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The Marjorie Grene Prize is intended to advance the careers of younger scholars. It is awarded every two years for the best manuscript based on a presentation at one of the two previous ISHPSSB meetings by someone who was, at the time of presentation, a graduate student.
It is very appropriate for ISHPSSB to name this prize in Marjorie Grene’s honor. Not only does her work in the history and philosophy of biology exemplify the strong spirit of interdisciplinary work fundamental to the ISHPSSB, but she played a central role in bringing together diverse scholars of biology even before the formation of the Society. She has been a valued mentor to many members of the Society and a long-standing inspiration to all.
The award consists of a certificate and an award of US$500, as well as a permanent record of the award on a plaque which circulates every two years to the current winner(s).
Recipients
For the available prize citations, click on the name of the recipient.
| Year | Winner(s) | Presentation title(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Adrian Stencel, Javier Suarez, and Sophie Veigl | Rethinking Hereditary Relations: The Reconstitutor as the Evolutionary Unit of Heredity |
| 2021 | Kate Nicole Hoffmann and Ariel Jonathan Roffé |
Subjective Experience in Explanations of Animal PTSD Behaviour and (respectively) Dynamic Homology and Circularity in Cladistic Analysis |
| 2019 | Rick Morris | Stranger in a strange land: An optimal-environments account of evolutionary mismatch |
| 2017 | Emily C. Parke | Experiments, Simulations, and Epistemic Privilege |
| 2015 | Jun Otsuka | Using Causal Models to Integrate Proximate and Ultimate Causation |
| 2013 | John Matthewson and Lukas Rieppel |
Evolving Populations, |
| 2011 | Angela Potochnik | Explanatory Independence and Epistemic Interdependence: A case study of the optimality approach. |
| 2009 | Lisa Onaga | Toyama Kametaro and Vernon Kellogg: Silkworm inheritance experiments in Japan, Siam, and California, 1900–1912. |
| 2007 | Sabina Leonelli | Performing Abstraction: Two ways of modelling Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| 2005 | Tania Munz | The Bee Battles: Karl von Frisch, Adrian Wenner and the honey bee dance language controversy. |
| 2003 | Kevin Elliott | Error as a means to discovery. |
| 2001 | Rasmus Winter | August Weismann on germ-plasm variation. |
| 1997 | Judy Johns Schloegel | Biology as Biography and Biography of Biology: Intimacy, subjectivity, and “understanding” in the experimental work of H. S. Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn, and Paramecium aurelia. |