Professor Grim forwarded the announcement this morning to all the Nominating Editors (I've added institutional affiliation of the author for 2017-18 in parentheses); I'm pleased to see several excellent historical papers among the winners this year:

The final selection–

The Philosopher’s Annual volume 36

from the literature of 2016

Luc Bovens (LSE, but moving to North Carolina in January), “Selection Under Uncertainty: Affirmative Action at the Shortlisting Stage,” from Mind.

Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern), “Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?” from Deontic Modality, N. Charlow and M. Chrisman (eds.), Oxford University Press.

 Shamik Dasgupta (Berkeley), “Metaphysical Rationalism,” from Noûs.

 Cian Dorr (NYU), “Against Counterfactual Miracles,” from the Philosophical Review.

Jacob Klein (Colgate), “The Stoic Argument from Oikeiōsis,” from Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

 Samuel Levey (Dartmouth), “The Paradox of Sufficient Reason,” from the Philosophical Review.

Anat Schechtman (Wisconsin), “Substance and Independence in Descartes,” from the Philosophical Review. 

Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College), “The Coherence of Bayle's Theory of Toleration,” from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. 

Una Stojnić (Columbia), “One’s Modus Ponens: Modality, Coherence and Logic,” from Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) and Marc Fleurbaey (Wilson School, Princeton), “Priority or Equality for Possible People?” from Ethics.  

These will be posted with links at www.philosophersannual.org with a general introduction shortly.  Our thanks to the Nominating Editors for a wonderful set of initial nominations and for extremely useful survey input and comments. 

We hope that you will join us as a nominating editor again next year, and that you will be keeping your eye out for excellent work in the literature of 2017 in the meantime.

With all the best,

Patrick Grim

Boris Babic

Caroline Perry

Joseph Shin