The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has unveiled its 2024 class of fellows, a group of 223 individuals selected from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants. Among the scholars and artists recognized this year for their "prior achievement and exceptional promise" are three philosophers: Alan Baker of Swarthmore College, Kate Manne of Cornell University, and Gina Schouten of Harvard University.
The selection represents a focused cross-section of modern philosophical inquiry. While philosophers account for approximately 1.3% of the total fellowship recipients this year, their inclusion underscores the foundation's continued commitment to the humanities. The Guggenheim Fellowship remains one of the few high-prestige grants that operates on a "no strings attached" policy, providing recipients with six to twelve months of funding to pursue their work with complete intellectual autonomy.
This year’s class spans 55 disciplines, emphasizing the foundation’s role as a patron of both established expertise and experimental thought. For Baker, Manne, and Schouten, the award provides a rare window of dedicated time to explore the complexities of their respective fields—pursuits that often lack the immediate commercial incentives of the hard sciences but remain fundamental to the underlying structures of social and ethical life.
With reporting from Daily Nous.
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