Awards Roundup: Spring 2017
APA Awards
Edward Zalta, Stanford University
Winner of the 2016 Barwise Prize
Joshua Glasgow, Sonoma State University
Winner of the 2017 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship
Marina Folescu, University of Missouri
Winner...
Board of the APA issues statement on Harassment, Bullying, and Intimidation of Philosophers
In recent weeks, the philosophical community has seen several instances of philosophers being targeted for harassment, and even threatened with violence, through social media...
APA Newsletters, Spring 2017 Edition – Part One
The latest edition of the APA newsletters was posted online recently. In case you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, I’m...
Rolf-Peter Horstmann to Deliver the 2017–18 De Gruyter Kant Lecture
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt University of Berlin) will deliver the 2017–2018 Walter De Gruyter Stiftung...
AHA and APA Receive Joint Mellon Grant, “Extending the Reach of Scholarly Society Work...
The American Historical Association (AHA) and the American Philosophical Association (APA) are pleased to announce the receipt of an $80,000 grant from the Andrew...
APA Statement on Valuing Public Philosophy
The APA board of officers has approved the following statement, which was proposed by the committee on public philosophy and the committee on the...
Prominent Philosophers Cartwright and Sober Win 2017 Lebowitz Prize
Prominent scholars in philosophy Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at UC San Diego and the University of Durham, and Elliott Sober, Hans Reichenbach and...
Joshua Glasgow Wins the 2017 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Joshua Glasgow (Sonoma State University) has been selected by the APA committee on international...
Inside the APA: An Update on the Journal of the APA
by Amy Ferrer, John Heil, and Sally Hoffmann
Most learned societies in the US have had journals for decades, but not the APA! Though the...
Committee-Sponsored Sessions at the APA 2017 Pacific Division Meeting
The 2017 Pacific Division Meeting will take place April 12–15 at the Westin Seattle. For those able to attend the meeting, the sessions sponsored...