Year Category Place Recipient Title

2016-17 Research 1st Topher Lutz

2015-16 Research 1st Tyler DeMunbrun

2014-15 Research 1st Colin Bodayle The Insurrection of Concupiscence: A Critical Reading of Augustine's Pear Thef

2013-14 Creative/Original 1st Sean Della Croce

2013-2014 Research 1st Abigail Marchese

2012-13 Research 1st Allison Griffey

2012-13 Research 2nd Mackenzie Foster

2011-12 Research 1st Kent Toalson

2011-12 Research 2nd Elli Whiteway

2010-11 Creative/Original 1st Matthew Lefavor 2010-11 Creative/Original 2nd Brain York

2010-11 Research 1st Bethany Somma

2010-11 Research 2nd Nathan Stabenfeldt

2009-10 Contemporary Phil 1st Bethany Somma

2009-10 Contemporary Phil 2nd Ian Chapman

2009-10 Ancient/Medieval Phil 1st Matthew Lefavor

2009-10 Ancient/Medieval Phil 2nd Brian York

2008-09 Creative/Original 1st Ben Bryan

2008-09 Research 2nd Dominique Roy

2008-09 Research 2nd Keith Johnson

2007-08 Research 1st James McLendon

2007-08 Creative/Original 1st Norma McCook

2007-08 Creative/Original 2nd Cody Badaracca

2006-07 Research 1st Stephen Strother

2006-07 Research 2nd Geoff Elkins

2006-07 Creative/Original 1st Eric Detweller

2006-07 Creative/Original 2nd Brian Militana

2005-06 Creative/Original 1st Eric Detweller

2005-06 Creative/Original 2nd Trevor Terndrup

2005-06 Research 1st Joshua Wolak

2005-06 Research 2nd Daniel DeHaan

The Cat and the Desperate Aesthetic

The Great Gatsby as a Self-Stylized Existential Hero

The Phenomenon of Forgetfulness

The Absence of Essentialism

Socrates as Prophet, Plato as Priest

Joseph Owen's Account of Cognitional Being and the Ontological Status of Unreal Objects

Plato and Vedanta: the Necessary Bond Between Metaphysics and Ethics

"Existentialism, Aristotle, and Popular Pyschology"

The Broken Golden Triangle: Jackson's Undermining of Kripke's Two Dimensionalism Breakthrough

Decay in Plato's Philosophy

Apes and Moral Duty

Heraclitus, the Logos and Justice

Aristotle's Criticism of the Pluralists Empedocles and Anaxagoras

A Return to 'Kripkenstein': Skepticism, Rules, and Paradox

The Just Life in Relation to Sparta

Of Philosophers, Poets, and Brothers: Finding a Place for Dostoevsky in the Republic of Plato

Stacy Awalt Essay Award Competition Award Winners

On Mirror Neurons and Their Possible Applicability to Philosophy of Mind

The Utility of Faith in Love: A Philosophical Perspective on Blue is the Warmest Color

Progress in the Hands of Neuroscientists

Confucian Li as Common Sense and Action in Arendt

Heraclitus Calls for Man to Wake Up"

Interpreting Lao Tzu through the (Tao Te) I Ching

The Ethics of Health and Relationship in Feminism and Agrarianism

Gorgias' On Not-Being and the Philosophical Context of Plato's SophistThree Criticisms of Schopenhauer and a Response from the Advaita Vedantins

Pre-Saul Motion in Timaeus 30a

The Face to Face Encounter

A Phenomenological Critique of the Ferge-Russell Theory of Language

Nietzsche and Solitude

Poetry, Sophistry and Philosophy: Critiquing the Poets in Plato's Republic

2004-05 Research 1st Eric Wilkey

2004-05 Research 2nd Travis Holloway

2004-05 Creative/Original 1st Joshua Wolak

2004-05 Creative/Original 2nd Kyle Zwiep

2003-04 Creative/Original 2nd Eric Wilkey

2003-04 Creative/Original 1st Kyle Zwiep

2003-04 Research 1st Jacob Grimm

2003-04 Research 2nd Travis Holloway

2002-03 Creative/Original 1st Matt Stone

2002-03 Creative/Original 2nd Jacob Grimm

2002-03 Creative/Original 3rd Ted Fox

2002-03 Research 1st Jason King

2001-02 Research 1st Laura Stewart

2001-02 Research 2nd Rachel Tanner-Smith

2000-01 Creative/Original 1st Mancy Pendergrass

2000-01 Creative/Original 1st Micah Stover

2000-01 Research 1st Erin Cline

2000-01 Research 2nd John Shahan

1999-00 Research 1st Erin Cline

1999-00 Creative/Original 1st Kristina Anders

1999-00 Creative/Original 2nd Bess Harrell

1999-00 Creative/Original 3rd Dana Wright

1998-99 Research 1st John Warner

1998-99 Research 2nd Robert Hall

1998-99 Creative/Original 1st Matthew Sterling

1998-99 Creative/Original 2nd Charles Ives

1997-98 Research 1st Rafia Zakaria

1997-98 Research 2nd Kim Hunter

1997-98 Research 3rd Charles Ives

1996-97 Research 1st Rafia Zakaria

1996-97 Research 2nd Jeb Gerth

1996-97 Research 3rd Adriel Herring Was Hitler Happy?

Apatheia in Stoic Philosophy

Return to Paradise: Erratic Human Nature and Existential Choice

Self, Community and Moral in the Age of Context: A Communitarian Critique of Individualism

The Believing Skeptic: Hume's Argument for Religious Faith in Dialiogues Concerning Natural Religion

No Escape

The Gettier Problem

Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism

Fear and Trembling: Kierkegaard's Search for Peace

A Proposal for a Lockean Aesthetic Theory

Plato's 'Ion': Treading the Boundaries Between Poetry and Philosophy

The Artist as Philosopher: Can Philosophy Be A Good Story?

Differences in Method in Socrates and Mr. Keating in Dead Poet's Society

In Defense of Crito

Subtle Influence: The Impact of Existentialism on Popular Culture

The Philosophy of Camus in The Stranger

A Confession Concerning Life Prospects and a Fair Proposal

Kierkegaard: A Fairytale of Himself

Selves in Transition: Moral Development in Kierkegaard, Kohlberg and Confucius

Faith and Reason in Action: Abraham, Kierkegaard, and Incommensurability

In a World of Shadows…We Gravitate Towards Light

Why the Language Instinct is a Private Language

Concerning the Relationship between Language and Morality

What is a Rule? An Analysis of Rules and Music in Wittgensteinian Thouht

The Ethic of Ethics

Hegel and Heraclitus: Becoming and the Truth of the Whole

Heidegger/Asian Thought

Autochtony

Am I Sure You Understand?

John, the Epitomical Example

The Detective and Aristotle's Friendship

Vino Veritas