The BJPS Popper Prize 2021

We are delighted to announce that the BJPS Popper Prize for 2021 has been awarded to Eddy Keming Chen, for the article ‘Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State‘, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72, pp. 1155–83.

The BJPS Popper Prize is awarded to the article judged to be the best published in that year’s volume of the Journal, as determined by the Editors-in-Chief and the BSPS Committee. The prize includes a £500 award to the winner(s). More information about the prize and previous winners can be found here.

Below is the citation from the Editors-in-Chief.

Honourable mentions were also given to two other articles:

• Clara Bradley’s ‘The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz‘

• Lauren N. Ross’s ‘Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters‘