{"id":2179,"date":"2018-05-09T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=2179"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:26:14","slug":"e-o-ringstad-memorial-awardees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/e-o-ringstad-memorial-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"E. O. Ringstad Memorial Awardees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ringstad Memorial Prize Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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2025 Winners:
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

1st Place: Jake Magner “Rejection of the Dead Past Theory<\/em><\/a>”
\n2nd Place: Juan Carlos De Pablo Romero Villareal “Private Language and Cartesian Method of Doubt<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st Place: Daniel Severson Jr, “Metaphysical Features of the Analytic Hypothesis of Causation<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

2nd Place: Luke Bemish, “Defending non-Ersatzer Formulations of Presentism<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

2024 Winners
\nFirst Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/strong>
\n1st Place: Luke Steiner, “Existentialist Thought and the Limits of Reason in Kant\u2019s Moral Religion: Similarities to Kierkegaard<\/em>”
\n2nd Place: Shannon Breuer, “The Utilization of Falsifiability: Beyond Claims, Toward Mindset<\/em>”
\nJunior\/ Senior Category<\/strong>:
\n1st Place: Alyssa Medin, “Beyond the Bog: Epistemology Unveiling Cosmology in The Republic<\/em>”
\n2nd Place: Minh Nguyen, “Settling the Dispute: Artistic Value and Experience<\/em>”<\/p>\n

2023 Winners:
\nFirst Year\/ Sophomore Category:
\n<\/strong>1st Place: Xinyuan Zhao, “Generalism, Particularism, and the Default Approach to Conspiracy Theories”<\/em><\/a>
\nJunior\/ Senior Category:
\n<\/strong>1st Place: Ryan Carlisle, “Time Travel\u2019s Effects on Free Will<\/em><\/a>“
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n2022 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Aubrey Connett, “Ideas and Material Falsity in Descartes’ Proof of God<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Lila Graham, “Transformative Experience, Narrative, and Trans Phenomenology”<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Sean Clements, “Does Vogel’s Abductive Argument Succeed”<\/p>\n

2019 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

No prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Alexander Cavender, “To Conquer Suffering, You Only Have to Suffer: Reflections on Humility and Suffering in The Brothers Karamazov<\/a>”<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Matthew Erickson, “Who Has Knowledge?: Interrogating Aristotle’s Science and Craft Knowledge with an Anthropocentric Lens<\/a>”<\/p>\n

2018 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Mattias Kostov \u201cExistentialism and Psychology \u2013 A Brief Look at the Kierkegaadian Concept of Anxiety and the Modern Clinical Approach<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

Joint 1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Matthew Erickson \u201cThe\u00a0Problem of Extra-Rational Persuasion: Why We Must Analyze Both the Motivations We Consider Our Own, and the Ones We Do Not<\/a> \u201d<\/p>\n

Joint 1st Place<\/u>: Dempsey Olsen \u201cBrutal Academia: Foucault and Hobbes on Criminality and Punishment<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Alex Cavender \u201cAn Alternate Possibility for the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2017 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Alexander Cavender, \u201cThe Nature of Self Abandonment\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Noah Forslund, \u201cLocke and Leibniz on Innate Ideas\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Alexander Quanbeck \u201cHow to Disagree with Epistemic Superiors: Norms of Deferral and their Defeaters\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Zhaoqi Hu \u201cWithout Peer: The Defeater Strategy for Peer Disagreement\u201d<\/p>\n

2016 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Elise Steichen, \u201cThe Third Meditation and the Cartesian Circle\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Molly Doda, \u201cSpontaneous Understanding: Leibniz and the Freedom of the Intelligence\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Pedro Monque \u201cOn Truth and Logical Fatalism\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Vera Lochtefeld \u201cCharacter and Culpability: The Conditions for Moral Responsibility\u201d<\/p>\n

2015 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place: <\/u>Alexander Quanbeck, \u201cDeontic and Axiological Moral Reasons:\u00a0 A Skeptical Theist\u2019s Response to Sharon Street\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Annika Beck, \u201cWorthy of Worship: Leibniz\u2019s God and the Principle of Perfection\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place (Joint Winners):<\/u> Gregory Gianopoulos \u201cThe Experience of Reason: Western Philosophy of Personal Identity in Light of Zen Buddhism\u201d<\/p>\n

Meredith Varie, \u201cJury Education: A Justification for Epistemic Paternalism in Court Cases Involving Complex Expert Testimony<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Thomas Lambert, \u201cTwo Problems for \u201cEmpathic Access\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>2014 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Pedro Monque,<\/u> \u201cUnstrapped from the Moving Now: Temporal Perspective as an Answer to Prior\u2019s \u201cThank Goodness That\u2019s Over\u201d Argument\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place: <\/u>Gregory Gianopoulos, \u201cReid\u2019s Account of Personal Identity\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category: <\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place (Joint Winners)<\/u>: Thomas Churchill, \u201cHermeneutical Consciousness as Journalistic Virtue: Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Debate over Journalistic Objectivity:<\/p>\n

Thomas Lambert, \u201cThe Autonomy Link: Examining the Role of the Feeling of Respect in Kant\u2019s Theories of Action and Freedom\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> No award given<\/p>\n

2013 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Thomas Lambert, \u201cSelf-Cultivation: Wisdom according to Plato\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Liz Brindley, \u201cThe Art of Communication\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Michelle Frank, \u201cConstructed Knowledge: Linguistic Perception and the Active Receipt of Testimony\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Jon Erik Haines, \u201cGangsta Rap and Nietzche\u2019s Will to Power<\/em> as Art\u201d<\/p>\n

2012 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Thomas Churchill, \u201cCould \u2018what it\u2019s like\u2019 be Physical Knowledge?\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u> prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st Place: <\/u>Bjorn Wastvedt, \u201cA Dostoeyevskian Critique of Jeffrie Murphy on Resentment\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Caleb Harrison, \u201cCriteria for Personal Identity Theory\u201d<\/p>\n

2011 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Eric Teachout, \u201cHobbes and the Fundamental Principle of a Society: A Critque of the Ethical Solidarity of the Leviathan<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Emmett Larsen, \u201cIs God in Time\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Brady Post, \u201cPotholes on the Road to Kantian Salvation\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Natasha Fredericks, \u201cSelf-Love as the Basis for Friendship and Self-Sacrificial Love\u201d<\/p>\n

2010 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Patrick Behling, \u201cKant\u2019s God of the Gaps\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd Place:<\/u> James Sponsel, \u201cDescartes\u2019 Premature Victory Over Uncertainty\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Maria Squadroni, \u201cThe Truth Behind Putnam\u2019s Internalism and Devitt\u2019s Realism\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Brady Post, \u201cDefending Descartes: Objections and Replies to Cartesian Freedom\u201d<\/p>\n

2009 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Michael Smeltzer, \u201cAristotle and Rawls on Justice\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place <\/u>prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Tom Marti, \u201cThe Problem of Evil and the Dependencies of Theodicies\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Elizabeth Linn, \u201cYellow on the Outside, White on the Inside: Korean American Adoptee Identity in the Context of Judith Butler\u2019s \u2018Gender Performance Critique\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

2008 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Gil Thompson, \u201cI defense of the Nithingale: Criticisms of Nietzsche\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Joseph Christianson, \u201cA Historicist Approach to the Humean Reduction of the Law of Nature\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place (3-way tie):<\/u> Valerie Deal, \u201cPerdurance: The Only Viable Option\u201d<\/p>\n

Brett DeFries, \u201cWottgenstein and Internal Realism: A Reinterpretation of the Lectures on Religious Belief\u201d<\/p>\n

David Moon, \u201cMoral Feeling: A Means of Assuring Moral Culpability and Human Freedom\u201d<\/p>\n

2007 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Maria Squadroni, \u201cEthical Choice in Kierkegaard\u2019s Either\/Or<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Jason Smith, \u201cPlato\u2019s Republic<\/em>: From Feminism to Philosopher Kings\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Allison Quam, \u201cThe Necessity of Narrative: Hermeneutics and Moral Personhood on a Critique of the Episodic Life\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place (2-way tie):<\/u> Nathaniel T. Jopkins, \u201cThe Limits of Empathy: An Essay on Otherness\u201d and<\/p>\n

Hannah Woldum: \u201cDivine Timelessness: A Solution to the Foreknowledge\/Free Will Problem and the Firm Foundation of Practical Catholic Belief\u201d<\/p>\n

2006 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Joseph Christianson, \u201cAitia<\/em> in Plato\u2019s Phaedo<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Ross Lambrecht, \u201cKant\u2019s Categorical Imperative and the \u2018Murderer at the Door\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Jeffery J. Naragon, \u201cPhilosophy of Religious Language in the Work of Robert Neville\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Noreen Johnson, \u201cDivine Omnipotence and Divine Omniscience: A Reply to Michael Martin:<\/p>\n

2005 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Brian Jacobson, \u201cThe relation of the Finite to the Infinite in Descartes\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Cindy Wilmeth, \u201c\u2019\u2026and what am I to do about them?\u2019 Evil and the Undeserved Suffering\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Eric Reitz, \u201cNaturalizing the Nietzschean Self\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Dan Sinykin, \u201cHegel\u2019s Hopeful Dream\u201d and Erik Christopherson, \u201cSkepticism in Analytic Epistemology\u201d<\/p>\n

2004 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

No 1st<\/sup> or 2nd<\/sup> prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place<\/u>: Kathleen Ess, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a Name?: A summary and brief analysis of Naming and Necessity\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Dan Sinykin, \u201cFreedom, Illusion, and the Price of Truth\u201d<\/p>\n

2003 Winners<\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Eric Christopherson, \u201cHeidegger\u2019s Ontology: An Answer to Cartesian Skepticism\u201d and Eric Reitz, \u201cKuhn, the Paradigm of Sisyphus, and the Color Spectrum\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Carl Hughes, \u201cActualizing the Solitary Self\u201d<\/p>\n

2002 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Brigit McGuire, \u201cOn the Edge of Justice: Censorship in the Republic<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Diana Frantz, \u201cThe Problem of Evil\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Becky Nixon, \u201cPersonal Identity: The Problems with Fetuses and Corpses\u201d and Tim Nelson, \u201cStill Looking Out for Number One: An Objection to Olson\u2019s Use of Brain Fission as Support for the Parfit-Shoemaker Thesis\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Robert Grace, \u201cThe Roman Morality: Isiah Berlin and Richard Rorty on a World Divided in Two\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>2001 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Timothy Nelson, \u201cReasoning About Faith: An Analysis of Aristotle\u2019s Concept of God and its Conflicts with the God of Christiantiy\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> James Philson, \u201cA One Sided Dialogue with McTaggart: a View on Time\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Owen Schott, \u201cIrony and Dispair: Rorty and Kierkegaard\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Rebecca Nixon, \u201cTranscendent Love\u201d<\/p>\n

2000 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Robert Grace<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Nate Olsen<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Charles Grell and Thomas Hill<\/p>\n

1999 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Loran Nordgren, \u201cCathartic Therapy in Plato\u2019s Meno\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Peter Pearson, \u201cThe Ontological Argument: A True Proof of God?\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Matt Peterson, \u201cKant\u2019s Transcendental Argument: Diagrammed in Light of Casualty\u201d and Sara Leland, \u201cWittgenstein\u2019s \u2018Tractatus\u2019: Language and the Mystical\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> William Benton, \u201cA Defense of Organized Religion in Light of Kierkegaard\u2019s Criticism of the Same\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/u>1998 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Owen Schott, \u201cInevitable Life Outcomes and Genetic Testing\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Anders Hendrickson, \u201cNatural Evil and the Fall\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Jeremiah Harrelson, \u201cThe Morally Obligatory Partiality\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Susan Keeling, \u201cWittgenstein\u2019s Philosophical Investigations: The Idea of Meaning as Use\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>1997 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Anders Hendrickson, \u201cA Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished\u2026or Not?\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> R. Scott Hanrath, \u201cAn Assessment of Schopenhaur\u2019s Pessimism\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> James Powell, \u201cThe Nature of Kantian Respect in Moral Motivation and the Moral Life\u201d<\/p>\n

1996 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Eirik Gislason, \u201cDworhin\u2019s Interesting Error\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place: <\/u>Timothy Loch, \u201cKant and the Intelligibility of Morality\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Laura Mielke, \u201cProgression and Relative: Zeno\u2019s \u2018Achilles\u2019<\/p>\n

Paradox\u201d and James Bruss, \u201cKierkegaard\u2019s Indirect Communication\u201d<\/p>\n

1995 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Laura Mielke, \u201cA Response to Savile and Newman: Sentimentality, Backlash and Recovery\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Loriann L. Licke, \u201cAsk Aristotle\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Alison Gerlach, \u201cBergson\u2019s Dualism\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Rolf A. Skar, \u201cA Critique of Truth Claims: an Examination of Han\u2019s Theory of Conventionalism\u201d<\/p>\n

1994 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Christopher Wells, \u201cInterpreting Burke and Marx\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place: <\/u>Rolf Skar, \u201cThe Necessity of Evil\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place: <\/u>Jonothan Rinehart, \u201cNotionis\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Darren Jackson, \u201cWittgenstein and the Inverted-Spectrum Thought Experience\u201d and Nathaniel Moir, \u201cThe Formulation of the Romantic Period in Aesthetics and Literature\u201d<\/p>\n

1993 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Melissa Shelton, \u201cGod\u2019s Foreknowledge vs. Freedom of Thought\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Alison Gerlach, \u201cCourage and Reason: Virtue Without Fear\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Eric Kiltinen, \u201cA Wittgensteinian Illumination of Karl Barth\u2019s Fideilistic Movement\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Jon Goltz, \u201cCatch and Release: The Philosophy of Fishing for the Future\u201d<\/p>\n

1992 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Jonathan Stenseth, \u201cThe Politics of Modernity: Nietzsche and the Straussians\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Mark Pearson, \u201cEvil: The Perspectives of Sophocles and Plato\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Karen Anway, \u201cPhilosophy and Women\u2019s Stories\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Clark Flannery, \u201cDealing with Death\u201d<\/p>\n

1991 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Paul Larson, \u201cOf God and Stones: The Paradox of Omnipotence\u201d<\/p>\n

and Timothy Wonhof, \u201cMust God Create the Best?\u201d<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Mike Van Quickenborne, \u201cLove: Inclusive or Exclusive\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Dave Gottshling, \u201cHume and Moral Relativism\u201d<\/p>\n

1990 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

No prizes awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Nate Sawyer, \u201cAutonomism: A Glance by a Philosophical Physician\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Lori Pearson, \u201cLudwig Feuerbach\u2019s Turn to the Subject\u201d<\/p>\n

1989 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

No prizes awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> David Steglich, \u201cReverse Discrimination: A New and Vulnerable Theory\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> David Vessey, \u201cDoing Justice to MacIntyre\u2019s Rationality\u201d<\/p>\n

1988 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Kevin Wickman, \u201cBorn Free\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Stacia Taylor, \u201cDescartes and Human Error\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Peter Termaat, \u201cWittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Hans Eisenbeis, \u201cSubject-Object Thought in the Nineteenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n

1987 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Katheryn Schifferdecker and Timothy Westermeyer<\/p>\n

No 2nd<\/sup> place prize awarded<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place: <\/u>Cheryl Robey<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place<\/u>: Susan O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

1986 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Paul Magnuson, \u201cPlato\u2019s Utopian City\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Hans Eisenbeis, \u201cThe Theodicity of Karl Marx\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Helen Jones<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Tom Twiss<\/p>\n

1985 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/Sophomore Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Joan Schansberg and Jonathan Tweet<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> David A. Olson<\/p>\n

Junior\/Senior Category<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> place:<\/u> Barry Anderson and Mark Johnson<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> place:<\/u> Meg Fleming<\/p>\n

1984 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Mendida, Paul Davies, Helen Jones, David Olson, Mark Johnson, Erik Oasland<\/p>\n

1983 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana Fritz, Anne Hanson, and Steve Keoy<\/p>\n

1982 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave Derouf, Michael Swenson, Mark Mottes<\/p>\n

1981 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curt Feig and Lori Anderson<\/p>\n

1978 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Boyce, James Kramka, John Klein, Diane Havlir, Warren Shepard<\/p>\n

1976 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Year\/ Sophomore Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Curtis Brown, \u201cMetaphoric Meaning: A Model and Some Implications\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Mark Hulsether, \u201cForced Personality Change Under a System of Laws\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior\/ Senior Category:<\/em><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Scott T. Peterson, \u201cThe Moral Justification of Suicide\u201d<\/p>\n

1975 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Per Anderson, \u201cKaufman\u2019s Notion of God as Agent: Problems and Possibilities\u201d<\/p>\n

1974 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Robert L. Mitchell, \u201c\u2019Greater Than\u2019 and the Ontological Argument\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Place:<\/u> Steven Thomas Hanson, \u201cThe Freedom of the Individual and Restructuring a Lawbreaker\u2019s Personality\u201d<\/p>\n

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