Russell Blackford (Newcastle) thinks so. If there were, I predict it will end up like the Nobel Prize for Literature: bizarre inclusions and exclusions that will tell us more about fashions and politics than about literature. Part of the difficulty will be in deciding what counts as philosophy. Look at Blackford's gloss:
Philosophy is the reason-based, intellectually rigorous, investigation of deep questions that have always caused puzzlement and anxiety: Is there a god or an afterlife? Do we possess free will? What is a good life for a human being? What is the nature of a just society? Philosophy challenges obfuscation and orthodoxies, and extends into examining the foundations of inquiry itself.
Are these "deep questions that have always caused puzzlement and anxiety"? Doubtful. And it's doubtful that all "good" philosophy "challenges obfuscation and orthodoxies": lots of important philosophy just rationalizes orthodoxy (and sometimes contributes to obfuscation).
Would the later Wittgenstein be eligible for a Nobel Prize in philosophy by Blackford's criteria? Not clear at all.
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