn she is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. A graduate of Harvard Law School with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Allen is an expert on privacy and data protection law, bioethics, and public philosophy. Currently chair of the Board of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington D.C., 2020–2022, in June 2014 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from EPIC for her pioneering privacy scholarship and advocacy; and for the same accomplishment she was awarded honorary doctorates from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the College of Wooster in the United States. She has been named among the world’s top 20 philosophers by Academic Influence. Allen was President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (2018–19), the first African American woman in history to be so-named. An elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Academy of Medicine, she is a former member of the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Allen served under President Obama as a member of the National Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Allen also has served on numerous editorial, advisory, and non-profit boards including the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, the Association of American Law Schools, the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the Hastings Center, and the National Constitution Center. Allen has been a full-time visiting professor at, among others, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Villanova Law School, Waseda Law School (Tokyo), and Tel Aviv Buchman Law School. Allen is co-author of Privacy Law and Society (2016), a comprehensive textbook in the field. Allen’s other books about data protection, values and contemporary life include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (2011); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004), Why Privacy Isn’t Everything (2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society. Allen, who has written more than 120 scholarly articles, has also contributed and been featured in popular magazines and blogs, including “The Stone” and “What It’s Like to be a Philosopher,” and appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and lectured on privacy in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. 

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

Contact

Amy Ferrer
APA Executive Director
302-831-1112
amyferrer@apaonline.org

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NEWARK, Del. — Dec. 14, 2021 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 13 prizes for the second half of 2021. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2021 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!

• 2021 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The National High School Ethics Bowl (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• 2021 Book Prize: C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)
  
  
  • Honorable Mention: Julia Staffel (University of Colorado at Boulder)

• 2022 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize: Sarah Lewis (Harvard University)
  
  
  • Honorable Mention: Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Capilano University)
    
    
• 2022 John Dewey Lectures:

• Eastern: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)
  
  
• Central: Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  
  
• Pacific: Margaret Gilbert (University of California, Irvine)

• 2021 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Ernesto Rosen Velasquez (University of Dayton)

• 2021 Joseph B. Gittler Award: Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge)

• 2022 William James Prize: Caleb Ward (University of Hamburg)
  
  
• 2022 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy: Chong-Ming Lim (Stanford University)
  
  
• 2021 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania)
  

• 2021 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize:
  
  
  • James Fritz (Virginia Commonwealth University)
    
    
  • Junyeol Kim (Chungbuk University)
    
    
• 2022 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
  
  
  • Samuel Director (Brown University)
    
    
  • Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre (McGill University)
    
    
  • Elise Woodard (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
    
    
• 2021 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize: Lee-Ann Chae (Temple University)
  
  
• 2021 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Monica Janzen (Anoka-Ramsey Community College)

About the APA

Founded in 1900, the American Philosophical Association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. The APA supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry.

Contact

Amy Ferrer
Executive Director
302-831-1112
amyferrer@apaonline.org

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