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The Tony Chadwick Essay Prize


Dr Tony Chadwick, who died in January 1991, founded the Philosophical Society in 1973. He was Staff Tutor in Philosophy at the now named Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) which is based at Rewley House, Oxford. His family would like to encourage students of Philosophy who are connected with the traditional work of Rewley House.

An Essay Prize of £150 is awarded annually for the best essay from any member of the Philosophical Society, any Rewley House student of any day, evening, weekend or Summer school classes, or any students of philosophy groups who have connections with the Philosophical Society.

In addition to the £150, the prize includes a free philosophy weekend of the winner's choice (excluding accommodation charges).

There is a £75 prize for the runner-up (again, plus free weekend fees). This prize is known as the Boethius Prize. There is a £25 prize for the best essay written by someone whose age is less than 30. This is aimed at encouraging young philosophers. This prize is known as the Lyceum Prize.

Essays can be sent as either hard copy or email, to arrive not later than 1st July. For details (including eligibility criteria) and for some advisory guidelines, please see the Chadwick Prize Rules.

Please add a separate cover sheet, with your name and contact information, plus details of how you qualify to enter this competition (e.g. membership of the Society, or which class you have attended), and a signed statement saying "This essay is entirely my own original work".


Below you can download in Adobe Acrobat format the essays of all the winners and runners-up since the competition began in 1993.

Tony Chadwick Prize Winners and Runners up
(If you think the same names keep reappearing, then you owe it to yourself to enter!)

2010 Winner: Mike Arnautov
Befriending the Liar Paradox
2010 Runner up: none
No prize awarded
2009 Winner: Christian Michel
The Liar Paradox Outside-In
2009 Runner up: Oliver Bridle
Is food not art because it is not expressive, not representational and incapable of interpretation?
2008 Winner: Christian Michel
Why Truth Trackers Do Not Need to Reject Epistemic Closure
2008 Runner up: Brenda Johnson
Does American Psycho Succeed Aesthetically and Morally for the Same Reasons?
2007 Winner: Michael Donnan
Rawl's Notion of Overlapping Consensus
2007 Runner up: Brenda Johnson
Can We Have Absolute Moral Obligations Towards the Environment?
2006 Winner: Eileen Walker
Can We Save 'Qualia'? (Thomas Nagel and the 'Psychophysical Nexus')
2006 Runner up: Brenda Johnson
Is there an Error Involved in the Way in Which we Typically Attribute Colour Properties to Objects?
2005 Winner: Frank Brierley
The Duplicity of the Transcendental Object
2005 Runner up: Phil Rees
The Post-Modern Critique of Science
2004 Winner: Frank Brierley
Are Ethical Principles Wholly Subjective, Founded Simply on Emotion?
2004 Runner up: Geoff Oliver
The Shape of Multicoloured Water
2003 Winner: Peter Gibson
Responsible Brains
2003 Runner up: Naomi Goulder
The Causality of the Will in Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
2002 Winner: none
No prize awarded
2002 Runner up: none
No prize awarded
2001 Winner: Phil Rees
Nature Versus Nurture: Locke on Innate Ideas
2001 Runner up: Geoff Oliver
As Free as Can Be
2000 Winner: Eileen Walker
In Two Minds?
2000 Runner up: Trevor Pitts
Determinism, Indeterminism, Evolution and Free Will
1999 Winner: Phil Rees
The Mind Is Not the Brain: the Irreducibility of the Mental
1999 Runner up: Trevor Pitts
Quantum Teleology and the Origin of the Universe
1998 Winner: Trevor Pitts
Quantum Reality
1998 Runner up: Verna Muitt
The Janus Nature of Time
1997 Winner: Alan Bailey
Philosophy of Mind - a 50s View of the 90s
1997 Runner up: Cedric Wisbey
Concerning Infinity
1996 Winner: Colin Hannaford
A THESIS: That the Development of a Rational, Innovative Society, Internally Harmonious and Tolerant of Dissent, Depends on Understanding the Original Connection between Mathematics and Democracy
1996 Runner up: Pamela Barlow
In Search of Thomas Hobbes, the Man
1995 Winner: Peter Gibson
Stamping on Flowers
1995 Runner up: none
No prize awarded
1994 Winner: Pamela Barlow
Pioneer Russian Philosophers
1994 Runner up: Catherine Walton
To Be a Philosopher-King...
1993 Winner: Ronald Cretchley
Through the Looking Glass
1993 Runner up: Peter Lloyd
Is the Mind Physical? Dissecting Conscious Brain Tissue

 


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