First-place papers win a $200 prize; second-place, $100, compliments of The Philosophy Circle.
2013–2014 Essay Contest Winners
First Place, Philosophy
Bart L. Walker
“Keeping It Real: A Defense of Frans DeWaal”
Second Place, Philosophy
Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs
“Kantian Ethics and the Impermissibility of Placing Political Conditions On Humanitarian Aid”
Religious Studies,First Place
Abby Kulisz
“Bodily Blunders: Male Projection and the Female Body in Buddhism”
Religious Studies, Second Place
Dustin Hall
“A Discussion of Transgenderism with Buddhism”
2012-2013 Essay Contest Winners
First Place, Philosophy
SEAN GEIZER
“For the Right Price, Could You Patent the Sun?”
Second Place,Philosophy
ZAC ROBBINS
“The Claims of States to Cultural Property”
First Place, Religious Studies
ABBY KULISZ
“Sufism and Gender: The Feminine Element in Islamic Mysticism”
Second Place, Religious Studies
DUSTIN HALL
“Roots of European Antisemitism”