John Alden Clark Memorial Prizes
The John Alden Clark Memorial Prize is annually awarded to the Colby student whose contest essay excels in philosophical substance, creativity, and originality.
2022:
Adam Zucatti, “Understanding Humor and the Epistemology of Humorous Interactions”
2021:
Daniel Ellison, “Prometheia and epimetheia in the Protagoras”
Harry Kolb, “Indian Buddhism is not Buddhism”
2020:
Matt Menzi, “The Basis of Comedy”
2019:
Mansi Hitesh for The “Networked” Colonizer and the “Constructed” Patriarch: Mapping Haslanger onto a Latourian Landscape
2018:
Liam Butchart for Knowing, Being, Skepticism, Certainty: Towards a Stronger Understanding of Reality and Philosophy
Erin Maidman for Indexicality in and of Fictional Worlds
2017:
Gillian Morris for Existential Approaches to Diseases and Opioid Addiction
Chris Scammel for Where English Fails: Jealousy in Spinoza’s Ethics
2016:
Griffen Allen for Does the Noumenal Person Suffer?
Rose Nelson for Addicted to Irony: Infinite, Jest, Kierkegaard, and Irony
2015:
Shelby O’Neill for Privilege, Bad Faith, and the Question of Action
2014:
Uzoma Orchingwa for In the Name of Profit
Kelsey Park for That’s Hilarious! Or not. The Implications of Self-deprecating Humor on Well-Being
2013:
Katrina Belle for Is Romantic Love a Delusion?
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
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 Courage2001 – 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 for Being 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 Terry for Nonsense is Useful (Or is that Nonsense?)
1992:
Caleb Mason for The Man Who Mistook His God For A (Very Large) Hat
1991:
Andrew Williams for Biosphere II: Contemporary Scientific Consciousness and the Replication of Nature
1990:
Alan Yuodsnukis for Diverse 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