The Circle is pleased to share that David Morris has been awarded the 2020 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology for his monograph, Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology (Northwestern U. Press 2018). A description of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize appears below:

The Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology with interest from a fund raised from Professor Ballard’s family, students, and friends. The prize of $1,000 is awarded annually, beginning in 1997, for the best book in phenomenology from the previous three years nominated in an area of interest to Ballard. Books that are phenomenological and published in English, French, German, or Spanish focusing on art, ancient philosophy, the philosophy of the liberal arts, or the philosophies of mathematics, natural science, or technology.