The Canadian Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2019 CPA Biennial Book Prize Laureates
Michel Seymour et Jérome Gosselin-Tapp, La nation pluraliste: Repenser la diversité religieuse au Québec (Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Arash Abizadeh, Hobbes and the Two Face of Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Many congratulations to these authors, and to all whose books were nominated!
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