Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the executive board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), I seek nominations for the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award.
The Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career who are likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy by their original research. Previous recipients of the award include:
- 2024: Corey Maley (Purdue University)
- 2023: Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University)
- 2022: Björn Lundgren (Utrecht University)
- 2021: Carissa Véliz (University of Oxford)
- 2020: no award
- 2019: Juan M. Durán (Delft University of Technology)
- 2018: Thomas C. King (Oxford Internet Institute)
- 2017: Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University)
- 2016: Marcin Milkowski (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
- 2015: Michael Rescorla (University of California-Santa Barbara)
- 2014: Gualterio Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
- 2013: Judith Simon (University of Vienna)
- 2012: Patrick Allo (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
- 2011: John Sullins (Sonoma State)
- 2010: Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford)
The Simon award will be presented at the 2025 joint IACAP and AISB conference organized at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Call for papers and symposia will follow in due course.
Please send your nomination(s) through our online form: https://limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/777597?lang=en
For full consideration, please submit your nomination no later than the end of November. This year, the nominations are first considered by our newly-formed award committee, who will make their recommendations to the IACAP board. If you have any questions concerning the nominations, please reach out to me (bjorn.lundgren@fau.de) and the chair of the awards committee, Tom Powers (tpowers@udel.edu). Please CC Brian (brian.ballsun-stanton@mq.edu.au) for technical queries.
Please note that the award committee will prima facie consider around 10 years from receiving a PhD as a cutoff for whether a scholar is at “an early stage of their academic career.” If you for some reason want to nominate someone who received their PhD more than 10 years ago, please state clearly why the board should make an exception. Alternatively, consider whether the individual contribution is sufficient for consideration for the Covey award.
All the best,
Björn Lundgren
Vice President, International Association of Computing and Philosophy