APA Barwise Prize

On Monday, I was waiting for my opponent to show up for a university squash match, but since he was a bit late I thought I could check my email. You cannot imagine my surprise, delight, confusion and useful energy (to which I owe a 3-0) when I read that the American Philosophical Association had select me to receive the Barwise Prize “for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing [...] in recognition of his research on the philosophy of information”.

I will receive the award during the APA’s Eastern Meeting in NY in December 2009, when I will deliver the Barwise Lecture.

Amazing.

Previous winners are:
2007, David Chalmers (Australian National University);
2006, James H. Moor (Dartmouth College);
2005, Hubert Dreyfus (UC Berkeley);
2004, Deborah Johnson (University of Virginia);
2003, Daniel Dennett (Tufts University);
2002, Patrick Suppes (Stanford University).

Humbling.