Postgraduate Essay Prize
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For the eighteenth year running, Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Social Philosophy, will be awarding a prize for the best paper by a current or recent postgraduate student. To be eligible, candidates must be current postgraduate students or must have completed their PhD viva no earlier than 1 May 2023.
The winner will receive £100 and a one-year subscription to the journal. The winning essay will be published in Res Publica, with expected publication in the last issue of the year. Decisions on all papers will be made within two months of the submission deadline. Papers that do not win the prize may be considered for ordinary publication in the journal. Papers may be in any area of moral, legal, social or political philosophy. Entries should conform to the normal requirements for submissions - please click here for details. The submission deadline for the Prize is 30 April 2024. 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 Winners2023
Matteo Boccacci, 'Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity', 29.4 (2023) 2022 Jonas Haeg, 'Entrapment and Manipulation', 28.4 (2022) 2021 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 |
