The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins University) has been selected by the APA committee on international cooperation as the winner of the 2020 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship.
The David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship, in the amount of $10,000, is for the support and dissemination of research in the field of ethics, especially as they related to the interests of David Baumgardt, including the examination and comparison of types of morality associated with strong cultural and religious traditions, such as Judaism and Christianity. The Baumgardt Fellow will have the opportunity to present their work as a series of two or three public lectures, to be known as the Baumgardt Memorial Lectures.
Anat Biletzki, chair of the APA committee on international cooperation, says, “Yonover presented a strong application, both on its merits and in terms of fit with the criteria. It is closely connected to Baumgardt, and well-aligned with the prize mandate and with the description of the fellowship. It is expertly articulated and the recommendation letters are strong. It is an impressive application, thoroughly worked out and detailing Yonover’s depth of knowledge in regard to the history of German and Jewish philosophy. It would also be lovely to have the lectures at the Leo Baeck Institute where the Baumgardt Collection resides.”
Jason Maurice Yonover is a historian of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in the German and Jewish traditions, with a particular interest in moral and political philosophy. He is working on two projects: the first concerns freedom and right in Hegel and Spinoza, and the second traces the legacy of early modern naturalism in modern German thought. His work has been published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and the Goethe Yearbook, and is forthcoming in Fichte-Studien, the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, and the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition.
