The APA is pleased to announce that Nathan Hauthaler (Stanford University) has been awarded the 2021 Jean Hampton Prize for his paper, “For No Particular Reason.”
The Jean Hampton Prize is awarded biennially to a philosopher at a junior career stage whose paper is accepted for the Pacific Division meeting. The paper must be in some area of philosophy in which Professor Hampton worked, including social and political philosophy, foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of law, rational choice theory, feminist theory, Hobbes to Hume, Kant, realism, and pragmatism.
Nathan Hauthaler works primarily on the nature of agency and action — especially intentional action and intention, practical thought and knowledge, and practical capacity and habitus — which he investigates from systematic and historical vantage points, including the philosophy of action, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; the history of analytic philosophy (especially Anscombe); classical Greek philosophy (especially Aristotle); and classical Chinese philosophy.
He received his PhD in Philosophy from Stanford in 2020, having previously received a Mag. Phil. in Philosophy and a Mag. Iur. in Law from Graz University, and an MPhilStud in Philosophy from the University of London, Birkbeck. He is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Global Studies at Duke University, and the Barry Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works on the Anscombe Archives.
