The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2023. 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 2023 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!
2023 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) (Affiliated with the University of Washington)
2023 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University)
2023 Book Prize: Una Stojnić (Princeton University), Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Honorable Mention: Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland, College Park), Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022)
- Honorable Mention: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Georgetown University), Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Eastern: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
- Central: Stephen Darwall (Yale University)
- Pacific: Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
2023 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Emmanuel Carrillo (University of Memphis), “Rethinking Extractivist Epistemologies: Mexican philosophy and philosophy ‘al otro lado’”
2023 Joseph B. Gittler Award: David Livingstone Smith (University of New England)
2024 William James Prize: Laura Soter (Duke University), “Rethinking Doxastic (In)Voluntarism”
2023 Alvin Plantinga Prize: Blake Hereth (University of Pennsylvania), “Self-Defense for Theists” (Journal of Analytic Theology, 2022)
- Honorable Mention: Lara Buchak (Princeton University), “Faith and Rational Deference to Authority” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming)
- Honorable Mention: Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton University), “Not Enough Evidence, God! Why Deliberation Rules out Evidentialism about Reasons for Belief”
2023 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
- Chris Bousquet (Syracuse University), “How Work Alienates Us from Our Social Lives” (APA Blog, 2022)
- Hannah Kim (University of Arizona), “Fitting Vaccine Conspiracies into a Philosophy of Fiction” (Los Angeles Times, 2022)
- Céline Leboeuf (Florida International University), “Body Positivity Is Fixated on Beauty – Here’s How to Fix That” (Psyche Magazine, 2022)
- Kate Manne (Cornell University), “Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s also Immoral” (New York Times, 2022)
2023 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
2023 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize: James Kinkaid (Bilkent University), “Phenomenology, Anti-realism, and the Knowability Paradox”
2024 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
- Rhys Borchert (University of Arizona), “Discrimination in Action”
- Brian Haas (University of Southern California), “Artifacts: Ontology as Easy as it Gets”
- Taylor Koles (University of Pittsburgh), “Aggregation, Contractualism, and the Procedural Separateness of Persons”
2024 Sanders Lecture: Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2023 Israel Scheffler Prize in Philosophy of Education: Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Zoë Burkholder (Montclair State University)
2023 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize: Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
2023 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Kristopher Phillips (Eastern Michigan University) and Rebecca Scott (Harper College)
