To honor the enormous contributions of Ted Cohen to aesthetics and the American Society for Aesthetics, Andy Austin Cohen and the ASA established in 2014 a $1000 annual prize "to recognize writing that is clear, graceful, and unencumbered by jargon or academic clichés. It should examine serious problems in aesthetics while also giving pleasure to the reader." In memory of Ted, his wife Andy Austin Cohen has generously funded this prize. Winners were selected each year by a committee of three senior ASA members, appointed by the ASA President. The Ted Cohen prize will no longer be offered after 2020.

Ted Cohen, photo University of Chicago.

Previous winners of the Ted Cohen Prize

2020: Michael Fischer (Trinity University): "Ted Cohen on Sharing the World" in Philosophy and Literature 2020:44 (188–198).

2019: Julian Dodd (University of Manchester): "What 4'33" Is" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96:4 (629-642).

2018: Terry F. Robinson (University of Toronto): "Eighteenth-Century Connoisseurship and the Female Body," in Oxford Handbooks Online (2017)

2017: Steven D. Hales (Bloomsburg University): "Audiophile Aesthetics," American Philosophical Quarterly 54:2 (April 2017), 195-208.

2016: Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro (Texas Tech University), "The Spoken and the Written—An Ontology of Poems," in The Philosophy of Poetry, John Gibson, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 127-148.

2015: Carolyn Korsmeyer (University of Buffalo): "The Triumph of Time: Romanticism Redux," JAAC 72:4 (Fall 2014)