APA Announces Winners of 14 Prizes

Beneath are the prizes and their winners (and when obtainable, feedback from the judges):

• 2022 Article Prize — for the most effective, printed article by a youthful scholar within the earlier two years ($2000)
  Sarah Moss (College of Michigan), “Pragmatic Encroachment and Legal Proof” (Philosophical Points, 2021)
  From the choice committee: In “Pragmatic Encroachment and Authorized Proof” Sarah Moss argues that the difficulty of pragmatic encroachment, or the diploma to which one’s perception constitutes data given the results of appearing upon that perception, raises a basic drawback concerning American trial process. If pragmatic elements can matter to data possession the query of whether or not the usual of authorized proof, i.e. data, is met by a selected jury in a felony trial might rely, crucially, on what’s at stake. Right here, Moss contends, lies the issue. For related stakes in felony trials embody the results to be confronted by the defendant if discovered responsible—but this info is usually withheld from jurors in felony trials. There’s therefore good purpose to share info concerning penalties of verdicts with jurors. Moss additionally discusses what sorts of concerns are related to the query of whether or not to institute authorized reform, and if undertaken how such reform could be completed. This text is an exemplary occasion of utilized epistemology. It’s to be recommended for utilizing theoretical developments in epistemology to boost a basic concern regarding American authorized apply, and for doing so in a way that’s rigorous, clear, and compelling whereas additionally being accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

• 2022 Philip L. Quinn Prize — in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers ($2500 + plaque)
  Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Heart)
  From Dominic McIver Lopes, chair of the APA board of officers: Virginia Held is well known throughout philosophy for her trailblazing contributions to the ethics of care. Correcting an overemphasis on impartiality, she has put caring relations and duties entrance and heart in modern ethics. Tributes to the ability of her concepts embody a Fulbright Fellowship, a Distinguished Girl Thinker Award, the Hunter School Presidential Award, and election to the Presidency of the APA’s Jap Division. On the identical time, she has modeled how a caring disposition can rework the apply of philosophy. Repeatedly, by no means calling particular consideration to herself, she has been there for generations of junior philosophers, prepared to supply them encouragement and perception, serving to them to navigate the sexism that riddled the career, demonstrating how one can persevere with quiet dignity, good sense, and compelling arguments. For her contributions to data and for the perfect of mentorship that she personifies, the American Philosophical Affiliation is delighted to award Virginia Held the 2022 Philip L. Quinn Prize.

• 2023 John Dewey Lectures — given by distinguished and senior (usually retired) philosophers related to every Division of the APA, who’s invited to mirror broadly and in an autobiographical spirit on philosophy in America as seen from the attitude of a private mental journey ($1000)
  • Jap: Howard McGary (Rutgers College)
    From the choice committee: Howard McGary obtained his PhD from the College of Minnesota and is a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers College. He was the founder and former director of the Rutgers Summer time Institute for Range in Philosophy. Most of his analysis has centered on an examination of liberalism and issues regarding theories of compensatory justice, collective accountability, and distributive justice, particularly as these theories relate to individuals who’ve skilled (or are experiencing) discrimination and subjugation. In 2021 he was the Uheiro Lecturer at Oxford College (postponed attributable to pandemic till fall of 2022). The Jap Division is honored to have him share his perspective on philosophy in America on the 2023 Dewey Lecture.
  • Central: Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis College)
    From the choice committee: Eleonore Stump is among the world’s leaders in medieval philosophy, the philosophy of faith, and metaphysics. Throughout her lengthy and distinguished profession—for 30 years at Saint Louis College—she has written ten books and tons of of articles in these areas, each about their historical past (Aquinas, Augustine, Boethius) and about varied particular subjects (atonement, struggling, eternity, freedom). She was the President of the Central Division of the APA, served on the Nationwide Govt Board of the APA, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Pacific: Ann Garry (California State College, Los Angeles)
    From the choice committee: One of many founding technology of feminist philosophers, Garry’s analysis pursuits in feminist philosophy vary broadly. They embody feminist approaches to epistemology and philosophical strategies, significantly the intersection of feminist philosophy and analytic philosophy, in addition to ethical and social subjects akin to pornography, abortion, feminist analyses of sexuality, and many others. At the moment she focuses on intersectional frameworks. She co-edited Girls, Data, and Actuality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy and the particular concern of Hypatia, “Transgender Research and Feminism: Concept, Politics, and Gender Realities.” She served as Interim Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy with Serene Khader and Alison Stone, and in addition co-edited The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (2017) with them. She was chosen by SWIP in 2021 because the Distinguished Girl Thinker.

• 2023 Sanders Lecture — introduced yearly at a divisional assembly of the APA on a subject in philosophy of thoughts, metaphysics, or epistemology that engages the analytic custom ($3500 + journey bills)
  Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers College, New Brunswick)

• 2023 Fred Berger Memorial Prize — for an excellent printed article in philosophy of legislation by an APA member ($500 + symposium)
  John Oberdiek (Rutgers College Faculty of Legislation), “The Wrong in Negligence” (Oxford Journal of Authorized Research, 2021)
  From the choice committee: Professor Oberdiek’s intently argued paper means that the wrongness of actions that represent a tort is wholly grounded within the agent’s breach of an obligation of care that the agent owes to the particular person harmed. Any materials hurt executed just isn’t strictly talking vital for the motion in query to be fallacious. This places the view at odds with extra orthodox relational justifications of torts in addition to with purely instrumental justifications. The committee was impressed with each the energy of the argument and the standard of the writing.

• 2022 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought — for the most effective unpublished, English-language, philosophical essay in Latin American thought ($500)
  Paula Landerreche Cardillo (DePaul College), “The Theater of Data on the Zero-Level as a Colonial Enterprise: Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Engagement with Kant”
  From the choice committee: The APA Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs in Philosophy is happy to award the 2022 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought to Paula Landerreche Cardillo for her essay, “The Theater of Data on the Zero-Level as a Colonial Enterprise: Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Engagement with Kant.” The Committee commends Dr. Landerreche Cardillo for her glorious contribution, which we discovered revolutionary, rigorous, and the easiest consultant English-language essay in Latin American Considered 2022.
  • Honorable Point out: Juan Garcia Torres (Wingate College), “Decolonizing the Thoughts and Genuine Self-Creation a la Jorge Portilla”
  • Honorable Point out: Saraliza Anzaldua (College of California-Los Angeles), “Mexica Monism and Daoist Ethics: Trauma Restoration in Anzaldua’s Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Physique”

• 2023 William James Prize — for the most effective paper within the space of American philosophy that’s each (a) written by a thinker who obtained their PhD inside 5 years of the start of the calendar 12 months by which the paper is submitted, or is a graduate scholar, and (b) accepted for inclusion within the Jap Division program by this system committee by the conventional technique of anonymous-reviewing ($300)
  Hannah Widmaier (UCLA), “Civic Obligations Amongst Victims of Injustice: On Shelby’s Thought of Reciprocity”

• 2023 Patrick Romanell Lecture — for work on “philosophical naturalism” ( $1200 + bills)
  Stephen Stich (Rutgers College)
  From the choice committee: Stephen Stich is the 2023 Romanell Lecturer in philosophical naturalism. Stich’s quite a few contributions to philosophy prolong throughout philosophy of cognitive science and linguistics, philosophy of thoughts, epistemology, and philosophy of language. At every step, he has sought to contemplate the implications of the newest and greatest empirical work upon philosophical questions and strategies. In latest a long time, he has been essential in initiating a flip to experimental work in philosophy. Stich carried out essential experiments, spurred the following examination of philosophical methodology, and mentored lots of the different philosophers who participated. The result’s a physique of labor that’s each deeply philosophical and intently knowledgeable by a naturalistic conception of humanity’s place on the earth.

• 2022 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest — for the most effective opinion-editorials printed by philosophers ($100)
  • Max Khan Hayward (The College of Sheffield), “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! No, Really” (The Atlantic, 2021)
  • Milena Ivanova (The College of Cambridge), “The Beautiful Experiment” (Aeon, 2021)
  • A. Minh Nguyen (Florida Gulf Coast College), “When Your Daughter Is Told ‘Your Face Is Not American’” (The Information-Press, 2021)
  • Nathan Nobis (Morehouse School) and Jonathan Dudley (Johns Hopkins), “Why the case against abortion is weak, ethically speaking” (Salon, 2021)
  • Lisa Forsberg (Oxford College) and Anthony Skelton (College of Western Ontario), “3 reasons for making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for children” (The Dialog, 2021)

• 2023 Sanders Graduate Student Awards — three prizes; awarded to the most effective papers in thoughts, metaphysics, epistemology, or ethics submitted for the annual APA Jap Division assembly by graduate college students ($1000)
• • Michael Luoma (Queen’s College), “Territorial rights and restitution: the boundaries of forwards—and backwards—wanting theories”
  • Ryan Miller (College of Geneva), “Artifacts: Ontology as Straightforward because it Will get”
  • Sara Purinton (The College of Pennsylvania), “Incapacity and Diachronic Company: Fluctuating Talents, Fluctuating Values”

For extra info, go to the APA’s site.

(by way of Erin Shepherd)