Third Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner

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• Third Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner

The officers of the Hume Society and the editors of Hume Studies are pleased to announce the winner of the third annual Hume Studies Essay Prize.

The recipient of the prize for 2023 is Ariel Peckel, for his paper, “Hume beyond Theism and Atheism.” Dr. Peckel’s essay was unanimously ranked first by the members of the prize panel. Dr. Peckel holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is interested in philosophical naturalism, humanism, and atheism in early modern and modern European thought. He is especially interested in examining naturalism as a comprehensive framework of explanation and values in the works of Hobbes, Spinoza, Hume, Diderot, Darwin, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.

Dr. Peckel receives $1000 US, and his paper leads this issue of Hume Studies. Congratulations to Dr. Peckel for his excellent contribution to Hume scholarship!

Thank you to all the scholars who submitted papers. We received thirteen submissions for the Third Prize. Some of those papers were declined in the routine review process, and the editors judged others, based on referee comments, as not ready for the competition. We passed to the prize panel six papers for consideration. We are very grateful to the members of the Hume Studies Editorial Board who served on this year’s panel: James Fieser (chair), Peter Fosl, Ruth Weintraub, and John P. Wright.

The Hume Studies Essay Prize is an annual competition open to those ten or fewer years from the Ph.D., including those currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program. See the back of this issue for information on how to submit to the fourth prize competition. [End Page 5]

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