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The 2024 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics has concluded, and we are pleased to announce that the winning essay is “A Puzzle about Sums,” by Andrew Yuan Lee of the University of Toronto.
The selection committee—consisting of Dean Zimmerman, Karen Bennett, and Jason Turner—was faced with a challenging job. There were many worthy essays among the 39 submissions, including these runners-up (in no particular order): “Distinctions with a Difference,” by Alexander Roberts; “Permeating Properties,” by Erica Shumener; and “Matter and Mereology,” by Jeremy Goodman.
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