EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Graduate Student Essay Prize

At the biennial conference, the EPSA awards a 500€ prize for the most engaging paper published in EJPS by a graduate student.

For the 2025 Prize, eligible papers are those submitted to EJPS in 2023 and 2024 and accepted for publication, and whose authors were graduate students at the time of submission.

Criteria:

  • Constructive and collegial aspect of the main thesis;
  • Originality of main thesis, in the sense of how the idea opens novel spaces for discussion, within existing or emerging debates;
  • Clarity of argumentative structure;
  • Breadth of the literature, in the sense of openness to debates and scholarly productions that goes beyond Anglo-American debates.

The organizers of the EPSA25 Prize are Federica Russo and Edouard Machery and the members of the selection committee will be announced soon.

2023 Awardees

We are proud to announce the winners of our 5th Graduate Student Essay Prize:

Past Awardees

The following is a list of former winners of the Graduate Student Essay Prize:
  • EPSA21 in Turin. Kristian González Barman (University of Ghent) for "Explanatory Holes? Testing the Limits of the Mechanistic Framework".
  • EPSA19 in Geneva. Benedikt Knüsel (ETH Zurich) for “Understanding Climate Phenomena with Data-Driven Models".
  • EPSA17 in Exeter. Conix Stijn (University of Cambridge) for ‘Integrative Taxonomy and the Operationalization of Evolutionary Independence".
  • EPSA15 in Düsseldorf. Rune Nyrup (Durham University) for "Empirical Problems for Explanationism". 

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