Call for nominations for the 2025 Lakatos Award: Deadline: 1 September 2024.

For the 2025 Award, books published in English with an imprint from 2019 to 2024, inclusive, are eligible. The award is given for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied field may nominate a book. Nominations must include a statement, of between one and three paragraphs, explaining the nominator’s reasons for regarding the book prize-worthy. Self-nominations are not allowed.

Nominations must be submitted by Sunday 1 September 2024.

Please address nominations, or any requests for further information, to the Lakatos Award Administrator Tom Hinrichsen and use “Lakatos Award nomination” in the subject header. The nomination statement will be passed on to the selectors if the book is shortlisted.

About the Lakatos Award

The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years. More about the award.