The American Philosophical Affiliation (APA) has introduced the winners of a number of current prizes.
The winners and their prizes are listed under (descriptions of the prizes are from the American Philosophical Association’s website):
2022 APA/PDC Prize
Outreach Invitational High School Ethics Bowl (Heart for Public Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz)
Collectively sponsored with the Philosophy Documentation Heart, this prize acknowledges philosophy departments, analysis facilities, institutes, societies, publishers, and different organizations for creating packages that danger endeavor new initiatives in philosophy and accomplish that with excellence and success, and to publicize the success of those packages so they could encourage and affect others to comply with their lead. The prize consists of campus-wide digital entry to a bundle of philosophy assets for a complete yr, valued at over $3000.
From the choice committee: This program supplies a low-stakes strategy to introduce college students to the Ethics Bowl, within the course of conveying to them a way of belonging at school, making school really feel extra accessible. With over a dozen colleges collaborating, the success of this program is as a result of progressive work of this system directors and the involvement of undergraduate college students and members of the group past the college in making a public discussion board to advance the general public good.
2023 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship
Elad Uzan (College of Oxford)
Awarded as soon as each three years, this fellowship helps analysis on matters which have some bearing on the philosophical pursuits of the late David Baumgardt. Broadly talking, these pursuits have been within the examination and comparability of kinds of morality related to sturdy cultural and spiritual traditions, equivalent to Judaism and Christianity, or primarily based on sure contrasting rules (for instance, love and justice on the one hand, energy or forgiveness on the opposite). The fellowship quantity is $10,000.
From the choice committee: Dr. Uzan’s challenge that goals at growing an ethical and authorized framework for the termination of battle is well timed and extremely compelling. It’s also extraordinarily well-aligned with the prize mandate. Working broadly within the simply battle custom, Dr. Uzan makes a persuasive case for contemplating time or period as a consider assessing the morality of armed battle. It’s exhausting to think about a extra becoming venue for Dr. Uzan’s Baumgardt Memorial lectures on the ethics of ending wars than Oxford College’s Uehiro Centre for Sensible Ethics.
2024 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize
Ryan Doran (College of Barcelona/College of Cambridge)
Honorable Point out: John Dyck (Clemson College)
Awarded to a member of the APA and the ASA for the very best paper within the area of aesthetics, broadly understood, in a refereed journal, or an unique e-book chapter or unique essay revealed in a group. The prize is $1000.
From the choice committee: Ryan Doran’s essay “Ugliness Is within the Intestine of the Beholder” is an unique, wide-ranging, and penetrating evaluation of our idea of ugliness that makes use of a powerful vary of the empirical literature on feelings. As Doran argues, ugliness is grounded in our disposition to really feel disgusted. A fortiori, the aesthetics of ugliness raises some severe moral questions because the emotion of disgust can be liable for our tendency to dehumanize and exclude others from the human group. Doran’s article exemplifies the virtues of an interdisciplinary strategy to philosophical aesthetics. It’s for this very cause that he’s a really deserving recipient of this yr’s Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics prize.
2024 John Dewey Lectures
Japanese: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers College)
Central: Stephen Darwall (Yale College)
The Dewey Lectures are three annual lectures, one at every divisional assembly of the APA (Japanese, Central, and Pacific), given by a distinguished and senior (sometimes retired) thinker related to that Division, who’s invited to replicate broadly and in an autobiographical spirit on philosophy in America as seen from the angle of a private mental journey. The APA publishes the Dewey Lectures every year within the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Affiliation.
2022 Gittler Award
Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning)
The Joseph B. Gittler Award is given for an excellent scholarly contribution within the area of the philosophy of a number of of the social sciences. The vary of the social sciences is construed broadly in order to incorporate anthropology, economics, training, authorities, historical past, psychology, sociology, and another area that’s usually positioned throughout the social science division in modern faculties and universities. The prize is $4000.
From the choice committee: The choice committee for the Joseph B. Gittler Award for excellent scholarly contribution within the area of the philosophy of a number of of the social sciences has enthusiastically chosen Gregg Caruso’s, Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Legal Justice for the 2022 prize. Caruso’s thorough and well-argued e-book makes the case in opposition to retributivist and deterrence-focused justifications for legal punishment. Of their place, he attracts on a public well being framework in growing a “public health-quarantine mannequin” that prioritizes prevention and social justice. The ensuing account accommodates free will skepticism and supplies principled constraints on the remedy of criminals. Caruso’s concepts present the grounds for a radical and principled reformation of acquainted legal justice methods and his e-book makes a very important contribution to the philosophy of social science.
2022 Hampton Prize
Pascal Brixel (Clemson College/Northwestern College)
The Jean Hampton Prize is awarded biennially to a thinker at a junior profession stage whose paper is accepted for the Pacific Division assembly. The paper should be in some space of philosophy by which Professor Hampton labored, together with social and political philosophy, foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of regulation, rational alternative principle, feminist principle, Hobbes to Hume, Kant, realism, and pragmatism. The prize is $500.
2024 de Gruyter Kant Lecture
Stephen Darwall (Yale College)
The de Gruyter Kant Lecture Collection is obtainable yearly at a divisional assembly on a rotating foundation, and the lectures are revealed within the Proceedings and Addresses. The 2024 Kant Lecture would be the last lecture on this collection. The prize consists of $1500 plus as much as $1500 in journey bills.
From the choice committee: The choice committee was impressed by the depth and originality of Stephen Darwall’s extremely influential engagement with Kant and Kantian themes, notably in ethics and meta-ethics – an engagement that has spanned greater than 5 many years. Professor Darwall’s many books on these and associated matters embody Neutral Purpose, The British Moralists and the Inner ‘Ought’, Philosophical Ethics, Welfare and Rational Care, The Second-Particular person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability, and Fashionable Ethical Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant. The Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale College and John Dewey Distinguished College Professor Emeritus on the College of Michigan, Professor Darwall has been acknowledged for his scholarly accomplishments with quite a few honors, together with election as a fellow of the Nationwide Academy of Arts and Sciences, election to the Presidency of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Affiliation, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis Fellowship.
2023 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize
Kristie Dotson (College of Michigan)
Susanna Siegel (Harvard College)
Awarded by the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) along side the American Philosophical Affiliation (APA), it’s offered to a pair of philosophers who maintain contrasting (not essentially opposing) views of an essential philosophical query that’s of present curiosity each to the sector and to an informed public viewers. The prize is $25,000 every. Additional particulars here.
2024 Romanell Lecture
Mark Johnston (Princeton College)
The Patrick Romanell Lecture is offered yearly at a divisional assembly of the APA on the subject of philosophical naturalism. The prize is $1200 plus journey bills of as much as $750.
2022 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
W. Clark Wolf (Marquette College)
This prize, funded by the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, was established in 2013 to acknowledge the scholarly work of adjunct professors. The prize is awarded for the very best revealed articles in philosophy written by adjunct professors.
Dr. Wolf gained the prize for his “Metaphysics Supervenes on Logic: The Role of the Logical Forms in Hegel’s ‘Replacement’ of Metaphysics” (Journal of the Historical past of Philosophy, 2021)
The APA’s press launch concerning the prizes might be discovered here.
