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North American Society for Social Philosophy

NASSP BOOK AWARD NOMINATION SITE

 Dear NASSP Members,

 

Each year, the North American Society for Social Philosophy honors the best book published in social philosophy during that year with the NASSP Book Award. The Book Award Committee invites you to nominate a book to compete for this award for the year 2011.

 

The Award will be offered to the book published in 2011 that makes the most significant contribution to social philosophy. The field is to be construed broadly, to include social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of social science, and social ethics. Excluded are anthologies, historical studies, works on ethics that lack a distinctly social component as well as works on a social topic that lack a substantial philosophical component.

 

The Award is presented each year at our annual conference, where the author receives a plaque and participates in a panel presentation concerning the book. The winning book and other nominated books are displayed at the conference and publicized in our newsletter and in our refereed journal, The Journal of Social Philosophy. 

 

Please take a few moments and consider which book or books published in 2011 you thought best – then click the link below to send your nomination to this year’s book award committee. You may also click the link if you have questions; it will be sent to the entire committee. To keep the task manageable, the Book Award Committee will need to receive your nominations by January 15, 2012.

 

The 2011 book award committee consists of

Chris Lowry (chair), Chinese University of Hong Kong, lowry@cuhk.edu.hk

Wendy Lee, Bloomsburg University, wlee@bloomu.edu

Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania, kctan@sas.upenn.edu

 

Click here to PLACE YOUR NOMINATION

 

Please include:

Your Name

Author, Title, Publisher (must be a 2011 publication)

 

Some Past Winners of the NASSP Book Award:

 

Stephen Nathanson, Terrorism and the Ethics of War (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

 

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2009)

 

G. A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality (Harvard University Press, 2008)

 

Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2007)

 

Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience (Columbia University Press, 2006)

 

Larry May, Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

 

Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens (Cambridge University Press, 2004)