The BSHP annually awards the Rogers Prize for the best article published in the BJHP, and the Beaney Prize for the best contribution to a broader conception of the philosophical canon. Both papers are made available open access.
The winner of the 2025 Rogers Prize is Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia) for her paper Du Châtelet’s causal idealism (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 33 (4), 816–837).
The winner of the 2025 Beaney Prize is Kurt Sylvan (University of Southampton) for his paper On the presentational unity of knowing in Nyāya (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 33(6), 1360–1387).
The Rogers Prize was established in 2011 in honour of the work of John Rogers (1938-2022), the founding editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, who retired that year after 18 years as editor. The Prize of £500, funded by the BSHP, is awarded each year for the best article published in the BJHP in the previous twelve months, judged by a committee composed of the Editor and Associate Editors of the journal. A list of previous winners can be found here.
The Michael Beaney Prize was established in January 2021 in recognition of the outstanding work of Michael Beaney as editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy between 2011 and 2020. The Beaney Prize is funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and awards £500 for the best paper in a given year that contributes to a broader conception of the philosophical canon, judged by a committee composed of the Editor and Associate Editors of the journal. All accepted research papers to the Journal will automatically be considered. A list of previous winners can be found here.
