The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 14 prizes for the second half of 2022. 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 the 2022 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!
2022 Article Prize: Sarah Moss (University of Michigan), “Pragmatic Encroachment and Legal Proof” (Philosophical Issues, 2021)
2022 K. Jon Barwise Prize: John Etchemendy (Stanford University)
2023 Fred Berger Memorial Prize: John Oberdiek (Rutgers University School of Law), “The Wrong in Negligence” (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021)
2023 de Gruyter Kant Lecture: Hannah Ginsborg (UC Berkeley)
- Eastern: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
- Central: Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University)
- Pacific: Ann Garry (California State University, Los Angeles)
2022 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Paula Landerreche Cardillo (DePaul University), “The Theater of Knowledge at the Zero-Point as a Colonial Enterprise: Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Engagement with Kant”
- Honorable Mention:Juan Garcia Torres (Wingate University), “Decolonizing the Mind and Authentic Self-Creation a la Jorge Portilla”
- Honorable Mention:Saraliza Anzaldua (University of California-Los Angeles), “Mexica Monism and Daoist Ethics: Trauma Recovery in Anzaldua’s Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Body”
2023 William James Prize: Hannah Widmaier (UCLA), “Civic Obligations Among Victims of Injustice: On Shelby’s Idea of Reciprocity”
2022 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
- Max Khan Hayward (The University of Sheffield), “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! No, Really.” (The Atlantic, 2021)
- Milena Ivanova (The University of Cambridge), “The Beautiful Experiment” (Aeon, 2021)
- A. Minh Nguyen (Florida Gulf Coast University), “When Your Daughter Is Told ‘Your Face Is Not American’” (The News-Press, 2021)
- Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College) and Jonathan Dudley (Johns Hopkins), “Why the case against abortion is weak, ethically speaking” (Salon, 2021)
- Lisa Forsberg(Oxford University)and Anthony Skelton (University of Western Ontario), “3 reasons for making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for children ” (The Conversation, 2021)
2022 Alvin Plantinga Prize: David Vander Laan (Westmont College), “Satisfaction in the End without End” (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, 2022)
- Honorable Mention: Yoaav Isaacs (Baylor University), John Hawthorne (University of Southern California and Australian Catholic University), and Jeffrey Sanford Russell (University of Southern California), “Multiple Universes and Self-Locating Evidence” (Philosophical Review, 2022)
2022 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Center)
2023 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
2023 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
- Michael Luoma (Queen’s University), “Territorial rights and restitution: the limits of forwards—and backwards—looking theories”
- Ryan Miller (University of Geneva), “Artifacts: Ontology as Easy as it Gets”
- Sara Purinton (The University of Pennsylvania), “Disability and Diachronic Agency: Fluctuating Abilities, Fluctuating Values”
2023 Sanders Lecture: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
2022 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Alida Liberman (Southern Methodist University)
