The 2021 Kornelsen Undergraduate Essay Prize Competition Results

This year we received a record breaking 25 submissions for the Kornelsen Undergraduate Essay Prize, which is awarded each year for the best undergraduate student essay submission written for a University of Alberta undergraduate philosophy course in the award year. After careful consideration, the committee arrived at the following short-list of outstanding submissions:

Brandon Bach “Heidegger and Levinas on Alterity in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych”

Jonah Dunch “Seeing Clearly: Descartes’s Cogito Argument in the Discourse on Method and the Second Meditation”

Duncan McCallum “The Problem of Individuation: Scholastic Influences on Leibniz”

Jadon Meliefste “Hegemonikon and Oikeiosis:  An Examination of the Self in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations”

Tyler Paetkau “Degrees of Harm and Legitimacy: Inductive Risk and Epistemically Detrimental Dissent in the Sciences”

Neelam Singh “Untitled” [On the Buddhist conception of the puncualist/P-self]

The winner of the 2021 Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Undergraduate Essay Prize is Tyler Paetkau for his paper, “Degrees of Harm and Legitimacy: Inductive Risk and Epistemically Detrimental Dissent in the Sciences.” Congratulations Tyler!