Awards Roundup: January, 2016

This post reflects awards recorded since the most recent publication of the APA’s Proceedings and Addresses.

APA Awards

Rethink: A Philosophy Community Outreach Program, Columbia University

Recipient of the 2015 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs.

Ben Bramble, Lund University

Awarded the 2015 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for “Whole-Life Welfarism.”

Martin Thibodeau, Saint Paul University

Awarded the 2015 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for “Hegel on Intention, Action, and Tragedy: Reflections on a Recent Debate.”

Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School

Awarded the 2015 Quinn Prize.

Non-APA Awards

Babette Babich, Fordham University

Appointed to the 2015–2016 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for “The Will to Power and Nietzsche’s Nachlass 1906–1968” at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Hugh Benson, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Received a 2015 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Plato’s Maieutic Method: Inquiry in Plato’s Theaetetus.”

Victor Caston, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Received a 2015 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “The Stoics on Mental Representation and Content.”

Michael Cholbi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Received a 2015 Faculty Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “A Philosophical Treatment of the Ethics of Grief.”

Jonardon Ganeri, New York University

Awarded the 2015 Infosys Prize in the humanities category for his outstanding scholarship and analysis of Indian and Greek philosophical traditions.

Verity Harte, Yale University

Appointed the George A. Saden Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University in November 2015.

Jeffrey Hause, Creighton University

Named Nebraska’s Professor of the Year for 2015.

Alan Love, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Received a $2.1 million international research grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund the “From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics” project (with Kenneth Waters).

Samantha Matherne, University of California, Santa Cruz

Received a 2015 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945).”

Sandra D. Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh

Elected a 2015 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Philip Pettit, Princeton University and Australian National University

Selected to give the 2019 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

Peter Railton, University of Michigan

Selected to give the 2018 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

Gina Schouten, Illinois State University

Received an Illinois State University Research Initiative Award.

Ted Sider, Rutgers University

Selected to give the 2016 John Locke Lectures, titled “The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science,” at the University of Oxford.

Michael Smith, Princeton University

Selected to give the 2017 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

Jason Stanley, Yale University

Named the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy in November 2015.

Chris Surprenant, University of New Orleans

Received a $32,350 grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to study the American approach to punishment and alternatives to incarceration.

Kenneth Waters, University of Calgary

Received a $2.1 million international research grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund the “From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics” project (with Alan Love).

Joan Weiner, Indiana University, Bloomington

Received a 2015 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “The Significance of Gottlob Frege’s Language for Science.”

Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Selected to give the 2020 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

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The Blog of the APA will feature a monthly roundup of awards won by APA members. The APA tracks awards won by members for publication in its Proceedings and Addresses.  Information about awards is compiled from two sources—members who notify the national office directly about their awards, and publications that list award recipients from time to time.

You are encouraged to notify the national office of any awards you have received, so that these may be included in a future roundup post and in the Proceedings and Addresses. Notices should be sent to Erin Shepherd at erinshep@udel.edu.

If you would like links in this post added or changed, please contact Jeremy Cushing at jeremycushing@apaonline.org. Notices of awards omitted from this list should be sent to Erin Shepherd at erinshep@udel.edu.