Here are the winning papers, followed by a list of the editors and the nominating editors. I've inserted institutional affiliations. As usual, I worry that history of philospohy and value theory continue to be under-represented, and more formal and technical work overrepresented in the final choices (as they are on the nominating board), though all of these (or at least all of those I'm familiar with) are certainly very fine pieces of work. Congratulations to those whose work was recognized! (And special congratulations to BU as the only department with two faculty represented this year!)
Helen Beebee (Manchester), "Necessary Connections and the Problem of Induction,” Noûs, 45 (2011), 504-527.
Campbell Brown (Edinburgh), "Consequentialize This,” Ethics 121 (2011), 749-771.
John F. Horty (Maryland), "Rules and Reasons in the Theory of Precedent,” Legal Theory,March 17 (2011), 1-33.
Paul Katsafanas (BU), “The Concept of Unified Agency in Nietzsche, Plato, and Schiller,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2011), 87-113.
David Liebesman (BU), “Simple Generics,” Noûs 45 (2011), 409-442.
Wayne C. Myrvold (Western Ontario), "Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: A Maxwellian View," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (2011), 237-243.
Samir Okasha (Bristol), "Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn vs. Arrow," Mind 120 (2011), 83-115.
Joshua Schechter (Brown), "Rational self-doubt and the failure of closure,” Philosophical Studies, September 30 2011.
Mark Schroeder (USC), "Ought, Agents, and Actions.” Philosophical Review 120 (2011), 1-41.
Jason Turner (Leeds), “Ontological Nihilism,” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics vol. 6, ed. Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman, Oxford University Press 2011, pp. 2-54.
Editors: Patrick Grim, Chloe Armstrong, Billy Dunaway & Robin Zheng
Nominating
Editors: Rachel Barney, J.C. Beall, Ned Block, Ben Bradley, Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Andrew Chignell, David Christensen, Gregory Currie, David Danks, Keith DeRose, Cian Dorr, Lisa Downing, Julia Driver, Adam Elga, Branden Fitelson, Owen Flanagan, Marilyn Friedman, Stacie Friend, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Alan Hajek, Ned Hall, Elizabeth Harman, Gary Hatfield, Allen Hazen, Benj Hellie, Christopher Hitchcock, Des Hogan, Brad Inwood, Simon Keller, Tom Kelly, Josh Knobe, Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Marc Lange, Brian Leiter, Neil Levy, Martin Lin, Peter Ludlow, Ishani Maitra, Shaun Nichols, Paul Noordhof, Derk Pereboom, Jim Pryor, Greg Restall, Geoff Sayre-McCord, Richard Scheines, Mark Schroeder, Laura Schroeter, Ted Sider, Michael Slote, Scott Soames, Roy Sorensen, Peter Spirtes, Jason Stanley, Johan van Benthem, Mark van Roojen, Achille Varzi, Peter Vranas, Ted Warfield,
Eric Watkins, Sam Wheeler, Jim Woodward, Gideon Yaffe.
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