The American Philosophical Affiliation (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) are happy to announce that Dr. Cristina Lafont, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern College, and Dr. Alex Guerrero, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers College, have received the 2022 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Awarded yearly by PBK along with the APA, this prize acknowledges excellent achievement within the discipline of philosophy. Every winner will likely be awarded an honorarium.
The Lebowitz Prize was established in 2012 by a beneficiant bequest from Eve Lewellis Lebowitz in honor of her late husband, Martin R. Lebowitz, a distinguished philosophical critic. Lebowitz Prize winners have to be two philosophers who maintain contrasting views on a selected subject of present curiosity in philosophy. They current their views and interact in a dialogue at an annual Lebowitz symposium, held throughout an APA divisional assembly.
Cristina Lafont, Ph.D., acquired her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the College of Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Lafont has taught philosophy at Northwestern College since 1995. Her present analysis focuses on normative questions in political philosophy regarding democracy and citizen participation, international governance, human rights, faith, and politics. Her most up-to-date e-book is Democracy with out Shortcuts (Oxford College Press, 2020), and he or she has additionally revealed quite a few articles in modern ethical and political philosophy.
Alexander Guerrero, Ph.D., acquired his Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York College. Dr. Guerrero has taught philosophy at Rutgers College since 2016. His present analysis focuses on quite a lot of matters in ethical, authorized, and political philosophy, and epistemology. His forthcoming e-book, Lottocracy: A New Type of Democracy (below contract with Oxford College Press) argues that lotteries needs to be used to pick out political officers quite than elections. Dr. Guerrero is a member of the APA committee on the standing and way forward for the career.
Professors Lafont and Guerrero’s subject for the 2022 Lebowitz Prize is “Democracy: What’s Mistaken? What Ought to We Do?” They are going to current their work in April 2023 on the APA Pacific Division assembly in San Francisco, CA. Nominations/purposes for the 2023 Lebowitz Prize will open in early fall 2022; the deadline is November 30, 2022. Please click here for more information.
