All papers presented at the Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference are evaluated by blind review process by our distinguished judges. The top three papers are awarded cash prizes. This year’s winners were:
First Prize: David Kraus, Covenant College: “Affections and Empathy: Is There a Way Forward on the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance?”https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iBmcJf9RR4rRWScaQVEnMpmbWTtRBbEvv5F7GYW2_Bo/edit?usp=sharing
Second Prize: Matthew Tuten, Western Carolina University: “Mnemotechnology, Transgression, and the Genealogy of the Nietzschean Philosophy”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1igohDtXT9_dKfRxonorMjUMqJ6D9amyT664O1c5E_T4/edit?usp=sharing
Third Prize: Noah McKay, Covenant College: “The Many-Persons Argument for Dualism”
Henri Lowe, Covenant College: “How Does Art Express? Surveying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Expressionist Theories of Art” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FgxqG638x5kMphOXF6NJK2XskeU9nRVhzdqLw8bm4UY/edit?usp=sharing