The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 22 prizes for the second half of 2025. 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 2025 APA Prizes: Fall Edition page. Congratulations to all!
- Early Career Researcher: Raphaël Millière (University of Oxford), “Normative Conflicts and Shallow AI Alignment,” Philosophical Studies (2025)
- Established Researcher: Mathias Risse (Harvard University), “Moral Status and Political Membership: Toward a Political Theory for Life 3.0,” Political Theory of the Digital Age (2023)
2025 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs: Philosophy Slam (University of Louisville)
2025 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Dana S. Scott (Carnegie Mellon University)
2026 K. Jon Barwise Prize: Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute)
2025 Book Prize: Daniel Smyth (Wesleyan University), Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching: Alexander Stehn (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
2026 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize: Nick Riggle (University of San Diego), “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing”
- Honorable Mention: James Young (University of Victoria), “The Myth of the Aesthetic”
- Eastern: Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Central: Jim Joyce (University of Michigan)
- Pacific: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego)
2025 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: Juan Carlos Gonzalez (Colorado College), “Living Uneconomically: The Aesthetics of Antonio Caso”
2025 Joseph B. Gittler Award: John M. Doris (Cornell University), Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford University Press, 2022)
2026 William James Prize: Anton Dolmatov (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Equal Opportunity for Future Citizens”
2026 Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize: Samuel Dishaw (University of Louvain), “Justifiability and the Other’s Point of View”
2026 Milton K. Munitz Prize: Patrick Cronin (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”
2025 Alvin Plantinga Prize: Brian Ballard (Loyola Marymount University), “Faith Because of Evil”
- Honorable Mention: Amber Griffioen (Independent Scholar), “Just Pretend? Religious Make-Believe as Theological Virtue”
2025 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest:
- Graham Parsons (Vassar College, Bard Prison Initiative), “There’s a Dangerous Misconception about the Military’s Obligations to the President,” New York Times (September 29, 2024)
- Rachel Robison-Greene (Utah State University), “The Temptations of Nostalgia,” 3 Quarks Daily (October 16, 2024)
- Joe Slater(University of Glasgow), James Humphries (University of Glasgow), and Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow), “ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!” Scientific American (July 17, 2024)
- Mary Townsend (St. John’s University), “What I Am Looking for in Empty Churches,” New York Times (December 28, 2024)
2025 Philip L. Quinn Prize: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)
2025 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize:
- Mahmoud Jalloh (California Institute of Technology), “Metaphysics and Convention in Dimensional Analysis, 1914–1917,” HOPOS (2024)
- Austen McDougal (New York University), “Amnesia and Punishment,” Ethics (2024)
2026 Sanders Graduate Student Awards:
- Eno Agolli (Rutgers University and Saul Kripke Center), “On Hats: A Counterpart Theory for the Third Reading”
- Hans Shenk (Temple University), “Revisiting Hornsby and Stanley: In Defense of Productive Practical Knowledge”
- Margot Witte (University of Michigan), “You Should Be Tortured: The Relational Value of Internal Conflict”
2026 Sanders Lecture: Catherine Z. Elgin (Harvard University), “Foregrounding the Background”
2025 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize: Linda Eggert (University of Oxford), “The Ethics of Defensive Harming and the Laws of War in the Shadow of Autonomous Weapons”
2026 Stephen J. White Prize: Pascal Brixel (Northwestern University), “Freedom First: On Coercion and Coercive Offers” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2025)
