2025 CPA Prize Winners Announced
The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 academic prizes, recognizing excellence in philosophical scholarship across multiple categories. The prize recipients will be formally recognized at the Congress in Toronto on 2 June 2025, and all winners will appear on the Congress program.
CPA Student Essay Prize
Dialogue, the bilingual journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association, awards up to three prizes each year to papers submitted by students for the Annual Congress. Papers submitted by students are double-blind refereed. One prize is reserved for each official language.
Cameron Yetman (University of Toronto)
"Text as a Source of Perceptual Signal" (Philosophy of Cognitive Science)
Alexander Drusda (University of Toronto)
"The Moral Standing of Non-Human Animals in the Early Marx" (History of Philosophy)
Nicolas Lacroix (Université de Montréal)
"Démocratie insurgeante et mouvements sociaux. Pour une conception active et structurelle de la conflictualité politique" (Social and Political Philosophy)
CPA Faculty Essay Prizes
The CPA offers two essay prizes for faculty papers submitted to our annual conference: the Non-tenured Professor, Lecturer, Sessional Essay Prize and the Tenured Professor Essay Prize.
Non-tenured Professor, Lecturer, Sessional Essay Prize
Tiina Rosenqvist (Dartmouth College)
"Engineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice" (Philosophy of Science)
Tenured Professor Essay Prize
Christopher Lowry (University of Waterloo)
"A General Conception of Justice" (Social and Political Philosophy)
FHSS Congress Graduate Merit Awards (CGMA)
The Congress Graduate Merit Award, worth $500 each, facilitates the participation of deserving graduate students in Congress activities. Recipients are selected based on nominations from the CPA committee.
Nicolas Lacroix (Université de Montréal)
"Démocratie insurgeante et mouvements sociaux. Pour une conception active et structurelle de la conflictualité politique" (Social and Political Philosophy)
Sylvain Bédard (Université de Sherbrooke)
"Quand les émotions éclairent la démocratie : L'épistémologie sentimentaliste à l'épreuve de la délibération" (Social and Political Philosophy)
Cameron Yetman (University of Toronto)
"Text as a Source of Perceptual Signal" (Philosophy of Cognitive Science)
Marco Tang (University of Waterloo)
"Should the Concept of Adaptive Preferences Play a Role in Clinical Care?" (Applied Ethics)
Khushi Rattan (York University)
"The Moral Distinctiveness of Political Hate Speech" (Social and Political Philosophy)
Alexis Morin-Martel (McGill University)
"Trust as a Respectful Attitude" (Moral Psychology)
Weiwei Mo (Rice University)
"On Sartre's Person as a Responsible Agent" (Contemporary European Philosophy)
Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto)
"There Is No Special Problem of Epistemic Justification for Scientific Measurement" (Epistemology)
Sara Varón Echeverri (Western University)
"Testimonial Smothering After an Armed Conflict" (Social and Political Philosophy)
Alexander Drusda (University of Toronto)
"The Moral Standing of Non-Human Animals in the Early Marx" (History of Philosophy)
The Canadian Philosophical Association congratulates all prize winners for their outstanding contributions to philosophical scholarship. These awards recognize the breadth and excellence of philosophical research conducted across Canada and internationally.
For information about past prize winners, visit: acpcpa.ca/cpages/prizes
About the Canadian Philosophical Association
The Canadian Philosophical Association is the national organization for professional philosophers in Canada, dedicated to promoting excellence in philosophical research, teaching, and public engagement.
Contact:
Brenda Sanderson
Executive Director
E: bsanderson@acpcpa.ca