The American Philosophical Association (APA) just lately introduced the winners of 9 awards.
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The prizes and their winners are:
Oron Shagrir (Hebrew College of Jerusalem)
The Barwise Prize is awarded for important and sustained contributions to areas related to philosophy and computing by an APA member. The Prize consists of a plaque awarded at an APA divisional assembly and a keynote deal with at a computing and philosophy convention in addition to a symposium at one of many divisional APA conferences.
Japanese: Naomi Scheman (College of Minnesota)
Central: Robert Pippin (College of Chicago)
The Dewey Lectures are annual lectures, one at every divisional assembly of the APA (Japanese, Central, and Pacific), given by a outstanding 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 award contains $1000 and publication of the lectures within the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Affiliation.
2024 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize
Gilbert Plumer (Legislation Faculty Admission Council)
The Journal of Value Inquiry Prize (previously the Rockefeller Prize) is awarded each different 12 months for one of the best unpublished, article-length work in philosophy by a non-academically affiliated thinker. The prize contains $1000 and publication within the Journal of Worth Inquiry.
Plumer was awarded the prize for “When Work Argue”. From the choice committee: An intriguing, effectively structured and humble however actually persuasive article. Plumer successfully makes use of portray to indicate that visible artwork could make arguments and thus be cognitively useful and applies literary fictions to non-verbal portray to search out similarities between argumentative fiction and argumentative portray.
2024 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize
Kate Manne (Cornell College) and David Livingstone Smith (College of New England)
The Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution is awarded 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 winners current their views and interact in a dialogue at an annual Lebowitz symposium, held throughout an APA divisional assembly, and in an episode of the podcast Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa. The prize, co-sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, contains $25,000 for every awardee and the chance for the lectures to be printed within the Journal of the American Philosophical Affiliation.
Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke Faculty)
The Anthony J. Lisska Prize, sponsored by Denison College in partnership with the APA, is awarded in recognition of exemplary contributions to the scholarly mission of small liberal arts faculties by way of accomplishment in each philosophical analysis and pedagogical achievement. The prize contains $1000 and a commemorative plaque.
2024 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize
Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue College)
Honorable Point out: Matthew Watts (College of Miami)
The Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize, sponsored by Oxford College Press, acknowledges excellent use of expertise within the educating of philosophy and philosophical pedagogy by philosophers at a junior profession stage. The prizes embrace a certificates and $2000 for the winner ($500 for an honorable point out).
From the choice committee: Javier Gomez-Lavin is a pioneer in using gaming and digital actuality to show philosophy. His standard course at Purdue College, Introduction to Philosophy by way of Video Video games, blends conventional philosophy with trendy expertise.
Manuel Vargas (College of California, San Diego)
The Alvin Plantinga Prize, funded by the Bossenbroek Household Basis, acknowledges authentic essays that have interaction philosophical points about or in substantial methods associated to theism. The prize is $10,000.
From the choice committee: In reflecting on the abating affect of Christianity and the disappearance of its downstream social items—amongst that are to be discovered greater marriage charges, improved morality, and superior psychological well being outcomes—Vargas presents an authentic and recent method to questions of secularization and disenchantment in as we speak’s world. His essay is an exemplary occasion of how philosophy can have interaction with spiritual issues in a secular world whereas sustaining each epistemological readability and existential depth.
Sharon Street (New York 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, and publication of the lecture within the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Affiliation.
From the choice committee: Sharon Road is well-known for a naturalistic venture in metaethics that many individuals discover extraordinarily interesting but few have managed to set rigorously to paper: the challenges that evolutionary biology poses to ethical realism, as articulated in her agenda-setting evolutionary debunking argument. She can be a significant contributor to naturalism in metaethics by way of her growth of a model of Humean constructivism, whereas her newer work goes in new instructions, drawing from traditions in Buddhist meditation follow.
2025 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture
Linda Zagzebski (College of Oklahoma)
The Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture honors substantial achievement in epistemology. The winner presents the lecture, meant to be accessible to a broad philosophical viewers, at an APA divisional assembly. The prize contains $1500, publication of the lecture within the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Affiliation, in addition to a collection of books by Sosa and printed by Wiley-Blackwell.
From the choice committee: Over the course of her almost five-decade profession, Linda Zagzebski has persistently performed a central function within the growth of analytic epistemology, each in the US and world wide. Her seminal contributions to advantage epistemology, the epistemology of understanding, and the worth downside within the principle of data (amongst different areas) have set the agenda for a era of epistemologists.
