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Lenhard Wins 2024 Covey Award
Johannes Lenhard (Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Covey Award by the board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP).
The Covey Award is given on an annual basis to “senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived.”
The IACAP board writes:
How does using a computer change the methodology and epistemology of the sciences? How does computational modeling transform the use of mathematical tools? Lenhard’s research aims at tackling these questions in a way that speaks to philosophers, historians, and scientists alike.
Lenhard is the author of Calculated Surprises. A Philosophy of Computer Simulation (Oxford University Press, 2019), and the forthcoming Cultures of Prediction. How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools (MIT Press, 2024), which he co-authored with the late Ann Johnson (Cornell University, University of South Carolina). You can learn more about his research here.
Lenhard will present the Covey Award Keynote Address at IACAP 2024 conference in Eugene, Oregon this July.
A list of previous winners of the Covey Award is here.
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UNRWA nominated for Nobel Peace Prize – but Israel freezes its bank accounts
Israeli move likely to mean even faster starvation for hundreds of thousands
UNRWA, the United Nations relief agency for Palestine, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The news comes as the assault on UNRWA’s funding intensifies.
A number of nations have, inexcusably, used Israel’s claims – that twelve of the agency’s more than 13,000 employees in Gaza took part in the 7 October raid – as a pretext for cutting off funding to UNRWA despite its central role in providing relief for the two million Palestinians in Gaza who are in starvation because of Israel’s blockade.
And Israeli bank Leumi has today locked all of UNRWA’s accounts, claiming UNRWA is unable to provide sufficient receipts to be able to prove no funds are going to ‘terrorists’. The UN has said it has no alternative mechanism to fund UNRWA if international donations are cut off and a number of nations – including Norway, home of the Nobel Peace Prize – have said they will continue to provide funds. But if UNRWA is unable to access them where it needs them, it will be even more severely hampered.
Norwegian Labour MP Asmund Aukrust told Dagbladet that he had nominated UNRWA,
for its long-term work to provide vital support to Palestine and the region in general.
Israel bombed the relief offices last week of Belgium, another country whose government has committed to funding UNRWA.
The nomination is an apt response to Israel’s smears against UNRWA and the collusion of some western nations, including the US and UK, in the genocide in Gaza. But it will not feed the starving – and despite being officially on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and ordered by the ICJ to protect Palestinian lives, the Israeli apartheid regime’s murderousness toward the millions of civilian Palestinians in Gaza appears to know no bounds.
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New Teaching Philosophy with Technology Prize
Oxford University Press and the American Philosophical Association (APA) have teamed up to launch the new “Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize.”
The prize “recognizes outstanding use of technology in the teaching of philosophy and philosophical pedagogy by philosophers at a junior career stage” who are also members of the APA.
The prize is $2000 and a certificate, plus funds for travel to the APA meeting at which the prize is awarded. There is also the possibility of a $500 honorable mention prize being awarded.
The contest has two stages: a nomination stage (self nominations are allowed), and then a stage for a selection of the contestants to submit more detailed information and materials.
The first deadline is February 25th.
More details are here.
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Alznauer Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Article Prize
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2023 best article prize to Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University).
Professor Alznauer won the prize, which recognizes the best article published in the journal in 2023, for his “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic,” published in the January 2023 issue.
Here’s the abstract of the article:
I argue that Hegel took concepts—not propositions, judgments, or spatiotemporal objects—as the primary truth-bearer in his logic and attempt to offer a defensible interpretation of what it means for an individual concept (or “thought-determination”) to be assessed as true or untrue. Along the way, I consider the shortcomings of several alternative interpretations of truth in Hegelian logic, paying particular attention to the now-common contention that a commitment to something like Frege’s context principle prevents Hegel from assessing concepts independently of the role that they play in judgments.
The prize comes with an award of $1500.
A list of previous winners of the award can be found here.
(via Deborah Boyle)
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Wodak Wins 2023 Sanders Political Philosophy Prize
Daniel Wodak (Penn) is the winner of the 2023 Political Philosophy Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.
Professor Wodak won the prize for his paper, “One Person, One Vote.”
Here’s a description of the paper from the prize committee, which is headed by Steven Wall (Arizona) and David Sobel (Syracuse) :
Daniel Wodak’s “One Person, One Vote” powerfully challenges a widely endorsed slogan in democratic societies, arguing that no current account of the one person, one vote requirement can explain why presumptively undemocratic practices, such as plural voting and vote dilution, violate it. A defensible account of the requirement, the paper provocatively concludes, pushes us toward radical conclusions, such as the possibility that all district-based voting systems including those used in the US House of Representative, Senate, and Electoral College, violate this minimal demand of political equality.
The prize is $5000 and publication of the paper in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.
You can learn more about the prize, including its past winners, here.
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Lederman Wins Sanders Epistemology Prize
Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) is the winner of the 2023 Epistemology Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.
Professor Lederman won the prize for his paper, “Of Marbles and Matchsticks“.
Here’s the abstract of the paper:
I present a new puzzle about choice under uncertainty for agents with preferences which are sensitive to multiple dimensions of outcomes in such a way as to be incomplete. In response, I develop a new theory of choice under uncertainty for incomplete preferences. I connect the puzzle to central questions in epistemology about the nature of rational requirements, and ask whether it shows that it is rationally required to have complete preferences.
The prize committee, headed by Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale), described the paper as a “masterful accomplishment” that “manages the difficult task of bridging the gap between formal and informal work on rationality and epistemology generally—presenting difficult material rigorously enough for precise formalization but doing so in a way that’s appealing even to the less formally inclined among us.”
The prize is $5000 and publication of the paper in Oxford Studies in Epistemology.
You can learn more about the prize, including its past winners, here.
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Dyzenhaus Wins SSHRC Impact Awards Gold Medal
David Dyzenhaus, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a Gold Medal Impact Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The SSHRC is Canada’s federal research funding agency for the humanities and social sciences. The gold medal is its highest honor, and is “given to individuals whose sustained leadership, dedication and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike.” Its recipient’s research “must have significantly advanced understanding in their respective fields of research in the social sciences and humanities. The exceptional quality and impact of the recipient’s research, and their ongoing efforts to share the results of this work, must have greatly enriched Canadian society, and contributed to intellectual, cultural, social and/or economic life in Canada and/or internationally.”
Professor Dyzenhaus received the award in recognition of his “profound impacts on the field of legal philosophy and on defending the rule of law globally.” You can learn more about his research here.
The award includes a CA$100,000 prize, which “must be used within one year for research, knowledge mobilization or other research-related activities,” and 10% of it “must be used to promote the impact and outcomes of the recipient’s research achievements.” You can read the SSHRC’s full award announcement here.
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