"Mazviita Chirimuuta, senior lecturer in philosophy at Edinburgh University, was honoured for her book The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press: 2024). Chirimuuta specialises in the philosophy of perception, philosophy of neuroscience, and history of the mind/brain sciences. Sponsored by the Latsis Foundation, the Lakatos Award, which comes with a £10,000 cash contribution, is an annual prize given to a candidate who has made significant contributions to the philosophy of science."
"The book, which already won Chirimuuta the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy last year, was praised as "an outstanding example of the kind of work being done at the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy of science, combining detailed attention to the science and its history with interesting and important implications for philosophy more widely." One selector said that"
Mazviita Chirimuuta, senior lecturer at Edinburgh University, won the 2025 Lakatos Award for The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience. The Lakatos Award is sponsored by the Latsis Foundation and includes a £10,000 cash prize. The book previously won the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy and links detailed historical and scientific analysis to broader implications for philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of biology. Selectors described the work as an outstanding example of cutting-edge philosophy of science. A separate Nature study argues that large language models could improve access to philosophical counselling while raising concerns about their use in human-centred contexts.
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