The editor at the Journal of the History of Philosophy have requested that we post the following:

Dear colleagues,

As editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, it is my pleasure to announce the following prizes for recent scholarship in the history of philosophy.

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $3000 for the best published book in the history of philosophy. The winner of the prize for 2007 is Terence Irwin’s The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study, Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2007).

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $1500 for the best contribution to the Articles section of the Journal. The prize for 2008 is Richard Foley’s “Plato’s Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI” (vol. 46: 1–24).

For more information, please visit the Journal’s website, http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp.

Sincerely,
Tad M. Schmaltz, Editor
Journal of the History of Philosophy