Alva Noë Wins Outstanding Monograph Prize

The American Society for Aesthetics announces that the 2024 Prize for Outstanding Monograph has been awarded to Alva Noë, for The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are (Princeton University Press, 2023). From the publisher:

In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature. . . . Challenging the notions that art is a mere cultural curiosity and that philosophy has been outmoded by science, The Entanglement offers a new way of thinking about human nature, the limits of natural science in understanding the human, and the essential role of art and philosophy in trying to know ourselves.

Ten nominations were received for the prize. The selection was made by a committee of three senior ASA members. The Outstanding Monograph Prize has been awarded annually since 2008. The 2025 prize will be awarded for a monograph published in 2024. The submission deadline is February 1, 2025, with the prize awarded at the 2025 Annual Meeting in October.  Complete guidelines: https://aesthetics-online.org/page/MonographPrize

Outstanding Monograph Prize Winners

Theodore Gracyk, Making Meaning in Popular Song: Philosophical Essays (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Hanneke Grootenboer, The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking (2022)
Jonathan Gilmore, Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (2021)
Rachel Zuckert, Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics (2020)
Michael Newall, A Philosophy of the Art School (2019)
Yuriko Saito, Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and Worldmaking (2018)
Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (2017)
Peter Kivy, De Gustibus: Arguing about Taste and Why We Do It (2016)
Paul Guyer, A History of Modern Aesthetics (2015)
Christy Mag Uidhir, Art and Art-Attempts (2014)
Kathleen Higgins, The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (2013)
Whitney Davis, Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (2012)
Peter Lamarque, Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art (2011)
Dominic McIver Lopes, A Philosophy of Computer Art (2010)
Allen Carlson and Glenn Parsons, Functional Beauty (2009)
Rachel Zuckert, Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgment (2008)