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Book Prize and Article Prize
Each year the JHP awards an Article Prize to an article published in the previous year’s volume, and a Book Prize to a book published in the previous year (according to the copyright date) which deserves special recognition for its contribution to the history of Western philosophy. In addition, the JHP awards a bi-annual Public Book prize to a book published in the previous two years (according to the copyright date) which deserves special recognition for making figures and/or concepts in the history of philosophy accessible to a wider audience. For both book Prizes, publishers (not authors) may nominate books by submitting a hard copy to the Book Review Editor for consideration. Prior to mailing their nominated book, publishers should send an email to pini@fordham.edu indicating their intention to nominate a book for the JHP Book Prize. Hard copies are to be sent to the following address: Giorgio PiniInquiries regarding the book prize should be sent to the JHP Book Review Editor at pini@fordham.edu. The nomination and book must be received by January 1 following the year for which the prize is to be awarded.
Past Book Prize Winners 2006 Eric Watkins. Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 2007 Michael Moriarty. Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 2008 Terence Irwin. The Development of Ethics. Volume 1: From Socrates to the Reformation. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 2009 Paul Russell. The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 2010 Lodi Nauta. In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Scholastic Philosophy. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA-London: Harvard University Press, 2009. 2011 Ursula Renz. Die Erklärbarkeit von Erfahrung. Subjektivität und Realismus in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes. Frankfurt-a-M.: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 2010. 2012 Peter R. Anstey. John Locke and Natural Philosophy. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 2013 Jan A. Aertsen. Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought from Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suarez. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 2014 Josef Stern. The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 2015 Frederick C. Beiser. The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism 1796–1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 2016 Donald C. Ainslie. Hume's True Scepticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 2017 Shelley Weinberg. Consciousness in Locke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 2018 Han Thomas Adriaenssen. Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 2019 Richard T. W. Arthur. Monads, Composition, and Force: Ariadnean Threads Through Leibniz’s Labyrinth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 2020 Sanford Shieh. Necessity Lost: Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy, vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Honorable mention for Ada Bronowski, The Stoics on Lekta: All There Is to Say. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2019. 2021 Karen Ng. Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 2022 Arthur Ripstein. Kant and the Law of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Honorable mention for Mara van der Lugt, Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 2023 Stephen Ogden. Averroes on Intellect: From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas's Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 2024 Melissa Lane. Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political. Princeton University Press, 2023. Honorable mention for Alison Stone, Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford University Press, 2023. Honorable mention for Thomas Holden, Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2023. Past Bi-Annual Book Prize Winners 2024–25 Emily A. Austin. Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life. Oxford University Press, 2023. Past Article Prize Winners 2005 Lorne Falkenstein, "Condillac's Paradox" (vol. 43: 403-35) 2006 Robert Stern, "Hegel's Doppelsatz: A Neutral Reading" (vol. 44: 235-66). 2007 Lucy Allais, "Kant's Idealism and the Secondary Quality Analogy" (vol. 45: 459-84) 2008 Richard Foley, "Plato's Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI" (vol. 46: 1-24) 2009 Justin Steinberg, "Spinoza on Civil Liberation" (vol. 47: 35-58) 2010 Suzanne Obdrzalek, "Moral Transformation and the Love of Beauty in Plato's Symposium" (vol. 48: 415-44) 2011 Mogens Laerke, "Spinoza's Cosmological Argument in the Ethics" (vol. 49: 439-62) 2012 Brady Bowman, "Spinozist Pantheism and the Truth of 'Sense Certainty': What the Eleusinian Mysteries Tell us about Hegel's Phenomenology" (vol. 50: 85-110) 2013 Andrew Roche, "Transcendental Idealism: A Proposal" (vol. 51: 589-615) 2014 Christiana Olfert, "Aristotle's Conception of Practical Truth" (vol. 52: 205-31) 2015 Thérèse Scarpelli Cory, "Rethinking Abstractionism: Aquinas's Intellectual Light and Some Arabic Sources" (vol. 53: 607-46) 2016 Jean-Luc Solère, "The Coherence of Bayle's Theory of Toleration" (vol. 54: 21-46) 2017 Clare Carlisle, "Spinoza's Acquiescentia" (vol. 55: 209-36) 2018 Dario Perinetti, "Hume at La Flèche: Skepticism and the French Connection" (vol. 56: 45-74) 2019 Jessica Moss and Whitney Schwab, "The Birth of Belief" (vol. 57: 1-32) Honorable Mention for Jon McGinnis, “A Continuation of Atomism: Shahrastānī on the Atom and Continuity” (vol. 57: 595-619) 2020 Jari Kaukua, "Avicenna's Outsourced Rationalism" (vol. 58: 215-40) 2021 Matthew D. Walker, "Aristotle's Eudemus and the Propaedeutic Use of the Dialogue Form" (vol. 59: 399-427) 2022 Karolina Hübner, "Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza's Philosophy" (vol. 60: 47-77) 2023 Mark Alznauer, "Untrue Concepts in Hegel's Logic" (vol. 61: 103-26) 2024 Douglas R. Campbell, "Irrigating Blood: Plato on the Circulatory System, the Cosmos, and Elemental Motion" (vol. 62: 519-41) Honorable Mention for Cheryl Misak, "Ryle's Debt to Pragmatism and Margaret Macdonald" (vol. 62: 639-56) |
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