YOUNGER SCHOLARS PRIZE

 

 

PAST WINNERS AND WINNING ESSAYS

 

Oxford Studies In Metaphysics

 

2008 Winner

After a difficult review of a record 30 submitted entries, the Ammonius Foundation and Editorial Board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics are pleased to announce Jeff Russell, NYU, as winner of the 2008 Younger Scholars Prize.  His winning essay, “The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space,” will be published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 5 (D. Zimmerman, ed.), forthcoming 2009.

Recipient: Jeff Russell

 

New York University

 

Title: "The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space" Click here to read.

 

2007 Winner

The Ammonius Foundation congratulates Bradford Skow, MIT for winning the 2007 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Competition. His winning essay "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics" will be published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 5 (D. Zimmerman, ed.).

Recipient: Bradford Skow

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Title: "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics"
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2006 Winner

The Ammonius Foundation joins Oxford Studies in Metaphysics in congratulating Stephan Leuenberger for winning the 2006 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Competition. His winning essay "Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 4 (2008, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 145 - 170.

Recipient: Stephan Leuenberger

 

Princeton University, now ANU

 

Title: "Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism" Click here to read.

 

2005 Winners

The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri, Columbia) and Cody Gilmore (University of Nebraska at Omaha) as co-winners of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Prize for 2005. McGrath's winning essay "Four Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 3 (2007, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 143 - 176.  Gilmore's winning essay "Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence" is also published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 3 (2007), pp. 177 - 198.

Recipient: Matthew McGrath

 

University of Missouri, Columbia

 

Title: "Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence" Click here to read.

 

Recipient: Cody Gilmore

 

University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

Title: "Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence" Click here to read.

 

2004 Winner

The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina) as winner of the inaugural OSM Younger Scholars Prize for 2004. His winning essay "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" is now published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 2 (2006, D. Zimmerman, ed.), pp. 155 - 206..

Recipient: Thomas Hofweber

 

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Title: "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions" Click here to read.