The Society for US Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce this call for submissions for the 2021 John Dewey Prize.
This triennial prize honors an excellent book of original research published between 2018-2020 on the history of American philosophy, broadly understood. Funded by a generous grant from the John Dewey Foundation, this prize consists of a cash award of $500. With this prize we honor the legacy of the Dewey Foundation and its commitment to the scholarly study of the work of Dewey and American philosophy, and look to support one aspect of that legacy: commitment to the historical study of philosophy and formal thought.
S-USIH currently awards its annual book prize for the best work in American intellectual history, and will continue to do so. The Dewey Award supplements that existing S-USIH Book Award by recognizing the history of philosophy and formal argumentation as a distinct area of study within the broader field of intellectual history. But, in the spirit of Dewey, the prize will also consider “philosophy” to refer to a broader domain than a narrow and technical definition of the discipline of philosophy might allow. The author need not be an academic. For the current cycle the book, however, must have a copyright of 2018, 2019, or 2020.
The first annual award, given in 2018, went to John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) .
We expect to announce the 2021 prize winner by July 1, 2021.
If you wish to be considered for this prize, please send one copy of your submission(s), to each of the three members of the award committee, listed below. Prize submissions need to arrive at one (at least) of the committee members’ addresses by 21 February 2021.
- Bruce Kuklick (Prize Committee Chair): 210 W. Rittenhouse Square, #2501, Philadelphia, PA 19103
- Amy Kittelstrom: 648 Bobelaine Dr, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
- Hunter Heyck: Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm St., PHSC 601, Norman, OK 73019-0315
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