Award

Lebowitz Prize goes to memory: De Brigard and Robins to face each other

The American Philosophical Association's prize picks its winners not for what they agree on but for what they do not. This year it goes to Felipe De Brigard and Sarah Robins — both philosophers of memory, and each with a different view of what memory is.

Berggruen essay competition closes on the question 'A New Axial Age?'

Entries for the Berggruen Institute's 100,000-dollar essay competition closed on 17 August. This year's subject is Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age: is humanity once again on the hinge of history? For the first time the competition also accepted works of fiction.

Hannah Arendt Prize goes to Lea Ypi: from totalitarian experience to political philosophy

The Albanian-born philosopher has been awarded this year's Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. The jury singled out the way she turns a childhood spent in socialist Albania into philosophical analysis, and the fresh urgency her account of freedom acquires as authoritarianism rises.

Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright

The BBVA Foundation's award in the Humanities has gone to Cartwright, who has spent fifty years working on causality, evidence and objectivity. The citation praises her for building a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science.

The autumn philosophy calendar: three dates in November

A congress on Timothy Williamson in Shanghai, the Kyoto Prize ceremony, and World Philosophy Day on 19 November. The international philosophy calendar for the autumn is set.

The 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy goes to Bas van Fraassen

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has honoured the Princeton philosopher known for 'constructive empiricism' in the philosophy of science. The prize is 600,000 Swedish kronor.

Appiah receives an honorary doctorate from Yale; his new book 'Captive Gods' is out

The New York University philosopher received the degree of Doctor of Humanities at Yale's 325th commencement. His new book, on religion and the birth of the social sciences, is published by Yale University Press.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

The 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy goes to Laurie Anderson

The Inamori Foundation has honoured the artist known for work joining electronic music, performance, poetry and film. The ceremony takes place in Japan on 10 November.

The 2026 Holberg Prize goes to the historian Lyndal Roper

Regius Professor of History at Oxford, Roper was honoured for her work on witch hunts, the German Peasants' War and Luther.