Lakatos Award 2027 – Call for nominations

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Lakatos Award 2027! Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The London School of Economics and Political Science invites nominations for the 2027 Lakatos Award. For the 2027 Award, books published in English with an imprint from 2021 to 2026, inclusive, are eligible.

The award is given for a monograph in the philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or co-authored, published in English. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible for nomination. Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied field may nominate a book. Nominations must include a statement, of between one and three paragraphs, explaining the nominator’s reasons for regarding the book prize-worthy. Self-nominations are not allowed. The nominator should write to the Lakatos Award Administrator with “Lakatos Award nomination” in the subject header. These letters will be passed on to the selectors if the book is shortlisted.

Please send nominations, or any queries, to the Lakatos Award Administrator Tom Hinrichsen (t.a.hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk).