We are pleased to announce the winners of Popper Prize and The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2024.

Lea Bourguignon has been awarded the Watkins Prize for her paper “On the Possibility of Act Contractualism” (Australasian Journal of Philosophy).

Lorenzo Sartori has been awarded the Popper Memorial Prize for his paper “Model Organisms as Scientific Representations” (the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science).

Congratulations to both winners!

About the prizes

The Popper Prize
The Popper Prize is offered every two years, for distinguished achievement in graduate work in an area of philosophy to which Karl Popper made significant contributions. All current postgraduate research students in the Department are eligible for the award. Sir Karl Popper founded the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE in 1946 and is known as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

The John Watkins Memorial Prize
The John Watkins Memorial Prize is offered every year to continuing students, graduate or undergraduate, for distinguished achievement in any of the areas in which Professor John Watkins worked. All current postgraduate research students in the Department are eligible for the award. John Watkins was Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics from 1966 until his retirement in 1989. After his retirement, Watkins played a leading role in establishing the Lakatos Award in the Philosophy of Science.