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Cardinal Mercier Prize | |
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Awarded for | Philosophy |
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Currently held by | Fabien Muller |
The Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy is a prize given to recognize the recipients' contribution to international philosophy in the fields of metaphysics and ontology.[1] It is awarded jointly by the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain and the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven.[2] The prize is named after the theologian Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier and has been won by Fulton J. Sheen in 1923,[3] John F. Wippel in 1981,[4] Nicholas Rescher in 2005, William Simpson in 2021,[2] and Fabien Muller in 2023.[5]