The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 15 prizes for the second half of 2020. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit this web page.
Make sure to read to the end of this announcement for details on a new APA prize, and the call for submissions.
- 2020 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Philosophy for Children Texas (P4C Texas) and The Aggie School of Athens Philosophy Camp for Teens at Texas A&M University
- 2020 Article Prize: C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah), “Games and the Art of Agency”
- 2021 Fred Berger Memorial Prize: Jeffrey Howard (University College London), “Dangerous Speech”
- 2021 Dewey Lectures:
- Eastern Division: Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
- Central Division: Robin Smith (Texas A&M University)
- Pacific Division: Naomi Zack (Lehman College, CUNY)
- 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Rafael Vizcaíno (DePaul University), “Which Secular Grounds? The Atheism of Liberation Philosophy”
- 2020 Joseph B. Gittler Award: Christian List (LMU Munich), Why Free Will Is Real
- 2021 Jean Hampton Prize: Nathan Hauthaler (Stanford University), “For No Particular Reason”
- 2021 William James Prize: Heather Spradley (Harvard University), “Inquiring While Believing”
- 2020 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize: Matthew Bennett, “Demoralising Trust”
- 2020 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
- Jonathan Ellis (UC Santa Cruz) and Francesca Hovagimian (State of Colorado), “Are School Debate Competitions Bad for Our Political Discourse?”
- Carol Hay (University of Massachusetts Lowell), “Who Counts As a Woman?”
- C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah) and Bekka Williams (Minnesota State University Mankato), “Why We Call Things ‘Porn’”
- Regina Rini (New York University), “Deepfakes are coming. We can no longer believe what we see.”
- Yolonda Wilson (Saint Louis University), “For Black Shooting Victims, Sometimes Anger (Not Forgiveness) Is the Best Response”
- 2020 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University)
- 2020 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize: Robert Hartman, “Moral Luck and the Unfairness of Morality”
- 2020 Sanders Book Prize: Sarah Moss (University of Michigan), Probabilistic Knowledge
- 2021 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
- Lucas Battich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), “Opening up the Openness of Joint Attention”
- Kathleen Connelly (University of California, San Diego), “Blame and Patronizing”
- Madeleine Ransom (University of British Columbia), “Perceptual Learning of High-Level Properties”
- 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching:
- Russell Marcus (Hamilton College)
- Eduardo Villanueva (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
Alvin Plantinga Prize
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the establishment of a new prize in honor of Alvin Plantinga, John A. O’Brien Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a past president of the APA Central Division. The Alvin Plantinga Prize is funded through the generosity of the Bossenbroek Family Foundation. The prize will recognize original essays that engage philosophical issues about or in substantial ways related to theism.
One prize of $10,000 and up to two honorable mention prizes of $5,000 each will be awarded annually. Submissions must be in English, within the range of 6,000–10,000 words. Submissions will be assessed according to canons of excellence for which Alvin Plantinga is eminent: clarity, rigor, and originality.
We now invite submissions for the inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize. The submission deadline is March 31, 2021.
For more information about the prize, and to submit an essay, visit the Alvin Plantinga Prize page.
