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New Leverhulme Prizes in the UK (UPDATED)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCT. 27–SEE UPDATE

They aren't announced yet on-line, but Luc Bovens, Head of Department at LSE, writes about two colleagues who are among the winners: 

Anna Mahtani (London School of Economics) has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.  Her project is entitled “Subjective Probability and Intensional Contexts”.

Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics) has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.  His project is entitled “Kinship, Morality and the Emotions: The Evolution of Human Social Psychology”.

The following link explains the prize. 

http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/PLP/PLP.cfm

UPDATE:  The full list of 2014 winners is out; other philosophers getting Prizes are Tim Button (Cambridge) and Ofra Magidor (Oxford).

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