Awards
The Belmont Philosophy Department offers two major awards each year to students: The Outstanding Philosophy Student Award and the Stacy Awalt Essay Award.
Each year, the department faculty presents the Outstanding Student award to one person. The award recognizes the student's contribution to the entire life of the philosophical community at Belmont University. In naming a person to this honor we celebrate the student's conscientious class preparation and participation, dedicated involvement in co-curricular lectures and conversations with others in the department, and the student's love of philosophy.
Recipients of the Outstanding Philosophy Student Award
| Year | Name |
|
07-08 |
Daniel DeHaan |
|
06-07 |
Brian Militana |
|
05-06 |
Joshua Wolak |
|
04-05 |
Travis Holloway |
|
03-04 |
John Shahan |
|
02-03 |
Laura Stewart |
|
01-02 |
Mancy Pendergrass |
|
00-01 |
Erin Cline |
|
99-00 |
John Warner |
|
98-99 |
Charles Ives |
|
97-98 |
Rafia Zakaria |
|
96-97 |
Ben Smith |
|
95-96 |
John Decker |
|
94-95 |
Greg MacDonald |
|
93-94 |
Mark Brasher |
|
92-91 |
Elizabeth Charlton |
|
91-92 |
Melita Padilla |
|
90-91 |
Don Byrd |
|
89-90 |
Charles Alday |
|
88-89 |
Jennifer Seaborn |
|
87-88 |
Erika Wollam |
Stacy Awalt Essay Award Competition
|
Year |
Category |
Place |
Recipient |
Title |
|
1996-97 |
Research |
1st |
Rafia Zakaria |
Plato's 'Ion': Treading the Boundaries Between Poetry and Philosophy |
|
1996-97 |
Research |
2nd |
Jeb Gerth |
The Artist as Philosopher: Can Philosophy Be A Good Story? |
|
1996-97 |
Research |
3rd |
Adriel Herring |
Was Hitler Happy? |
|
1997-98 |
Research |
1st |
Rafia Zakaria |
Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism |
|
1997-98 |
Research |
2nd |
Kim Hunter |
Fear and Trembling: Kierkegaard's Search for Peace |
|
1997-98 |
Research |
3rd |
Charles Ives |
A Proposal for a Lockean Aesthetic Theory |
|
1998-99 |
Research |
1st |
John Warner |
Self, Community and Moral Principle in the Age of Context: A Communitarian Critique of Individualism |
|
1998-99 |
Research |
2nd |
Robert Hall |
The Believing Skeptic: Hume's Argument for Religious Faith in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
|
1998-99 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Matthew Sterling |
No Escape |
|
1998-99 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Charles Ives |
The Gettier Problem |
|
1999-00 |
Research |
1st |
Erin Cline |
What is a Rule? An Analysis of Rules and Music in Wittgensteinian Thought |
|
1999-00 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Kristina Anders |
Differences in Method in Socrates and Mr. Keating in Dead Poet's Society |
|
1999-00 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Bess Harrell |
Apatheia in Stoic Philosophy |
|
1999-00 |
Creative/Original |
3rd |
Dana Wright |
Return to Paradise: Erratic Human Nature and Existential Choice |
|
2000-01 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Mancy Pendergras |
Faith and Reason in Action: Abraham, Kierkegaard, and Incommensurability |
|
2000-01 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Micah Stover |
In a World of Shadows...We Gravitate Towards Light |
|
2000-01 |
Research |
1st |
Erin Cline |
Why the Language Instinct is a Private Language |
|
2000-01 |
Research |
2nd |
John Shahan |
Concerning the Relationship between Language and Morality |
|
2001-02 |
Research |
1st |
Laura Stewart |
Kierkegaard: A Fairytale of Himself |
|
2001-02 |
Research |
2nd |
Rachel Tanner-Smith |
Selves in Transition: Moral Development in Kierkegaard, Kohlberg and Confucius |
|
2002-03 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Matt Stone |
In Defense of Crito |
|
2002-03 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Jacob Grimm |
Subtle Influence: The Impact of Existentialism on Popular Culture |
|
2002-03 |
Creative/Original |
3rd |
Ted Fox |
The Philosophy of Camus in The Stranger |
|
2002-03 |
Research |
1st |
Jason King |
A Confession Concerning Life Prospects and a Fair Proposal |
|
2003-04 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Kyle Zwiep |
The Detective and Aristotle’s Friendship |
|
2003-04 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Eric Wilkey |
John, the Epitomical Example |
|
2003-04 |
Research |
1st |
Jacob Grimm |
Vino Veritas |
|
2003-04 |
Research |
2nd |
Travis Holloway |
The Ethic of Ethics |
|
2004-05 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Joshua Wolak |
Autochthony |
|
2004-05 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Kyle Zwiep |
Am I Sure You Understand? |
|
2004-05 |
Research |
1st |
Eric Wilkey |
Hegel and Heraclitus: Becoming and the Truth of the Whole |
|
2004-05 |
Research |
2nd |
Travis Holloway |
Heidegger/Asian Thought |
|
2005-06 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Eric Detweiler |
The Cat and the Desperate Aesthetic |
|
2005-06 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Trevor Terndrup |
The Great Catsby as a Self-Stylized Existential Hero |
|
2005-06 |
Research |
1st |
Joshua Wolak |
The Phenomenon of Forgetfulness |
|
2005-06 |
Research |
2nd |
Daniel DeHaan |
The Absence of Essentialism |
|
2006-07 |
Research |
1st |
Stephen Strother |
A Return to 'Kripkenstein': Skepticism, Rules, and Paradox |
|
2006-07 |
Research |
2nd |
Geoff Elkins |
The Just Life in Relation to Sparta |
|
2006-07 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Eric Detweiler |
Of Philosophers, Poets, and Brothers: Finding a Place for Dostoevsky in the Republic of Plato |
|
2006-07 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Brian Militana |
Socrates as Prophet, Plato as Priest |
|
2007-08 |
Research |
1st |
James McLendon |
Apes and Moral Duty |
|
2007-08 |
Creative/Original |
1st |
Norma McCook |
Heraclitus, the Logos, and Justice |
|
2007-08 |
Creative/Original |
2nd |
Cody Badaracca |
Aristotle's Criticism of the Pluralists Empedocles and Anaxagoras |
