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CPA Past Book Prize Winners

The Canadian Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2022 CPA Book Prize Laureates

Moreau, Sophia (University of Toronto) — Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination. Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780190927301

Panaccio, Claude (UQAM) — Récit et reconstruction : Les fondements de la méthode en histoire de la philosophies, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2019. ISBN: 9782711628759

The CPA would like to thank the members of the jury and its sponsors, Cambridge University Press and Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

CPA Book Prize Winners through the Years

2000

Sponsors:        Nicholas Hoare Ltd and Renaud-Bray Ltée

Winners

Arthur Ripstein,  Equality, Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 1999

Claude Panaccio,  Le discours intérieur : de Platon à Ockham (Paris: Éditions du Seuil) 1999

Henry Harris, Hegel’s Ladder (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co) 1997

 

2003

Sponsor:      Broadview Press

Winners

Joseph Heath,  Communicative Action and Rational Choice (Cambridge: MIT Press) 2001

Richard Bodéüs,  Aristote [Catégories]  (Paris: Les Belles Lettres) 2001

Fred Wilson, The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 1999

Honourable Mentions

Jean-Marc Narbonne, Hénologie, Ontologie et Ereignis  (Paris: Les Belles Lettres) 2001

Alan Richardson, Carnap’s Construction of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 1998

Kok-Chor Tan, Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press) 1998

 

2005

Sponsor:      Broadview Press

Winners

Christine Overall, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press) 2003

John Russon, Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life (Albany: State University of New York) 2003

Ronald de Sousa, Évolution et rationalité (Paris: Presses universitaires de France) 2004

Honourable Mentions

Roger Shiner, Freedom of Commercial Expression (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2003

Jason Holt, Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness (Peterborough: Broadview Press) 2003

Sébastien Charles, Berkeley au siècle des Lumières (Paris: Vrin) 2003

 

2007

Sponsors:       Broadview Press, Les Presses de l’Université Laval and La chaire "La philosophie dans le monde actuel"

Winners

Claude Panaccio, Ockham on Concepts (Ashgate) 2004

Kenneth Dorter, The Transformation of Plato’s  ‘Republic’ (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers) 2006

Louis Valcke, Pic de la Mirandole. Un itinéraire philosophique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres) 2005

Honourable Mentions

Ralph Pred,  Onflow:  Dynamics of Consciousness and Experience (Cambridge: MIT Press) 2005

Paul Thagard, Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition (Cambridge: MIT Press) 2006

Rebecca Kukla, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers’ Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield             Publishers) 2005

Dale Turner, This Is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 2006

Syliane Malinowski-Charles, Affects et conscience chez Spinoza. L’automatisme dans le progrès éthique (Georg Olms) 2004

Michel Seymour,  L’institution du langage (Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal) 2005

 

2009

Sponsors:       Les Presses de l’Université Laval and La chaire "La philosophie dans le monde actuel"

Winners

Anjan Chakravartty, A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable (Cambridge           University Press) 2007

Michel Seymour,  De la tolérance à la reconnaissance (Montréal: Boréal) 2008

Catherine Wilson, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (Oxford University Press) 2008

Honourable Mentions

Jeffrey Reid,  L’anti-romantique : Hegel contre le romantisme ironique (Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval) 2007

John Schellenberg, The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) 2007

Martin Thibodeau, La théorie esthétique d’Adorno (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes) 2008

Evan Thompson, Mind in Life (Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press) 2007

Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason (New York: Cambridge University Press) 2007

Bas C. Van Fraassen, Scientific Representation (New York: Oxford University Press) 2008

 

2011

Sponsors:       Cambridge University Press and Les Presses de l’Université Laval

Winners

Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Cambridge, USA: Harvard    University Press) 2009

Avery Kolers, Land, Conflict, and Justice: A Political Theory of Territory (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge     University Press) 2009

Honourable Mentions

David Ciavatta,  Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel’s Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press) 2009

Joseph Heath, Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint (New York: Oxford University Press) 2008

John Schellenberg, The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) 2009

Stephen Yablo, Thoughts: Philosophical Papers, volume 1 (New York: Oxford University Press) 2008

 

2013

Sponsors:       Cambridge University Press and Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Winners

Thomas de Koninck, Questions Ultimes (Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press)

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2011

Wayne Sumner, Assisted Death: a Study in Ethics and Law (New York: Oxford University Press) 2011

Kristin Andrews, Do Apes Read Minds? Toward a New Folk Psychology (Cambridge: MIT Press)

 

One English prize was split between W. Sumner and K. Andrews; the judges deemed both books of equal quality

 

2015

Sponsors:       Cambridge University Press and Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Winners

Sophie-Jan Arrien, L’inquiétude de la pensée : l’herméneutique de la vie du jeune Heidegger (1919 – 1923) (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France) 2014

Bruce Gilbert, The Vitality of Contradiction: Hegel, Politics, and the Dialectic of Liberal-Capitalism (Montreal and Kingston: McGill – Queen’s University Press) 2013

Diana Raffman, Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language (New York: Oxford University Press) 2014

 

2017

Sponsors:       Cambridge University Press and Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Margaret Moore (Queen's) – A Political Theory of Territory. Oxford University Press 2015

Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval) – Antiquité critique et modernité. Les Belles Lettres 2016

Avery Kolers (Louisville) – A Moral Theory of Solidarity. Oxford University Press 2016

 

2019

Seymour, Michel et Jérome Gosselin-Tapp (Université de Montréal) — La nation pluraliste: Repenser la diversité religieuse au Québec.  Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2018

Abizadeh, Arash (McGill) — Hobbes and the Two Face of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2018.