2014 Annual Book Award

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 2014.

The Award will be offered to the book published in 2014 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. [Note: For the purposes of this competition, a book will normally be considered to have been published in the year of its copyright, rather than the year of its release, unless there are exceptional circumstances that warrant otherwise.]

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 2014 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 December 31, 2014.

The 2014 book award committee consists of:

 

Jeff Gauthier (chair), University of Portland gauthier@up.edu

Jeffrey M. Brown, University of Denver jbrow321@du.edu

Barry DeCoster, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Barry.Decoster@acphs.edu