Every three years the International Plato Society awards a prize for the best dissertation on Plato. The prize is in honor of Conrado Eggers Lan (pictured left), Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg, and Autónoma de México (UNAM), host of the First Symposium Platonicum (Mexico City, 1986), and one of the founders of our society. The Editorial Committee of the IPS has now evaluated the dissertations on Plato written between 2016 and 2019 that were submitted for the award and come to a decision.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the prize is: Evan Glenn Rodriguez, Exploring Both Sides: Plato’s New Method for First Principles, a PhD dissertation completed in 2016 at Yale University and supervised by Verity Harte.
The Editorial Committee would also like to recognize the excellence of two other dissertations written by: Carmen Di Lorenzo (second) and Lorenzo Giovanetti (third). The winner and the two runners-up have been invited to publish their dissertations in the IPS Series published by Nomos Press.
Congratulations! Many thanks to the Editorial Committee.