Prizes:
First prize: $250
Second prize: $150
Third prize: $100
Rules:
- Competition restricted to papers submitted to a Philosophy professor at IUP.
- Papers must be typed, at least six double-spaced pages in length, and written in standard font with standard margins.
- Paper must be prepared for blind review by removing all identifying remarks (including author’s name), and by providing a detachable cover sheet with author’s name, e-mail address, and the paper’s title.
- All submissions must include a bibliography.
- Papers submitted during a previous competition should not be submitted again.
- To be judged not only on philosophical content and the quality of critical arguments, but also in style and composition.
- To be judged by a panel of Philosophy faculty members.
- Award winners will provide copies of their winning essays to Howard Z. Fitzgerald.
2012 Winners
First place: Christian Minich, “Ceteris Paribus: The War Over the Constants of Immortality”
Second place: Sophia Hosterman, “Between a Diamond and a Hard Place: Interpreting the Tractatus”
Third place: Leah Keller, “Closed Due to Cognition: Colin McGinn’s Theory of Cognitive Closure”
2011 Winners
First prize: Christian Minich, “Navigating Charybdis and Scylla: Mulligan and Heil's Account of Relations”
Second prize: Chaz McCown, “Nietzsche's Metaphysiological Aesthetics in The Birth of Tragedy”
Third prize: Sophia Hosterman, “Establishing the Untenability of Scientific Realism”
2010 Winners
First prize: Ronald Radzai, “Interpretive Method and Hume's Appendix Retration in theTreatise”
Second prize: Christian Minich, “Deficiency of Forms: Superiority of the Exact Property View in the Phaedo”
Third prize: Charles McCown, “Relations—All In Your Head?”
2009 Winners
First prize: Tommy Hanauer, “Contra Scientific Realism”
Second prize: Carole Walker, “The Akratic Shoe-Shopper: Can We Knowingly Choose What is Bad for Us?”
Third prize: Jason Patton, “Free Will”
