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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. 2025 Julia Jorati. Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2024 Honorable mention for Raphaële Andrault, Le Fer ou le Feu. Penser la douleur après Descartes. Classiques Garnier, 2024. 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) 2025 Joe Stratmann, "Autonomy Without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral Laws" (vol. 63: 97-120) |
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