Anita Silvers Essay Prize
The Society for Philosophy and Disability’s Anita Silvers Essay Prize is awarded to the best unpublished (or published within the last two years) English-language essay in the field of philosophy of disability. The author of the winning essay will receive $500 (or an equal split of this money if there is more than one winner). If the winning essay is unpublished, the author will be invited to publish their award-winning work in The Journal of Philosophy of Disability.
2025 Winner
Luke Beesley: “Anchoring Disablement: Social Definitions and Social Ontology in Britain’s Disabled People’s Movement”
Award Details
- Winners are decided by the current SPD board.
- Nominations for the SPD Anita Silvers award are due each year on June 15th. Self-nominations are welcome.
- Only essays that are unpublished or that have been published in the last two years are eligible for this award.
- The nominees and nominators’ identities will be kept from the judges.
- Submissions should be anonymously prepared (including, if the paper has been published, all information concerning its publication) and sent to the SPD Director of Outreach at silversessayprize@gmail.com.
- Please direct any communications concerning the award to the SPD Director of Outreach at silversessayprize@gmail.com. Please do not reach out to anyone else at the Society for Philosophy and Disability.
- Winner (or winners, if there is a tie) will be announced by the President of SPD each fall.
- In the event that no submission meets the committee’s standards of excellence in a given cycle, the prize will not be awarded that year.
