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BSHP Awards and Prizes, 2024-25

The Society is delighted to announce the award of the following prizes and scholarships for 2024-2025.

Graduate Essay Prize

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"

Beaney Prize

Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory), "Ottobah Cugoano on chattel slavery and the moral limitations of ius gentium"

Rogers Prize

Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä), "Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna"

Post doctoral Fellowship

I Xuan Chong, St Andrews: The Unity of Virtues in Plato’s Republic

Post-graduate Fellowship

Kassandra Dugi, Oxford: Ignorance and Ethics in Stoic and Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy

Pre-doctoral Scholarly Awards

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’

Scholarly Activity Grants

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