At the end of each academic year, the Philosophy Department awards the Jonathan Edwards prize for the best essay by an undergraduate philosophy major, among those nominated by philosophy department instructors. If you have an essay you would like considered, contact your instructor about nominating it.

2009-2010

1st Prize, $50 each

Michael Demo
"Cartesian Trialism and Mind-Body Interactionism"

Nicholas Helpa
"Are Moral Reasons Practical?"

Robert Muckle
"Properties, Propositions, and Weak Global Supervenience as a Dependence Relation"

2008-2009

not awarded

2007-2008

1st Prize, $100
Annalee Locke
"Agency and Action"

2006-2007

1st Prize, $100
 Timothy Prisk
"Aristotle on Friendship"

2005-2006

1st Prize, $50 each

Timothy Prisk
"Shifting the Begriffsschrift:  Reconstructing Frege's Logicism in Relevant Logic"

Byron Wallace
"Responses to the 'Fine-Tuning' Argument"

Byron Simmons
"Poincare Variations"

2004-2005

1st Prize, $100
Paul Dubois
"In Defense of Exaggeration"

2nd Prize, $50
Jeremy Browne
"St. Augustine, The Problem of Evil, and William Shakespeare"

2003-2004

1st Prize, $100
Christopher Nason
“Russellian Responses to Kripkean objections to the theory of definite descriptions”

2nd Prize, $50.00:
Paul DuBois
“Anselm's Devil”

2nd Prize, $50
Jesse Kushin
“Eminent Containment in Descartes' Theory of Causation”

2nd Prize, $50
Kiera Manikoff
“Mind-Body Interaction, Descartes' Causal Principles, and the Third Substance Theory”

2002-2003

1st Prize, $100
Thomas Kushin
“The Kalam Cosmological Argument of Al-Ghazali”

1st Prize, $100
Krista Meyer
“Augustine’s Account of Signification”