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Nick Bostrom
  • Bostrom, N. (2010), Special reprint of “The Simulation Argument”. The Philosophers’ Magazine. “Ideas of the Century” Special Issue 50, (2010) 
  • Bostrom, N. (2010), The paper “Anthropic Shadow: Observation Selection Effects and Human Extinction Risks” named one of the 2010 Best Papers for Risk Analysis, as nominated by Area Editors (originally published in Risk Analysis Vol. 30, No. 10 (2010): pp. 1495-1506, w/ Milan Cirkovic and Anders Sandberg)

Foreign Policy magazine logo Nick Bostrom was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in a special issue of Foreign Policy Magazine,“the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was”. (December 2009)

  • Bostrom, N. (2009), Winner of the inaugural 2009 Eugene R. Gannon Jr. Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement.  One person is selected annually from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, or and the natural sciences based “on criteria of integrity, ingenuity, professional recognition, and significance to the future of humanity” to “honor those who commit their lives to the betterment of humanity through creative or academic means”.
  • Bostrom, N. (2009), The paper "The Mysteries of Self-Locating Belief and Anthropic Reasoning" chosen for inclusion in All We Need is a Paradigm:  Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic, ed. S. Phineas Upham, (Chicago:  Open Court).  A selection of some of the best papers published in the Harvard Review of Philosophy, Bostrom, N.,  Honorary Fellow (University of St Gallen & World Demographic Association),
  • Bostrom, N. (2009), Named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2009,“the 100 minds that mattered most in the year that was”. (December)
  • Bostrom, N. (2008), "The New Stars Of Science" Nick Bostrom has been invited to contribute an essay for a new book project, "The New Stars Of Science" (working title), rights to which have been sold to Vintage Books for publication in 2008. Foreign rights (to date) have been acquired  by S. Fisher Verlag (Germany),  RBA Libros (Spain), and Het Spektrum (The Netherlands), edited by Max Brockman, who says "To come up with an invitation list appropriate to the goals of the book I asked a number of leading third culture scientists/authors to recommend the top young people in their respective fields (i.e. "who, among the young generation of scientists is most likely to turn out to be the next James Watson/Stephen Jay Gould/Martin Rees?"
  • Bostrom, N. (2008), The Cambridge Blue Book, 2nd Edition,
  • Bostrom, N. (2008), Awarded title of Professor of Applied Ethics in Oxford University's recognition of distinction exercise,
  • Bostrom, N. (2008), Named as one of 50 visionaries who are changing the world, "a group of brilliant idealists and bright thinkers" from around the world, featured in the 150 year anniversary edition of the Utne Reader, Bostrom, N., (2006), The Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker of 2006, Stanford University. "Since 1991, the Symbolic Systems Program has annually hosted special lectures by speakers who have made distinguished contributions to the theory or applications of symbolic systems".  Previous Distinguished Speakers have been Daniel Kahneman, Michael Gazzaniga, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Steven Pinker, and others.,
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), “In Defense of Posthuman Dignity”, chosen for inclusion in an anthology of the best Bioethics papers published in the last two decades: The Bioethics Reader: Editors' Choice, eds. Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem A. Landman, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) [originally published Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2005): pp. 202-214.]
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), The 11th Annual JUS Lecture. Nick Bostrom is to deliver the lecture at the University of Toronto, 2007.  This lecture is delivered by "an internationally recognized major contributor to the advancement of genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry and its ethical implications".  Previous speakers have included James D. Watson, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Anne Young, and Floyd Bloom,
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), “My Challenges for the next 15 years” Featured speaker at the Second Annual Global Creative Leadership Summit - “a unique platform for the best minds of our generation”, organized by LTB Foundation with support from the UN Fund for International Partnerships, (New York City, 23-25 September),
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), Palgrave McMillan Publishing is preparing a series of edited books of philosophy-related work, intended as “a showcase for original work from the best of the new generation of philosophers”, Dr. Bostrom has been invited to contribute to this series - not one, but three chapters.,
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), Marquis Who’s Who in the World (24th Edition, 2007),
  • Bostrom, N. (2007), Dictionary of International Biography (34th Edition, 2007),
Guy Kahane
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics (from May 2011)
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Oxford University Press 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: The Wellcome Trust
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: The Leverhulme Trust 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Polity Press 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Cognition 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Mind and Language 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Bioethics 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: The Journal of Ethics 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: The Journal of Applied Philosophy 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Neuroethics 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: ResPublica 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 
  • Kahane, G. (2011), Referee: Dutch Council for the Humanities 
  • Kahane, G. (2009-2014), Wellcome Trust University Award, The Wellcome Trust, "Well-being, Consciousness, and Moral Decision-Making", £190,000,
  • Kahane, G. (2008), Merit Award: Oxford University (Humanities Division),
  • Kahane, G. (2007-2009), Fulford Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College,
  • Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J., (2007), John Fell OUP Research Fund: awarded major research grant for a two-year project on neuroethics,
  • Kahane, G. (2007), Research Member, Exeter College, Oxford,
  • Kahane, G., Shackel, N. and Wiech, K., (2007), Fudacao Bial Research Grant, awarded major research grant for an fMRI study of moral judgement,
Eric Mandelbaum
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2010-2011), Referee: Mind
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2011), ACLS New Faculty Fellowship (total award value: $106,500 over two years.  International fellowship awarded to 65 candidates within three years of receiving their PhD across all disciplines)
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2011), Robert J Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science. Inaugural Dissertation Prize given out to best dissertation in the past 2 years in interdisciplinary cognitive science. 5 awards given (total value $10,000)
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2011), Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Fellowship (1 Award given annually; award value: $45,000)
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2011), Referee: British Journal of the Philosophy of Science
  • Mandelbaum, E. (2011), Referee: Theoria
Toby Ord