This prize honors the memory of Michael R. Bennett, who joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1974, coming from UCLA, but died unexpectedly in 1978 at the age of 35. The prize is awarded to a graduate student paper that is found to be of extraordinary quality. Because the standards for the award are high, if no essay is judged to meet those standards, the award is not given out that year. Below is a list of past recipients, many of whom have gone on to extraordinary careers in philosophy.
(Note: the list below may be incomplete. Please contact the webmaster if you can correct any omissions.)
Year | Recipient |
2022 | Pablo Zendejas Medina |
2021 | Aaron Salomon and Aaron Segal |
2020 | Thomas Breed and Annika Froese |
2019 | Aaron Segal |
2017 | Stephen Mackereth and Larkin Philpot |
2016 | Laura Tomlinson |
2014 | Jonathan Buttaci |
2013 | Adam Marushak |
2011 | Ori Beck |
2010 | Timothy Willenken |
2009 | Ian Blecher |
2005 | Susanna Schellenberg |
2004 | Andrea Scarantino |
2003 | Stephen Puryear |
2001 | Doug Lavin |
1999 | Matt Boyle |
1998 | John MacFarlane |
1997 | Lisa Van Alstyne |
1996 | Tommie Shelby |
1994 | Logi Gunnarson |
1993 | Philip Kremer |
1992 | Iakovos Vasiliou |
1991 | Jonathan Mandel |
1990 | Katherine J. Nolan |
1989 | David Boonin |
1988 | Timothy van Gelder Robert Pennock |
1987 | Mark Lance |
1986 | Anna Greco |
1985 | Charles Cross |
1984 | Joseph Shea |
1983 | Michael Kremer |
1982 | Charles Cross |
1981 | Patrick Maher |
1980 | Jay Garfield |