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

