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Matchette Winners

Undergraduate

2006-2007

Galen Barry
"Gadamer on Meaning & Relativism."

2004-2005

Jonathan Bowen
"The Moral Character of Human Nature in Confucian Thought."

2003-2004

Jason Jordan
"Objects of Thought and the Objects of Perception: A Thematic Analysis of Frege and Merleau-Ponty"

2002-2003

Eric Grey
"Nietzsche and Egalitarianism"

2001-2002

Kyla Frick
"Should Hospice Support Physician-Assisted Suicide"

2000-2001

Mark Gardner
"Language and Reality"

1999-2000

Kim Daley
"The Origins and Implications of Patriarchy in the Christian Tradition"

John Tanner Wilson
"A Moral Defense of the Creation and Use of Transgenic Animals"

1998-1999

Alec Maki
"Gyges: A Lost Dialogue"

1997-1998

Lisa Blasch
"Marcuse's Modern Marxism: Utopia for the Twentieth Century"

1996-1997

David Anderson
"Herschel's Radical Amazement"

1995-1996

Christian Kaltwasser
"In Defense of Decartes' Malin Genie Hypothesis"

Susan Prock -Outstanding Student

1994-1995

Troy Witherrite
"Kant's Theory of Freedom: Beck's and Meerbote's Revisionary Interpretations"

Susan Prock -Outstanding Student
Richard Mallery- Outstanding Student

1993-1994

Carol J. Hansen
"Maya in Advaita Vendanta"

Carol J. Hansen -Outstanding Student
Joseph W. McCormick- Outstanding Student

1992-1993

Adam Lund
"On Locke's Theory of Personal Identity"

Micky Jo Shields -Outstanding Student

1991-1992

Greg Hull
"The Necessity of Inherent Value in the Establishment of a Holistic Land Ethic"

Robert Cook -Outstanding Student

1990-1991

No paper award this year.

Debra Vogt -Outstanding Student
Cheri Vail -Outstanding Student

1989-1990

James Ciarainitara
"The Many Faces of Socrates"

James Weider -Outstanding Student

1988-1989

John Christian
"Hume's Mathematics"

Brent Siela
"Leopold's Land Ethic, Holism & Intrinsic Value"

Tina Chartraw -Outstanding Student

 

1987-1988

David Christenson
Title of essay unavailable now.

Barbara Burk
Title of essay unavailable now.

Keith Becker -Outstanding Student

1986-1987

Barbara Burk
Title of essay unavailable now.

1985-1986

Greg Johnson
"Teleology and Value in the Metaethics of Aristotle and Ayn Rand"

Garr Reynolds -Outstanding student

 

1984-1985

Greg Johnson
"An Argument for Active Euthanasia: The Quest for Self-Determination"

Marilyn Newcom -Outstanding student

1983-1984

David Pierce
"Hume's Conception of Personal Identity (Or an Enquiry Concerning Understanding Hume)"

William Pierce -Outstanding student

1982-1983

Fred Child
Title of essay not available now.

Dann Barnard -Outstanding student

1981-1982

Arthur Dingle
"Ataraxia for Everyone: The Ethics of Epicurus"

Michael Huff -Outstanding student

1980-1981

Scott Stevenson
"Rights in the Marketplace"

Mark Olson
"The Perfect Society Would Not Include Man or Man Is the Perfect Society"

1979-1980

Cheryl Adams
"A Need for Reflection"

David Weber
"Form and Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"

1978-1979

Michael Hurley
"David Hume Him'Self'"

1977-1978

Jeff Smith
"A Short Critique of the Frankfurt School"

John Quiring
"An Argument for God"