Previous Faculty Essay Prize Winners
Non-tenured Professor, Lecture, Sessional Essay Prize
Authors with a completed PhD who are either pre-tenure (tenure-stream) or non-tenured
• 2021— (tied) Landon D. C. Elkind (Alberta), “Principia's logic as conceptual engineering”
Hasko von Kriegstein (TMU), “Perfectionism, Knowledge, and Achievement”
• 2020 — Devlin Russell (York University), “The Myth of a State of Intending”
• 2019 — Epstein, Peter (Cambridge), "A Priori Concepts in Euclidean Proof"
• 2018 — Epstein, Peter (Cambridge), "A Priori Concepts in Euclidean Proof"
• 2017 — Côté-Bouchard, Charles (Rutgers), "Is Epistemic Normativity Value-based?"
• 2016 — Alida Liberman (Western), "Understanding Vows"
• 2015 — Howard Nye (Alberta), "The Value of Neutral Experience"
• 2014 — Susan Dieleman (Dalhousie), "Meeting Philosophy's Demographic Challenges"
• 2013 — David Bourget (Western), "Representationalism and Perceptual Distortion"
• 2012 — Allen Habib (Calgary), "Sharing the Earth, by Parts and by Turns"
Tenured Professor Essay Prize
Authors with a completed PhD who have been awarded tenure.
• 2021 — John Hacker-Wright (Guelph), “Phronesis and Contemplation”
• 2020 — Christopher Byrne ( St.FX), “Aristotle and Scientific Experiments”
Georges Moyal (York), « La disparition des formes aristotéliciennes - à propos d’une démarche clandestine dans les Méditations »
• 2019 — Tim Kenyon (Brock), "Peer idealization, internal examples, and the meta-philosophy of genius in the epistemology of disagreement"
• 2018 — McIver Lopes, Dominic (UBC), "Aesthetic Value Naturalism"
• 2017 — Brown, Bryson (Lethbridge), "Paraconsistency, Pluralistic Models and Reasoning in Climate Science"
• 2016 — Peter Alward (Saskatchewan), "Cliffhangers and Sequels: A Limited Defense of Authorial Intentions as Narrative Truth-makers"
• 2015 — Kent Peacock (Lethbridge), "Reticence, Responsibility, and Climate Science: Why Climate Scientists Sometimes Need to Think Like Emergency Room Doctors"
• 2014 — Violetta Igneski (McMaster), "The Human Right to Subsistence and the Collective Duty to Aid"
• 2013 — Dea, Shannon (Waterloo), "A Harm Reduction Approach to Abortion"
• 2012 — Sandra Lapointe (McMaster), "Bolzano, Leibniz and Kant"