The Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA), at its Fall 2022 meeting, elected R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford) as its next Chair. The term of current Board Chair Dominic McIver Lopes, concludes at the end of this June, at which point Dr. Anderson will take up the position. Dr. Anderson, the APA notes in a press release, was member-at-large of the APA board of officers from 2018 to 2021; he has also served on the APA finance committee, the Pacific Division nominating committee, and the Pacific Division program committee. Anderson was executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society (NANS) from 2015 to 2021, and chair of the NANS program committee from 2004 to 2021; a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Fulbright Program screening committees; and Senior Association Dean for the Humanities and Arts at Stanford University. He is a member of the American Society of Aesthetics and the North American Kant Society, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Nietzsche-Studien, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Dr.
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced which projects will be funded during the 2022-23 academic year by its Diversity and Inclusiveness Grant Program and its Small Grant Program. The APA’s Diversity and Inclusiveness Grant Program each year has up to $20,000 to fund “one or two projects aiming to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy.” This year, the grant-funded projects are: The Lavender Library: Institutionalizing Access to Queer Theory, Courses and Speakers at a Regional Comprehensive University in the South ($10,000) According to the Public Religion Research Institute, Arkansans are the least supportive of measures to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination compared to all states (3/26/19).
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 14 of its prizes. Below are the prizes and their winners (and when available, comments from the judges): 2022 Article Prize — for the best, published article by a younger scholar in the previous two years ($2000) Sarah Moss (University of Michigan), “Pragmatic Encroachment and Legal Proof” (Philosophical Issues, 2021) From the selection committee: In “Pragmatic Encroachment and Legal Proof” Sarah Moss argues that the issue of pragmatic encroachment, or the degree to which one’s belief constitutes knowledge given the consequences of acting upon that belief, raises a fundamental problem regarding American trial procedure. If pragmatic factors can matter to knowledge possession the question of whether the standard of legal proof, i.e. knowledge, is met by a particular jury in a criminal trial may depend, crucially, on what is at stake. Here, Moss contends, lies the problem. For relevant stakes in criminal trials include the consequences to be faced by the defendant if found guilty—yet this information is typically withheld from jurors in criminal trials.