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{{Infobox award
{{Infobox award
| winners = [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]]
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|name = The Berggruen Prize
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|presenter = [[Berggruen Institute|The Berggruen Institute]]
|description = Lifetime achievement award recognizing culturally and socially influential ideas from a living thinker
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|website = [http://berggruen.org/prize]
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|presenter = [[Berggruen Institute]]
|year = 2016
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|website = [http://philosophyandculture.berggruen.org/councils/5/ Berggruen.org]
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According to its website, [[Berggruen Institute|the Berggruen Institute]] “offers the Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award that recognizes thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change.” <ref>{{cite web|url=http://berggruen.org/prize|website=The Berggruen Institute's Website|accessdate=12 April 2017}}</ref>
'''The Berggruen Prize for Philosophy''', administered by the [[Berggruen Institute]], seeks to recognize a living thinker whose ideas are of basic importance for contemporary and future life.<ref name="forbes">{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelforbes/2015/11/23/berggruen-institute-launches-1m-nobel-prize-for-philosophy/#68e956a54e8a|title=Forbes Welcome |date= November 23, 2015 |publisher=forbes.com|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>

The Berggruen Prize for Philosophy carries a cash award of $1&nbsp;million. The inaugural Berggruen Prize for Philosophy was awarded to [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]] for his contributions that have "fundamentally shaped public discussion of the nature of multiculturalism, secularism and contemporary religious life."<ref>{{cite web|last1=SCHUESSLER|first1=JENNIFER|title=Canadian Philosopher Wins $1 Million Prize|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/books/canadian-philosopher-wins-1-million-prize.html?_r=0|website=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=5 October 2016}}</ref> The honoree will be invited to present and discuss his or her work in a major lecture and a special symposium held in New York City in December. Philosophy is here understood broadly, not as a single academic discipline but as serious intellectual work nurturing human wisdom. Nominations of thinkers from all languages, religions, civilizations and/or philosophical traditions are accepted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://philosophyandculture.berggruen.org/councils/5|title=Berggruen|website=philosophyandculture.berggruen.org|accessdate=2016-05-04}}</ref>
<ref name="huffingtonpost">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/berggruen-million-dollar-philosophy-prize_us_5602d46ae4b08820d91b1b88|title=Think Tank Creates $1 Million Philosophy Prize Because 'Ideas Matter' |date= September 24, 2015 |publisher=huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>
The first recipient of the Berggruen Prize was the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, whose work “urges us to see humans as constituted not only by their biology or their personal intentions, but also by their existence within language and webs of meaningful relationships.” <ref name="huffingtonpost">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/berggruen-million-dollar-philosophy-prize_us_5602d46ae4b08820d91b1b88|title=Think Tank Creates $1 Million Philosophy Prize Because 'Ideas Matter' |date= September 24, 2015 |publisher=huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>
<ref name="typepad">{{cite web|url=http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2015/09/new-berggruen-institute-for-philosophy-and-culture-plus-an-annual-1-million-prize.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923004224/http://leiterreports.typepad.com:80/blog/2015/09/new-berggruen-institute-for-philosophy-and-culture-plus-an-annual-1-million-prize.html |archive-date=2015-09-23 |dead-url=yes|title=Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, plus an annual $1 million prize|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>
<ref name="typepad">{{cite web|url=http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2015/09/new-berggruen-institute-for-philosophy-and-culture-plus-an-annual-1-million-prize.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923004224/http://leiterreports.typepad.com:80/blog/2015/09/new-berggruen-institute-for-philosophy-and-culture-plus-an-annual-1-million-prize.html |archive-date=2015-09-23 |dead-url=yes|title=Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, plus an annual $1 million prize|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>
<ref name="artnet">{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/people/nicolas-berggruen-philosophy-prize-333452|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009064208/https://news.artnet.com/people/nicolas-berggruen-philosophy-prize-333452 |archive-date=2015-10-09 |dead-url=yes|title=Nicolas Berggruen&#039;s $1 Million Philosophy Prize - artnet News|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>
<ref name="artnet">{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/people/nicolas-berggruen-philosophy-prize-333452|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009064208/https://news.artnet.com/people/nicolas-berggruen-philosophy-prize-333452 |archive-date=2015-10-09 |dead-url=yes|title=Nicolas Berggruen&#039;s $1 Million Philosophy Prize - artnet News|accessdate=2016-05-13}}</ref>


'''Berggruen Prize Winners'''
'''Winners of the Berggruen Prize'''


[[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]] – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University
[[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]] – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University


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'''Jury of the Berggruen Prize'''
'''Berggruen Philosophy Prize Jury'''


[[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] – Professor of Philosophy at New York University
[[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] – Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University
<br>[[Leszek Borysiewicz]] – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
<br>[[Leszek Borysiewicz]] – Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
<br>[[Antonio Damasio]] –Director, Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California
<br>[[Antonio Damasio]] – Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California
<br>[[Amy Gutmann]] – President of the University of Pennsylvania
<br>[[Amy Gutmann]] – President of the University of Pennsylvania
<br>[[Amartya Sen]] – Nobel Laureate, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
<br>[[Amartya Sen]] – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
<br>[[Alison Simmons]] – Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University
<br>[[Alison Simmons]] – Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
<br>[[Michael Spence]] – Nobel Laureate, William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business at New York University, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
<br>[[Michael Spence]] – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics & Business at New York University
<br>[[Wang Hui (intellectual)|Wang Hui]] – Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Department of History at Tsinghua University, Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
<br>[[Wang Hui (intellectual)|Wang Hui]] – Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University
<br>[[George Yeo]] – Chancellor of Nalanda University and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
<br>[[George Yeo]] – Former Foreign Minister of Singapore


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://philosophyandculture.berggruen.org/councils/5}}
* {{Official website|http://berggruen.org/prize}}


[[Category:Academic awards]]
[[Category:Academic awards]]

Revision as of 20:44, 12 April 2017

Berggruen Prize
Presented byThe Berggruen Institute
WinnersCharles Taylor
Website[1]

According to its website, the Berggruen Institute “offers the Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award that recognizes thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change.” [1]

The first recipient of the Berggruen Prize was the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, whose work “urges us to see humans as constituted not only by their biology or their personal intentions, but also by their existence within language and webs of meaningful relationships.” [2] [3] [4]

Winners of the Berggruen Prize

Charles Taylor – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University

Jury of the Berggruen Prize

Kwame Anthony Appiah – Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University
Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Antonio Damasio – Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California
Amy Gutmann – President of the University of Pennsylvania
Amartya Sen – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
Alison Simmons – Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
Michael Spence – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics & Business at New York University
Wang Hui – Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University
George Yeo – Former Foreign Minister of Singapore

References

  1. ^ The Berggruen Institute's Website http://berggruen.org/prize. Retrieved 12 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "Think Tank Creates $1 Million Philosophy Prize Because 'Ideas Matter'". huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  3. ^ "Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: New Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture, plus an annual $1 million prize". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-05-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Nicolas Berggruen's $1 Million Philosophy Prize - artnet News". Archived from the original on 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2016-05-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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