SWIP Distinguished Philosopher Awards: Past Recipients

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Please note that the award was previously called the Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award and awarded under such a name until 2021. In 2021 it was decided after lengthy discussions with members that the award should reflect the inclusive values SWIP has always upheld and that public identification as a woman should not be assumed as a criterion of the award. 

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• 2024: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)

• 2023: Ann Ferguson (UMass, Amherst - Emerita)

• 2022: Kathryn Norlock (Trent University)

• 2021: Margaret 'Peg' Simmons (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

• 2020: Ann Garry (California State Los Angeles) 

• 2016: Maria Lugones (Binghamton University)

• 2014: Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)

• 2013: Alison Wylie (University of Washington, Seattle)

• 2012: Diana Meyers (Loyola University Chicago)

• 2011: Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield)

• 2010: Sally Haslanger (MIT)

• 2009: Lorraine Code (York University)

• 2008: Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State University)

• 2007: Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky)

• 2006: Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut)

• 2005: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College, CUNY)

• 2004: Susan Sherwin (Dalhousie University)

• 2003: Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University)

• 2002: Sara Ruddick (New School of Social Research)

• 2001: Amélie Rorty (Brandeis University)

• 2000: No recipient

• 1999: Marilyn Frye (Michigan State University)

• 1998: Linda López McAlister (University of South Florida)

• 1997: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin)

• 1996: Gertrude Ezorsky (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

• 1995: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado)

• 1994: Iris Marion Young (University of Chicago)

• 1993: Kathryn Pyne Addelson (Smith College)

• 1992: Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Center)

• 1991: Jane Roland Martin (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

• 1990: Sandra Harding (UCLA)

• 1989: Hazel Barnes (University of Colorado)

• 1988: Leigh Cauman (Columbia University)

• 1987: Elizabeth Flower (University of Pennsylvania)

• 1986: Mary Mothersill (Barnard College)

• 1985: Marjorie Grene (as of 1988 (Virginia Tech))

• 1984: Elizabeth Lane Beardsley (Temple University)