The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that David Christensen (Brown University) will deliver the inaugural Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture at the 2021 Eastern Division meeting in New York City.
The Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture, in the amount of $1,500, is awarded biennially to honor substantial achievement in epistemology.
The chair of the selection committee said, “David Christensen has made important contributions to several areas in epistemology and philosophy of science: epistemic disagreement, confirmation theory, epistemic justification and evidence, theories of rationality, and the role of logic for a theory of rationality. In all these areas, his work is crucial and innovative to ongoing debates.”
David Christensen is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He did his undergraduate work at Hampshire College, and graduate work at UCLA. He taught at the University of Vermont for 20 years before moving to Brown, where he was both honored and intimidated by being assigned to Ernest Sosa’s former office. His main philosophical interests are in epistemology (formal and casual).
