The BJPS Popper Prize (formerly the Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize) is awarded annually for the best article appearing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in the preceding year. It is awarded by the Editors-in-Chief of the Journal, in consultation with the Journal’s Associate Editors and members of the BSPS Committee. The prize includes a £500 award to the winner. More information about the prize and previous winners can be found here.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s BJPS Popper Prize is Fabrizio Calzavarini (University of Turin). Below is the citation from the BJPS Editors, as well as the papers that received honourable mentions.

The following articles received honourable mentions

Joe Roussos
‘Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling’
2025, 76, pp. 421–48

Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve & Roderich Tumulka
‘The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations’
2025, 76, pp. 869–94

Cecily Whiteley
‘Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness’
2025, 76, pp. 663–90

Many congratulations to all the authors of these papers