News
(this news item posted February 9, 2009)
Professor Richard Healey is the winner of the highly prestigious 2008 Lakatos Award in the Philosophy of Science in acknowledgment of his book, *Gauging What's Real* (Oxford University Press, 2007).
The Award, endowed by the Latsis Foundation, is for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science in the form of a book published in English during the previous six years. It is named in memory of the late Professor Imre Lakatos of the London School of Economics and is administered an by the International Management Committee formally chaired by the Director of the London School of Economics, and consisting of distinguished faculty from various prominent institutions. The value of the Award is 10,000 British pounds and includes an invitation to the recipient to deliver a public lecture at the London School of Economics.
A word about Professor Healey's work: Within classical and quantum physics, gauge theories use mathematical structures admitting of symmetry transformations to successfully represent the fundamental forces of nature. In this book, Professor Healey develops and defends a view of what the success of gauge theories' representations has to teach us about the nature of our world.
For the article posted by London School for Economics and Political Science, click here.
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Professor Connie Rosati had two articles accepted for publication: “Relational Good and the Multiplicity Problem,” Philosophical Issues 19 (Metaethics) (forthcoming) and “Is there a ‘Higher Law’? Does it Matter?” Pepperdine Law Review (forthcoming).
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Jerry Gaus, the James E. Rogers Professor of
Philosophy, has been awarded the Gregory Kavka Prize in Political
Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association.
The Kavka award is among the highest distinctions within the important
area of Political Philosophy. The award memorializes the late Professor
Gregory Kavka and is co-sponsored by the University of California -
Irvine, where Professor Kavka was a distinguished member of the Department
of Philosophy.
Jerry's selection as the Kavka Prize recipient especially honors the
signficance of his "On Justifying the Moral Rights of the Moderns: a Case
of Old Wine in New Bottles" (Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 24,
Issue 01, Jan 2007, pp 84-119.)
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