The Berggruen Prize

According to its website, the Berggruen Institute "offers the Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award that recognizes thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change."^[1]

The first recipient of the Berggruen Prize was the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, whose work "urges us to see humans as constituted not only by their biology or their personal intentions, but also by their existence within language and webs of meaningful relationships."^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The Prize is awarded yearly in December, with a ceremony at the New York Public Library. In 2016, ceremony speakers included University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann and journalist Fareed Zakaria.^[7]

Winners

• 2016: Charles Taylor – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University

Prize jury

• Kwame Anthony Appiah – Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University
• Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Antonio Damasio – Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California
• Amy Gutmann – President of the University of Pennsylvania
• Amartya Sen – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University
• Alison Simmons – Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
• Michael Spence – Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics & Business at New York University
• Wang Hui – Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University
• George Yeo – Former Foreign Minister of Singapore

References

External links

• Official website
• Berggruen Prize Winner Charles Taylor on the Big Questions; series of videos produced by the Berggruen Institute on occasion of Charles Taylor winning the inaugural prize.