WINNERS OF PHI SIGMA TAU PAPER CONTEST
Year Name of Winner Title of Paper
2010 1st: Joanna Klimaski ?
2nd: Kathryn Brokus ?
2009 1st: Joanna Klimaski “The Essence of Identity: On the Relevance of the Metaphysical Question of Identity”
2nd: Patrick McLaughlin “Hannah Arendt and Augustinian Theodicy”
2008 1st: Christina Drogalis “Aristotle and the American Social Welfare State: Failure’s Consequences for American Democracy and Self-Sufficiency, and the Plausibility of a Solution”
2nd: John Miller “The Roots of Peircean Conceptual Analysis and the Withering Fruit of Contemporary Society”
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Musyt, “Jokes on Us: The Philosophy of Inside Jokes”
2007 1st: Amanda McCulloch “The Trilaterial Relationship of Rationality, Language, and Human Uniqueness”
2nd: Amy L. McKiernan “Moving Into The New Science of Giambattista Vico: The Orator as Homemaker”
Honorable Mention: Michael Frechen, “The Ethics of Sustainability: the Need for a Paradigm Shift”
2006 Sarah Brilmyer
2005 Irene Alfred
2004 1st: David Fine “Finding a New Way Home: Rethinking Arendt’s Concept of the Private Sphere”
2nd: Christopher Boltinghouse “Despair as the Affective Status Viatoris: A Thomistic Analysis”
2003 Joann C. Zielinsky
2002 Gregory Reichlen
2001 Anninha Nonnenmacher
2000 Eric Pauli
1999 David Stagliano
1998 Kim Blakiewicz
1997 Matthew Pierlott
1996 Steven Pustay
1995 Carol A. Hee
1994 Carol A. Hee
1993 Daryl Kovalich
1992 Paul Debraski
1990 Jeffrey Tiel
1989 Alexander Bertland
1988 Kelly Coughlin
1987 Timothy McGrew
1986 Kathleen Gallagher