John Alden Clark Memorial Prize

The John Alden Clark Memorial Prize is annually awarded to the Colby student whose contest essay excels in philosophical substance, creativity, and originality.
 

2005 - Chris Suprenant, Kant's Postulate of the Immortality of the Soul

2004 - Phil Scuderi, Aeschylus, Marx, & Ancient Greece:
                               A Theoretical & Literary Critique

            Chris Surprenant, A Reconciliation of Kant's Views on Revolution

2003 - Pete Osborn, Time In, Time Out, or Both: God Settles into a Relationship with Time

2002 - Briana Wright, The Balancing Act: A Response to Frankfurt
            Jason Beal, The Unnecessary Continuous Condition of Courage

2001 - Milan Babik, Political Economy and the Genre of the Novel:
           The Dehumanizing and the Humanizing Face of the Zeitgeist

2000 - Corie Washow, A Heideggerian Approach to the End of Life

1999 - Markus Johnson, Being Choosy

1998 - Brad Reichek, The Wanderer's Prayer

1997 - Katie Quackenbush, The Missing Dialogue: Finding the Philosopher

1996 - Nima Karamouz, God's Complex

1995 - John Costenbader, Uroboric Depth in Sextus Empiricus's Practical Criterion
            Caleb E. Mason, Holistic belief and Aristotelian Akrasia

1994 - Sarah Pohl, The Metaphysics of Peanuts

1993 - Joseph Terry, Nonsense is Useful (Or is that Nonsense?)

1992 - Caleb Mason, The Man Who Mistook His God For A (Very Large) Hat

1991 - Andrew Williams, Biosphere II: Contemporary Scientific Consciousness and
           the Replication of Nature

1990 - Alan Yuodsnukis, Diverse Encounters

1989 - Richard Main, Kripke on Rigid Designation

1988 - Stephen Nason, In Which Po Meets Master Pooh & They Discuss the Nature of Man

1987 - David Fearon, A Kingdom of Ends: A Tragedy in Kantian Morality

1986 - Hans Fajerson, On Imagination as a Higher Faculty

1985 - Jennifer Armstrong, On a Definition of Violence

1984 - David Larkin, Letter from Prison

1983 - Brad Livermore, The Platonic Dialectic: An Unscientific Analysis

1982 - Eugene Bernet, The Evolution of Conditioned Genesis

1981 - Diana Fuss, A Re-evaluation of the Gospels as Literature:
           Essays on Biblical Criticism, Gospel Genre, and The Gospel of Mark

1980 - Jim Lowe, The Theory of the Soul in Plato's Phaedrus

1979 - Nicholas Mencher, Social Interaction and Epictetus' Apatheia

1978 - David M. Rice, Causation and Freedom of the Will

1977 - Thomas Hearne, Self-Defense in Theory and Practice

1976 - Leon Bradbury, Quine and the Indeterminacy of Translation

1975 - Daniel H. Cohen, A Mathematical Look at Socrates' Level of Cognition