The North American Society for Social Philosophy sponsors a prestigious book award at each of its annual meetings. Awardees are featured in a plenary session on their book, with comments from three presenters. In addition, the prize comes with a beautiful plaque.
The winner of the 2024 Book Award is Jennifer Lackey, for Criminal Testimonial Injustice, Oxford 2023.
NASSP Members and publishers are invited to nominate books using the form below. Scroll down to see a list of previous winners!
Previous Award Winners
Book award for 2022 given at the 2023 meeting: Elsa Dorlin’s Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence (Verso)
Book award for 2021 given at the 2022 meeting: Anne Schwenkenbecher’s Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations (Routledge)
Book award for 2020 given at the 2021 meeting: Serena Parekh’s No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 2019 given at the 2020 meeting: Yvonne Chiu’s Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare (Columbia University Press)
Book award for 2018 given at the 2019 meeting: Rahel Jaeggi, Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard University Press)
Book award for 2017 given at the 2018 meeting: Colleen Murphy, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 2016 given at the 2017 meeting: Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Harvard University Press)
Book award for 2015 given at the 2016 meeting: Paul B. Thompson, From Fork to Field: Food Ethics for Everyone (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 2014 given at the 2015 meeting: Joseph Fishkin, Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 2013 given at the 2014 meeting: Meira Levinson, No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press)
Book award for 2012 given at the 2013 meeting: Jose Medina, The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imagination (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 2011 given at the 2012 meeting: Ben Berger, Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement (Princeton University Press)
Book award for 2010 given at the 2011 meeting: Stephen Nathanson, Terrorism and the Ethics of War (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 2009 given at the 2010 meeting: Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press)
Book award for 2008 given at the 2009 meeting: G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality (Harvard University Press)
Book award for 2007 given at the 2008 meeting: Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Odsseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 2006 given at the 2007 meeting: Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (Columbia University Press)
Book award for 2005 given at the 2006 meeting: Larry May, Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 2004 given at the 2005 meeting: Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 2003 given at the 2004 meeting: Susan Campbell, Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (Rowman & Littlefield)
Book award for 2002 given at the 2003 meeting: Paul Weithman, Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 2001 given at the 2002 meeting: Lawrence Blum, I’m Not a Racist But…The Moral Quandary of Race (Cornell University Press)
Book award for 1999 given at the 2000 meeting: Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (Oxford University Press)
Book award for 1998 given at the 1999 meeting: James Sterba, Justice for Here and Now (Cambridge University Press)
Book award for 1995 given at the 1996 meeting: Joseph M. Schwartz, The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics (Princeton University Press)
Book award for 1992 given at the 1993 meeting: Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis (The Free Press)
Book award for 1991 given at the 1992 meeting: Ferdinand David Schoeman, Privacy and Social Freedom (Cambridge University Press)