The Canadian Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Student Essay prizes.

First prize / premier prix :
  • Juhani Yli-Vakkuri (Oxford), Epistemicism with Wordly Vagueness.
Second prizes / deuxièmes prix :
  • Margot Strohminger (St Andrews), Fundamentally A Posteriori Modal Knowledge.
  • Pierre-Yves Rochefort (Montréal), La permanence de la question du réalisme dans la pensée d'Hilary Putnam.

Previous winners

2010
  • 1st – Patrick Bondy (McMaster), Intentionality and Epistemic Justification.
  • 1st – John Mackay (Princeton), Conditionals, Mood and Binding.
2009
  • 1st – Mike Hinds (McMaster), Defining Pornography.
  • 1st – Kristina Biniek (UWO), Aristotle's Gradualism.
2008
  • 1st – Pablo Escobar (Guelph), The Motive to Suspend in Locke's Essay.
  • 2nd – Emerson Doyle (UWO), A Problem with Negative Properties in Intuitionistic Mathematics.
  • 2nd – Morgane Paris (Montréal), La théorie somatico-cognitive des émotions.
2007
  • 1st – Victor Kumar (Alberta), Knowing-How and Knowing-That.
  • 2nd – Mark Young (Ottawa), In Defence of the Liberal Perspective on Moral Education.
2006
  • 1st – Martin Godwyn (UBC), Extended Cognition and the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy.
  • 2nd – Timothy L. Brownlee (Boston U.), Hegel's Concept of Moral Evil.
  • 2nd – François Jaran-Duquette (Montréal), L'interprétation « anthropologisante » d' Être et temps.
2005
  • 1st – Helga Varden (Toronto), Kant and Dependency Relations.
  • 2nd – Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Montréal), La question de l'imagination dans les Lumières françaises : le cas de Voltaire.
  • 2nd – Shelley Weinberg (Toronto), Possible World Construction and the Paradox of Compossibility.
2004
  • 1st – Joseph Millum, A Functional Foot? .
  • 2nd – Benoît Castelnérac, Niveaux d'éducation et législation dans les Lois de Platon.
  • 2nd – Mark Capustin, Internalism and “Impulsional Evidence”.
2003
  • 1st - Mélanie Frappier, Dialectic and Heisenberg's Microscope Thought Experiment.
  • 2nd - Karen Bardsley, Seeing All Dimensions: Illusion and the Perception of Cinematic Depth.
2002
  • 1st - Travis Hreno, Jury Nullification: The Jurisprudence of a Juror's Privilege.
  • 2nd - Paul Los, Problems Concerning Belief in Russell's Epistemology.
  • 2nd - Syliane Charles, La métaphysique leibnizienne, source paradoxale de l'esthétique moderne.
2001
  • 1st - Jesus Aguilar, Agency Attribution and Control: On Dretske's Challenge to the Causal Theory of Action.
  • 2nd - Jimmy Plourde, Remarques au sujet du Tractatus et des modalités.
  • 2nd - Pierre Chételat, The Necessity of the Dialectical Development in Hegel's Logic.
2000
  • 1st - Jason Scott Robert, The Homeobox Genes in Development and Evolution: Sceptical Considerations.
  • 1st - Andrea Westlund, Selflessness and Responsibility for Self: Is Agency Compatible with Deference?.
1999
  • 1st - Paul Raymont, Are Mental Properties Causally Relevant?.
  • 2nd - Sébastien Charles, L'immatérialisme dans la littérature clandestine du siècle des Lumières.
  • 2nd - Antonia Lolordo, Probability and Skepticism about Reason in Hume's “Treatise”.
1998
  • 1st - Mark Silcox, Quinean Indeterminism: Back from the Crypt?.
  • 2nd - Sandra Lapointe, Histoire et Philosophie chez Husserl: un mariage conclu au Paradis.
  • 2nd - Kathryn Morris, Hobbe's Method of Analysis and Synthesis.
1997
  • 1st - Arthur Sullivan, Descriptive Names and the Contingent A Priori.
  • 2nd - Jean-Frédéric Lafaille, Qu'est-ce que le Pluralisme Culturel?.
  • 2nd - Blain Everett Neufield, Kymlicka and the Normative Status of Autonomy.
1996
  • 1st - Andrew Botterell, Innocence Lost: Davidsonian Semantics and Interpreted Logical Forms.
  • 2nd - Krister Bykvist, Utilitarian Ontologies: On Preference Utilitarianism and Agent-Relative Value.
  • 2nd - Luc Faucher, Explication psycho évolutionniste des émotions et constructionisme: résolution de la dichotomie.
1995
  • 1st - Emily Carson, Kant on Definitions in Mathematics.
  • 2nd - Jillian McIntosh, What Isn't Wrong with Teleological Functionalism? .
  • 2nd - Mylène Dufour, Temporalité et éthique chez Aristote.

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