Early-Career Scholar Prize

The ECAP12 Best Paper Prize recognises outstanding contributions by early-career researchers across the eleven thematic sections of the congress. Below are the prize winners and honourable mentions for each section.

1. History of Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy

Prize Winner

Benjamin Zayton — University of Vienna, Austria
Carnap’s Notion of Translation

Honourable Mention

Javier Arango — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), US
Not Theory, but Method: Redeeming Carnap’s Deflationism

2. Epistemology

Prize Winner

Francesco Di Betta — The University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Italy
Probability, Normality, and Learning from Experience

Honourable Mentions

Zofia Zacharova — Universities of St Andrews and University of Stirling (SASP), UK
Instrumental Reasons and the Aim of Inquiry

Zhengxi Jin — Collège de France, France
Concepts as Interrogative Skills

3. Philosophy of Science

Prize Winner

Marta Pedroni — University of Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Dresden, Germany
The Location of Black Hole Singularities

Honourable Mentions

Minato Asari — Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Japan
Information-Theoretic Account of Misinformation

Johannes Brinz — Osnabrück University, Germany
What Are Neurocomputational Models

Vuk Kolarevic — University of Barcelona, Spain
Does Formalising Psychological Theories Advance Scientific Understanding?

4. Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

Prize Winner

Niccolò Rossi — University of Pavia, Italy
Truthmaker Semantics for Epistemic Justification

Honourable Mentions

Gioia Susanna — University of Oslo, Norway
Feferman on the Indeterminacy of the Continuum Hypothesis

Pablo Valencia Equy — University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and University of Geneva, Switzerland
A Non-Boolean Semantics for First Degree Entailment

5. Philosophy of Language

Prize Winners

Elek Lane — University of Vienna, Austria
Slurs: The Sound and the Fury

Ana Rosa López Rodríguez — University of Granada, Spain
Nonmonotonicity as a Critique of the Ideal of Neutrality

Honourable Mentions

Ross Patrizio — University of Glasgow, UK
Gricean Maxims as Epistemic Norms

Carla Peri — University of Padova, Italy
Beyond Equivalence: Identity Criteria as Because-Claims

6. Philosophy of Mind and Action

Prize Winner

Jacopo Pallagrosi — University of Liège, Belgium
The Acquaintance Trilemma: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Mental Qualities

Honourable Mentions

Juan F. Álvarez (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Lou Thomine (University of Cologne), Germany
A Normative Account of Forgetting

Elena Ostos — Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
From Generic to Generalised Remembering

Jonida Kodra — Osnabrück University, Germany
Control and Sense of Agency in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

7. Metaphysics

Prize Winner

Milenko Lasnibat — Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
Essence and Explanation-Based Justification

Honourable Mentions

Paolo Lattanzi — University of Siegen, Germany
A Dynamic Tense-Logical Model for Relativistic Time

Pietro Lampronti — Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), Germany
How the Hyperintensional Nature of Fundamentality Refutes Quantifier Variance

Florian Gatignon — University of Geneva, Switzerland
Instantaneous Stages in Instantless Worlds

8. Ethics

Prize Winner

Michael Vollmer — University of Heidelberg, Germany
A Contrastive Account of Fittingness

Honourable Mentions

Rachel Frenette — Paris 1 University, France
Are There Degrees of Moral Responsibility?

Nicola Zetti — KU Leuven, Belgium
Full Excuses Negate Wrongdoing

Patricia Sánchez Oliva — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Answerability and Emotional Closure

9. Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Prize Winner

Levani Sikharulidze — University of Barcelona, Spain
Trusting Authoritarian Propaganda or Pretending to Trust It?

Honourable Mention

Oskari Sivula — University of Helsinki, Finland
Pure Risk and Harm

10. Aesthetics

Prize Winner

Erik Wöller — Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Author’s Authority

Honourable Mentions

Mert Ateşsal — Bilkent University, Turkey
Why You Cannot Own the Parthenon: Cultural Treasures and the Limits of Property

Mariona Eiren Miyata-Sturm — University of Oxford, UK
Aesthetic theoretical virtues will not help you gain non-factive understanding

11. Philosophy of Religion

Prize Winner

Monika Morkūnaitė — Vilnius University, Lithuania
The Logic of Theistic Metaphysics

Honourable Mention

Dominik Odermatt — Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), Germany
The Doctrine of the Imago Dei: Meeting two Challenges for No-Norm Theism