The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2024. 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 2024 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!
- Early Career Researcher: Brian Hedden (Australian National University), “On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness”
- Established Researcher: Deborah Hellman (University of Virginia), “Measuring Algorithmic Fairness,” Virginia Law Review (June 1, 2020)
2024 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies (Claremont McKenna College)
2024 Article Prize: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham), “The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation,” Inquiry (2023)
2025 Fred Berger Memorial Prize: Wendy Salkin (Stanford University), “Speaking for Others from the Bench,” Legal Theory 29, no. 2 (2023): 151–84
2024 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching:
- Brynn Welch (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- Melissa Jacquart (University of Cincinnati)
- Eastern: Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)
- Central: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago)
- Pacific: Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)
2024 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Stefan Terrazas (The Pennsylvania State University), “Ginés de Sepúlveda: Christian Empire, Virtue, and the Argument of Natural Servitude Among Indigenous Americans”
2024 Joseph B. Gittler Award: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound), The Philosophy of Envy (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
2025 William James Prize: Caroline Wall (Boston University), “Emersonian Moral Perfection as a Method of Ethics”
2024 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
- Eddy Keming Chen (University of California, San Diego), “The Preordained Quantum Universe,” Nature (December 2023)
- Kaitlyn Creasy (California State University, San Bernardino), “Loved, Yet Lonely,” Aeon (November 9, 2023)
- Iskra Fileva (University of Colorado Boulder), “Is It Hubris to Think We Matter?” APA Blog (September 19, 2023)
- Paul Schofield (Bates College), “Being Homeless Means Not Being Free – As Americans Are Supposed to Be,” The Conversation (November 20, 2023)
2024 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize:
- Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri–Saint Louis), “Responsibility’s Double-Binds: The Reactive Attitudes in Conditions of Oppression,” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2023)
- Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge), “What Is a Beautiful Experiment?” Erkenntnis (2023)
2025 Josiah Royce Lectureship: Peter Godfrey-Smith (University of Sydney)
2025 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
- Pol Pardini Gispert (Boston University), “Is Incoherence Within the Epistemic Normative Domain Undesirable?”
- Philip Groth (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Perception, Belief, and the Laws of Appearance”
- James Murphy (Indiana University), “Objectification as a Vice”
2025 Sanders Lecture: Kit Fine (New York University)
