Postgraduate Essay Prize
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For the seventeenth year running, Res Publica will be awarding a prize for the best paper submitted by a current or recent postgraduate student in 2022. This may be in any area of moral, legal, social or political philosophy. Entries should conform to the normal requirements for submissions - please see www.springer.com/11158 for details.
We invite entries from both current postgraduate students and those who were awarded their PhD (i.e., passed their viva) no earlier than 1 May 2021 (the prize winner may be asked to provide proof of their current or recent postgraduate status). All entries must be received by 1 April 2022. The winner will receive £100 and a one-year subscription to the journal. The winning essay will be published in the third or fourth issue of Volume 28 (2022). The prize will be judged by two referees, along with the journal editors. Entries should be submitted via the journal's submission website and labelled 'PG Essay Prize' |
Previous Winners2021
Jakob Mainz, ‘An Indirect Argument for the Access Theory of Privacy’, 27.3 (2021) 2020 Tadhg Ó Laoghaire, ‘Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice’, 26.4 (2020) 2019 Zsolt Kapelner, ‘Revolution Against Non-violent Oppression’, Volume 25 Issue 4 2018 Cristóbal Bellolio Badiola ‘Science as Public Reason. A Restatement’ Volume 24 Issue 4 2017 Fredrik Dybfest Hjorthen 'Who should intervene?' Volume 23 Issue 4 2016 Josh Milburn 'Chewing over in vitro meat: animal ethics, cannibalism and social progress' Volume 22 Issue 3 2015 T. J. Kasperbauer 'Psychological Constraints on Egalitarianism: the challenge of just world beliefs' Volume 21 Issue 3 2014 Eldar Sarajilic 'Can culture justify infant circumcision?' Volume 20 Issue 4 2013 Franz Fan-lun Mang 'Liberal neutrality and moderate perfectionism' Volume 19 Issue 4 2012 Mark Hanin 'A moral critique of David Copp's naturalistic ethics' Volume 18 Issue 4 2011 Christopher Nathan 'Need there be a defence of equality?' Volume 17 Issue 3 2010 Guy Sela 'Moral luck and liability lotteries' Volume 16 Issue 3 2009 Seth Lazar 'The nature and disvalue of injury' Volume 15 Issue 3 2008 Göran Duus-Otterstrom 'Betting against hard determinism' Volume 14 Issue 3 2007 Alasdair Cochrane 'Animal rights and animal experiments: an interest-based approach' Volume 13 Issue 3 2006 Alexandra Couto 'Privacy and justification' Volume 12 Issue 3 |
