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Essay prizes for 2007-2008

Best Graduate Student Essay: "A (Practical) Paradox of Narrative Well-Being"
Clair Morrissey (UNC Chapel Hill)

Best Undergraduate Essay: "Primary Social Goods as a Vehicle for Bias in Rawls' Theory of Justice"
Joseph LaBaw (Wake Forest University)

Due to insufficient submissions, no Best Untenured Professor Essay award was made this year.

Essay prizes for 2006-2007

Best Untenured Faculty Essay: "Smith against the Externalists"
Robert Mabrito (NC State University)

Best Undergraduate Essay: "Biscuit Conditionals"
Mathew John Sayball (UNC Wilmington)

Due to insufficient submissions, no Best Graduate Student Essay award was made this year.

Essay prizes for 2005-2006

Best Untenured Faculty Essay: "Nothing is Immune to Revision"
Michael Veber (East Carolina University)

Best Graduate Student Essay: "Getting Back to Nature"
Leonard Kahn (Oxford University/UNC Chapel Hill)

Due to insufficient submissions, no Best Undergraduate Essay award was made this year.

Essay prizes for 2004-2005

Best Untenured Faculty Essay: "Temporal Externalism, Natural Kind Terms, and Scientifically Ignorant Communities"
John M. Collins (East Carolina University)

Best Graduate Student Essay: "The Possibility of Non-Artifactive Norms"
Mark Bauer (UNC Chapel Hill)

Best Undergraduate Essay: "A Discourse on Mary"
Mathew John Sayball (UNC Wilmington)

Essay prizes for 2003-2004

Best Untenured Faculty Essay: "Metaphysical Factualism & Constitution Without Identity"
Boris Kusko (Duke University)

Best Graduate Student Essay: "Epistemic Contextualism and Epistemic Expressivism"
Matthew Chrisman (UNC Chapel Hill)

Best Undergraduate Essay: "Wrongdoing and Forgiveness"
Douglas R. Paletta (UNC Chapel Hill)

Prize information for the period prior to 2003-2004 is very incomplete. Information about prizes from this period would be welcome.

Essay prize for 1999

"Aristotle's Concept of Enchantment"
Clint Corcoran (High Point University)

Essay prize for 1998

Best Essay by an Assistant Professor or Graduate Student: "Kant and the Moral Structure of Friendship"
Josefine Nauckhoff (Wake Forest University)

 

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