We are pleased to announce that an alumnus from our PhD program, Douglas Campbell, has received the 2024 Article Prize, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) to the best article in the publication’s pages. Campbell, now an assistant professor at Alma College in Michigan, earned his doctoral degree from our department in 2020. The award honoured his article “Irrigating Blood: Plato on the Circulatory System, the Cosmos, and Elemental Motion,” published in the JHP‘s October 2024 issue.
Campbell’s concerns what Plato calls the “irrigation system” in the Timaeus (77a–81e), a system that replenishes the body’s tissues with resources from food delivered as blood. Campbell argues that this system functions mainly by the natural like-to-like motion of the elements and that the circulation of blood offers an important case study of Plato’s physics.
In another not to our department, an honorable mention for the prize went to University Professor Cheryl Misak. Her essay, “Ryle’s Debt to Pragmatism and Margaret MacDonald,” also appeared in the October 2024 of the JHP. In it, Misak argues that Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 The Concept of Mind owes much to the little-known work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret MacDonald.
Congratulations to both writers!
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