John Alden Clark Memorial Prize
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The John Alden Clark Memorial Prize is annually awarded to the Colby student whose contest essay excels in philosophical substance, creativity, and originality. 2012 – Alexander A. Barron for Wittgenstein and Formalism Alexander L. Forsythe for Bergson, Art, and the Spectrum of Analysis and Intellectual Sympathy 2011 – Caitlin Vance for How Can Works of Fiction Have Meaning? 2010 – Sei Harris for Tractatus 3.1432 2009 – Kris Miranda for Ethics of the Badass and the Beautiful 2008 – Will Price for Das-sein in Love: Embodiment and Being-With and Andrew Jurschak Literature in Africa:Revelation and Instigation 2007 – Claudine Davidshofer for Marxism and Morality: Dissolving the Paradox 2006 – Eric Richmond for Why We Are Not Obligated to Maintain Open Borders 2005 – Chris Surprenant for Kant’s Postulate of the Immortality of the Soul 2004 – Phil Scuderi for Aeschylus, Marx, and Ancient Greece: A Theoretical and Literary Critique Chris Surprenant, A Reconciliation of Kant’s Views on Revolution2003 – Pete Osborn for Time In, Time Out, or Both: God Settles into a Relationship with Time. 2002 – Briana Wright for The Balancing Act: A Response to Frankfurt’s “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” Jason Beal for The Unnecessary Continuous Condition of Courage 2001 – Milan Babik for Political Economy and the Genre of the Novel: The Dehumanizing and the Humanizing Face of The Zeitgeist 2000 – Corie Washow for A Heideggerian Approach to the End of Life 1999 – Markus Johnson forBeing Choosy 1998 – Brad Reichek forThe Wanderer’s Prayer 1997 – Katie Quackenbush for The Missing Dialogue: Finding The Philosopher 1996 – Nima Karamouz for God's Complex 1995 – John Costenbader for Uroboric Depth in Sextus Empiricus's Practical Criterion Caleb Mason For Holistic Belief and Aristotelian Akrasia 1994 – Sarah Pohl for The Metaphysics of Peanuts 1993 – Joseph Terryfor Nonsense is Useful (Or is that Nonsense?) 1992 – Caleb Mason forThe Man Who Mistook His God For A (Very Large) Hat 1991 – Andrew Williams forBiosphere II: Contemporary Scientific Consciousness and the Replication of Nature 1990 – Alan Yuodsnukis forDiverse Encounters… 1989 – Richard Main for Kripke on rigid designation. 1988 – Stephen Nason for In Which Po Meets Master Pooh and They Discuss the Nature of Man 1987 – David Fearon for A Kingdom of Ends: A Tragedy in Kantian Morality 1986 – Hans Fajerson for On Imagination as a Higher Faculty 1985 – Jennifer Armstrong for On a Definition of Violence 1984 – David Larkin for Letter from Prison 1983 – Brad Livermore for The Platonic Dialectic: An Unscientific Analysis 1982 – Eugene Bernet for The Evolution of Conditioned Genesis 1981 – Diana Fuss for A Re-evaluation of the Gospels as Literature: Essays on Biblical Criticism, GospelGenre, and The Gospel of Mark 1980 – Jim Lowe for The Theory of the Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus 1979 – Nicholas Mencher for Social Interaction and Epictetus’ Apatheia 1978 – David M. Rice for Causation and Freedom of the Will 1977 – Thomas Hearne for Self-Defense in Theory and Practice 1976 – Leon Bradbury for Quine and the Indeterminacy of Translation 1975 – Daniel H. Cohen for The Divided Line: A Mathematical Look at Socrates’ Levels of Cognition |