Berggruen Prize for Philosophy
| The Berggruen Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Lifetime achievement award recognizing culturally and socially influential ideas from a living thinker |
| Presented by | Berggruen Institute |
| First awarded | 2016 |
| Official website | Berggruen.org |
The Berggruen Philosophy for Philosophy, administered by the Berggruen Institute, seeks to recognize a living thinker whose ideas are of basic importance for contemporary and future life.[1] The Berggruen Prize for Philosophy carries a cash award of $1 million. The inaugural Berggruen Prize for Philosophy was awarded to Charles Taylor for his contributions that have "fundamentally shaped public discussion of the nature of multiculturalism, secularism and contemporary religious life."[2] The honoree will be invited to present and discuss his or her work in a major lecture and a special symposium held in New York City in December. Philosophy is here understood broadly, not as a single academic discipline but as serious intellectual work nurturing human wisdom. Nominations of thinkers from all languages, religions, civilizations and/or philosophical traditions are accepted.[3] [4] [5] [6]
Berggruen Prize Winners
Charles Taylor – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University
Berggruen Philosophy Prize Jury
Kwame Anthony Appiah – Professor of Philosophy at New York University
Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Antonio Damasio –Director, Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California
Amy Gutmann – President of the University of Pennsylvania
Amartya Sen – Nobel Laureate, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
Alison Simmons – Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University
Michael Spence – Nobel Laureate, William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business at New York University, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
Wang Hui – Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Department of History at Tsinghua University, Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
George Yeo – Chancellor of Nalanda University and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
References
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- ↑ "Think Tank Creates $1 Million Philosophy Prize Because 'Ideas Matter'". huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
- ↑ "Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, plus an annual $1 million prize". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
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