JONATHAN EDWARDS
ESSAY PRIZE

The Philosophy Department at
UMass Amherst
is pleased to announce an essay contest for

UNDERGRADUATE
 PHILOSOPHY MAJORS

Papers in all areas of philosophy are welcome.  Papers that have been
submitted in courses are eligible, as well as papers written specifically
 for this contest.

PRIZE: $100

Suggested length: 6 to 15 pages, double spaced
Submission: Papers, in triplicate, are due in the
Philosophy Department Office
by
 Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Please do not put your name on the paper itself, but submit an extra sheet with the title of your paper and your name on it.  Papers will be judged anonymously.  Papers may be hand delivered or mailed to Beth Grybko,
Philosophy Department, 352 Bartlett Hall, UMass Amherst,  MA  01003-9269.

Prize Committee:
Joseph Levine, Lynne Baker, Pete Graham

2006-2007

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

2005-2006

1st Prize, $50
Timothy Prisk
"Shifting the Begriffsschrift:  Reconstructing Frege's Logicism in Relevant Logic"

1st Prize, $50
Byron Wallace
"Responses to the 'Fine-Tuning' Argument"

1st Prize, $50
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”