Lotze Medal of the ISPC

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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

 

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.

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 Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
• Berit Gehrke, CNRS-LLF Paris (France)
• Eduardo Mizraji, University of Montevideo (Uruguay)
• Mǎ Jié Shēng 馬傑生, Providence University (Taiwan)
• Jakub Szymanik, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Zwaarts, Joost, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
   

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The Medallist

2009		Peter beim Graben University of Reading, U.K.	Excerpt from the laudatio by Hans-Martin Gärtner Prize Ceremony
2010		Michiel van Lambalgen University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fritz Hamm University of Tübingen, Germany	Excerpt from the laudatio by Anton Benz Prize Ceremony
2011		Peter Bosch † University of Osnabrück, Germany	Excerpt from the laudatio by Markus Egg
2012		Peter Gärdenfors University of Lund, Sweden	Excerpt from the laudatio by Peter beim Graben
2013		Heinrich Wansing Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany	Excerpt from the laudatio by Klaus Robering
2015		Sonja Smets ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Excerpt from the laudation by Reinhard Blutner and some pictures of the prize ceremony
2016		Louise McNally Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Bercelona, Spain	Excerpt from the laudation by Berit Gehrke

Relevant Links

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermann-lotze/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Lotze

• http://www.philosophiebuch.de/faksimiles/index.html (here you can order Lotze's books in an electronic version)

• Hermann Lotze und seine Psychologie.  Prof. Dr. Erich Becher, München. Die Naturwissenschaften 1917 (Heft 20)

• 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)

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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 January, 2018