Past Winners of the BRS Student Essay Prize Competition
Beginning in 1993, these prizes replaced the Doctoral and Masters Grants
previously given by the Society.
2008 To be Announced
2007
Graduate Paper
2006
Graduate Papers
2005
Graduate Paper
2004 BRS Annual Meeting at Plymouth, NH
2003 BRS Annual Meeting at Lake Forest College
2002 (no winners this year)
2001 BRS Annual Meeting at McMaster University
2000 (no winners this year)
1999 BRS Annual Meeting at Monmouth University
1998 (no winners this year)
1997 (no winners this year)
1996 BRS meeting at Drew University, Madison, NJ
1995 BRS meeting in Columbia, Maryland
1994 BRS meeting in Toronto in association with world humanists
1993 BRS meeting in San Diego
Chair of Program: John R. Lenz (1993-1995, 1999); John Shosky (1996-98);
Alan Schwerin (2000-).
Chris Russell (La Trobe University): 'Kant and Russell's Logicism'
Emilio Reyes Le Blanc (University of Toronto): 'Russell on Acquaintance and De Dicto Belief'
Max Belaise (University of Martinique): 'Russell on Science and Religion'
Gulberk Koc (McMaster University): "Russell's Behavioral Theory of Meaning"
Graduate Papers
Irem Kurtsal (Syracuse University): "Russell on Matter and Our Knowledge of the External World."
James Connelly (York University): "Russell and Wittgenstein on Propositions."
Graduate Paper
David Taylor (University of Iowa): "Causal Processes: A Realist Approach".
Graduate Paper
Giovanni Vianelli (University of Bologna): "The Centenary of the Paradox: Pythagoras and (the recently discovered) Russell."
Graduate Paper
Jose E. Idler (M.A. student, Central University, Venezuela):
"The Human Project in Bertrand Russell."
Undergraduate Paper
Brian Rookey (Arkansas State University), "What Is Meaning?"
Graduate Paper
Gideon Makin (Wolfson College, Oxford and the Bolton Institute of Higher
Education), "Some Prevalent Misconceptions Concerning the Theory of Descriptions."
Graduate Paper
Paul O'Grady (Trinity College, Dublin), "The Russellian Roots of Naturalized
Epistemology." This paper was subsequently published in Russell
15.1 (1995), pp. 53-63.
Undergraduate Paper
Todd Hughes (SUNY, Geneseo), "Russell and Pitcher on Propositions."
Graduate Paper
Jason Holt (Dalhousie University), "On Russell's Construction of Mind."
Undergraduate Paper
Tyler W. Roberts (SUNY, Fredonia), "Russell, the Individual and Society."
Graduate Paper
Stefan Andersson (University of Lund, Sweden), "Bertrand Russell's
Search for Certainty in Religion and Mathematics." This was from Stefan's
thesis, later published as
In Quest of Certainty: Bertrand Russell's
Search for Certainty in Religion and Mathematics up to The Principles
of Mathematics (1903) (Stockholm, 1994).
Committee Members: Elizabeth R. Eames (1993-), Marvin Kohl (1993-95),
John Lenz (1993-), Tim Madigan (1993-), John Shosky (1993-98).