The Royal Institute of Philosophy has today unveiled the longlist for the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
Now in its second year, this award celebrating exceptional discipline-transcending works has seen an impressive increase in high-quality submissions trying for a chance at the £20,000 annual prize.
The following publications have been chosen for this year’s longlist by the judging panel:
- Chris Armstrong, Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis (Oxford University Press).
- Jonathan S Blake and Nils Gilman, Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis (Stanford University Press).
- Mazviita Chirimuuta, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (The MIT Press).
- Joseph LeDoux, The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human (Harvard University Press).
- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, Field Guide to Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press)
- Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press).
On last year’s outstanding prize-winner, The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan, Chair of the judging panel Professor Constantine Sandis, Director of Lex Academic and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, remarked that:
“Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex is an extraordinary book that transcends disciplinary barriers. The author encourages readers to think with her through fundamental questions about gender, class, race, and power that are of utmost significance to the understanding of human behaviours. Every person in the world should read this brilliant book as soon as they can.”
Professor Lucy O’Brien, Chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, says:
“The Royal Institute of Philosophy is devoted to enabling philosophical thinking. We empower the curious of every age and background to think more deeply about fundamental questions and we are delighted to deliver this book prize to encourage a better understanding of our world.”
More information about the book prize can be found here.
The 2024 Judging Panel:
Prof. Constantine Sandis (Chair),Founding Director of Lex Academic & Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire.
Prof. Stella Sandford, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
Prof. Stephen Cave, Director at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), University of Cambridge.
Prof. Lambros Malafouris, Professor of Cognitive & Anthropological Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Prof. Francesca Cacucci, Professor of Neuroscience, University College London.
Prof. Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy.