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Toronto’s Ainslie wins JHP Book Prize for 2015

Philosopher Deborah Nails (emerita, Michigan State), the book review editor of JHP, asked me to share this announcement, which I am happy to do:

Donald C. Ainslie, University of Toronto, is this year's winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy $5,000 prize for the best book in the history of philosophy published in the previous year.  His Hume's True Scepticism was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.

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