The Society is delighted to announce the award of the following prizes and scholarships for 2024-2025.
Winner: Eric Sheng (University of Oxford), "Locke’s Epistemic Individualism Revisited: Observation and the Domain of Testimony"
Runner up: Darcy Forster (University of Sydney), "Two Accounts of Intellectual Intuition in Schelling's Early Philosophy"
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory), "Ottobah Cugoano on chattel slavery and the moral limitations of ius gentium"
Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä), "Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna"
I Xuan Chong, St Andrews: The Unity of Virtues in Plato’s Republic
Kassandra Dugi, Oxford: Ignorance and Ethics in Stoic and Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy
Roisin Gibbons, Exeter/Durham: For a conference at Cambridge on the Wartime Quartet.
Clara Costa, Universita della Svitzzera Italiana: To co-present a conference paper on ‘Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragment 161 Rose: A New Philosophical and Philological Perspective’
Jonathan Head, Keele: to visit Leicester and Rutland Record Office to look at a manuscript by John Finch
Michaela Manson, Simon Fraser: to visit the Pepys Library to look for marginalia in books from Astell’s personal collection
Elizabeth Thorson, Durham: to visit the Bodleian to look at a manuscript by Locke