At its annual meeting, the NCPS awards an essay prize in each of three categories: untenured professor, graduate student, and undergraduate student. Winners include:
2010
- Untenured Professor: “Sorting out the Sortals: A Fregean Argument for Essentialism”, Troy Catterson (North Georgia College and State University)
- Graduate: “What’s the Big Idea?”, Emily Kelahan (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Undergraduate: “Unjustified Veridical Memory-Belief”, William Brady (UNC Chapel Hill)
2009
- Untenured Professor: “The Propositions We Assert”, Stavroula Glezakos (Wake Forest University)
- Graduate: *
- Undergraduate: “Aquinas’s Response to Smart’s Infinite Regress of Meta-Times”, Davis Kuykendall (UNC Charlotte)
2008
- Untenured Professor: *
- “A (Practical) Paradox of Narrative Well-Being”, Clair Morrissey (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Undergraduate: “Primary Social Goods as a Vehicle for Bias in Rawls’ Theory of Justice”, Joseph LaBaw (Wake Forest University)
2007
- Untenured Professor: “Smith against the Externalists”, Robert Mabrito (NC State University)
- Graduate: *
- Undergraduate: “Biscuit Conditionals”, Mathew John Sayball (UNC Wilmington)
2006
- Untenured Professor: “Nothing is Immune to Revision”, Michael Veber (East Carolina University)
- Graduate: “Getting Back to Nature”, Leonard Kahn (Oxford University/UNC Chapel Hill)
- Undergraduate: *
2005
- Untenured Professor: “Temporal Externalism, Natural Kind Terms, and Scientifically Ignorant Communities”, John M. Collins (East Carolina University)
- Graduate: “The Possibility of Non-Artifactive Norms”, Mark Bauer (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Undergraduate: “A Discourse on Mary”, Mathew John Sayball (UNC Wilmington)
2004
- Untenured Professor: “Metaphysical Factualism: Constitution Without Identity”, Boris Kusko (Duke University)
- Graduate: “Epistemic Contextualism and Epistemic Expressivism”, Matthew Chrisman (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Undergraduate: “Wrongdoing and Forgiveness”, Douglas R. Paletta (UNC Chapel Hill)
1999
- Untenured Professor or Graduate Student: “Aristotle’s Concept of Enchantment”, Clint Corcoran (High Point University)
1998
- Untenured Professor or Graduate Student: “Kant and the Moral Structure of Friendship”, Josefine Nauckhoff (Wake Forest University)
*Due to insufficient submissions, no award was made in this category.
Prize information for 2000 – 2003 is missing. Information on this period would be welcome: please send it to one of the officers or to the webmaster.