The Hermann Lotze Prize
The International Szklarska Poreba Center for Experimental Philosophy & Pragmasemantics has awarded its first Lotze Medal in 2009. The Medal is given in honour of Rudolf Herman Lotze, one of the greatest experimental philosophers of the 19th century and a staunch friend of the founders of the Centre. It is awarded annually to scientists who have made significant contributions to experimental philosophy and pragmasemantics. The internal consistency, coherence and significance of the nominee’s research programme is important, not the uniformity with current mainstream paradigms.
An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates. The committee membership is for a regular period of four years. The deadline for receipt of nominations is 10 November of the year before the prize cerenomy. You can download the "Nomination Form". Submitting an informal nomination is possible.
The Lotze Medal is not awarded to Nobel Laureates, winners of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, or Rumelhart Prize winners.
It is easy to show that in the interaction between body and soul there
lies no greater riddle than in any other example of causation,
and that only the false
conceit that we understand something of the one case, excites our astonishment that we
understand nothing of the other.
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze
For further information, please write to prize@hlotze.com
Prize Committee
- Peter beim Graben, DFG Heisenberg Fellow for Cognitive Neurodynamics, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)
- Reinhard Blutner, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Markus Egg, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)
- Hans-Martin Gärtner, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest (Hungary)
- Anton Benz, Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (Germany)
- Eduardo Mizraji, University of Montevideo (Uruguay)
- Mǎ Jié Shēng 馬傑生, Providence University (Taiwan)
- Jakub Szymanik, Meaning and Computation Lab, University of Trento (Italy)
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Zwaarts, Joost, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
The Medallist
| 2009 |
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Peter beim Graben |
Excerpt from the laudatio by Hans-Martin Gärtner |
| 2010 |
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Michiel van Lambalgen University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fritz Hamm University of Tübingen, |
Excerpt from the laudatio by Anton Benz |
| 2011 |
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Peter Bosch
† University of Osnabrück, Germany |
Excerpt from the laudatio by Markus Egg |
| 2012 |
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Peter Gärdenfors University of Lund, Sweden |
Excerpt from the laudatio by Peter beim Graben |
| 2013 |
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Heinrich Wansing Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
Excerpt from the laudatio by Klaus Robering |
| 2015 |
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Sonja Smets ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Excerpt from the laudation by Reinhard Blutner and some pictures of the prize ceremony |
2016 |
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Louise McNally Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Bercelona, Spain |
Excerpt from the laudation by Berit Gehrke | 2021 |
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Thomas Noll the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Spain |
Excerpt from the ceremony | 2022 |
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Maria Mannone University of Palermo, Italy |
Excerpt from the
ceremony Video |
2023 |
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Andrés Pomi Universidad de a República, Montevideo, Uruguay |
Excerpt from the ceremony |
Relevant Links
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http://www.philosophiebuch.de/faksimiles/index.html (here you can order Lotze's books in an electronic version)
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Henry Stapp (Hermann Lotze claimed the possibility of a causal connection between mind and brain. Unfortunately, classical physics provides no rational foundation for such a causal connection. However, quantum mechanics rationally accommodates a two-way causal linkage between mind and brain, as can be seen in the writings of Henry Stapp)
Impressum
reinhard blutner .:.
fnwi/illc .:.
universiteit van amsterdam .:.
p.o. box 94242 .:. 1090 ge amsterdam .:. email: reinhard@hlotze.com .:.
web: www.blutner.de
Last updated on July, 2023