Prizes and Awards

Carus Lectures

The Carus Lectures, funded by Open Court Publishing Company, are a series of three lectures presented over three consecutive days in plenary sessions at a Divisional meeting of the APA.

Summary

Process: The Carus Lecturer is selected by the APA's Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research. The LPR Chair solicits five nominations from each member of the APA Board.

Frequency: Every 2 years (odd years).

Award Amount: $5,000 from Open Court at the time of the delivery of the lectures, plus a $5,000 advance against royalties for publication of manuscript by Open Court Publishing Company. Of the second $5,000, half comes upon delivery of the manuscript and half comes upon actual publication.

Next Award: 2011

Background

The Carus lectures began in 1925, when the first set of lectures was delivered by John Dewey.

Previous awardees
2009 Ernest Sosa - Lectures to be delivered at the 2009-2010 Central Division meetings (Chicago, 2/2010)
2007 Bas van Fraassen
2005 Tyler Burge
2003 Judith J. Thomson
2001 Arthur Danto
1999 Ruth Barcan Marcus Withdrew/Cancelled
1997 Alasdair MacIntyre "Dependent Rational Animals" (Pacific)
1995 Annette Baier "The Commons of the Mind" (Eastern)
1990 Kurt Baier "The Rational and the Moral Order"
1988 Stanley Cavell "Emersonian Strains: 'The American Scholar and Heidegger on Thinking,' 'Experience and Wittgenstein Skepticism,' and 'Self-Reliance and American Cinema" (Pacific)
1985 Hilary Putnam "The Many Faces of Realism" (Eastern)
1983 Paul Grice "The Conception of Value"
1980 Donald Davidson "The Grounds of Truth and Value" (Pacific)
1977 Wilfred Sellars
1976 Gregory Vlastos
1974 William Frankena "Three Questions about Morality"
1972 V.W. Quine "The Roots of Reference"
1970 Carl G. Hempel
1967 Roderick Chisholm "Person and Object: A Metaphysical Study"
1965 Richard McKeon "Facts, Categories, Experience" (Eastern)
1964 Stephen Pepper "Concept and Quality"
1963 Ernest Nagel "The Dimensions of Critical Philosophy" (Western)
1959 Brand Blanshard "Reason and Analysis" (Eastern)
1957 George Boas "The Inquiring Mind" (Western)
1955 A.E. Murphy "An Inquiry Concerning Moral Understanding" (Pacific)
1953 J. Lowenberg "Reason and the Nature of Things" (Eastern)
1949 C.J. Ducasse "Nature, Mind, and Death" (Western)
1945 Morris R. Cohen "The Meaning of Human History" (Eastern)
1945 C.I. Lewis "An Analysis of Knowledge" (Pacific)
1939 E.B. McGilvary "Toward a Perspective Realism" (Joint meeting of the Eastern and Western)
1925-1939 George H. Mead "The Philosophy of the Present"
1925-1939 A.O. Lovejoy "The Revolt Against Dualism"
1925-1939 William Montague "Great Visions of Philosophy"
1925 John Dewey "Experience and Nature" Inaugural lecture