Prizes and Awards

Schutz

Schutz Lecture

Summary

The Schutz Lecture is given on a topic on which the late Alfred Schutz wrote, especially the philosophy of history and philosophy of the social sciences. Beginning in 1995, the APA has combined its award with others offered by the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and the Council for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) to create an annual Lecture. The Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture is given each year at the annual meeting of SPHS, which is held in October or November in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). The awarded work will be published in Human Studies.

Process: The Schutz Lecturer is selected by a committee appointed by the Chair of the APA's Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research, in consultation with LPR committee members, as well as representatives of SPHS and CARP.

Frequency: Every year

Award Amount: $1,000 plus some travel and lodging

Last Award: 2007

Next Award: 2008

Previous/Current Awardees

2007 Ion Copoeru, Babes-Bolyai University

2006 Hisashi Nasu

2004 Professor Harold Garfinkel of UCLA

2003 Kurt Wolff, Emeritus, Brandeis University -- "This, Yes!"

2002 Michael Barber, Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University

2001 Lester Embree, Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, “Some Schutzian Theory of History Illustrated from the Women’s Movement”

2000 George Psathas, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Boston University, “Alfred Schutz’s Influence on American Sociology”

1999 Fred Kersten, Wisconsin, Green Bay, "A Stroll with Alfred Schutz"

1998 Thomas Luckmann "Moral Communication in Modern Societies"

1997 Richard Zaner, Vanderbilt, "Making Music Together While Growing Older: Further Reflections on Intersubjectivity"

1996 Ilja Srubar "Phenomenological Analysis and its Contemporary Significance"

1995 Maurice Natanson, Yale, "Alfred Schutz: Philosopher and Social Scientist"

1993 Edward S. Casey "The Ghost of Embodiment: Is the Body a Natural or a Cultural Entity?"

1989 David Carr

1986 Frederick Olafson

1982 Robert Sokolowski

1979 Dagfinn Follesdal

1975 Maurice Mandelbaum

1973 J.N. Findlay

1972 Herbert Spiegelberg "On the Right to Say 'We': A Linguistic and Phenomenological Analysis"

1968 Maurice Natanson

For more information about Alfred Schutz and his work (and a rare color photo of the philosopher), click here.