Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition
Berkeley Prize Winners
Except as noted, all affiliations are believed to be current; please report any corrections to the University of Rochester Philosophy Department. Winners are listed according to the year in which the prize was awarded.
2021: Two Winning Essays
Todd DeRose, The Ohio State University, "Experience Itself Must Be Taught To Read and Write:" Scientific Practice and Berkeley's Language of Nature
Keota Fields, University of Massachusetts, "Berkeley On the Meaning of General Terms"
2019: Two Winning Essays
Manuel Fasko, University of Zurich, Switzerland, "Representation, Resemblance and the Scope of George Berkeley's Likeness Principle"
Peter West, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, "Anti-representationalism in Berkeley and Sergeant"
2017: No Winning Essays
2015
Nancy E. Kendrick, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, "The 'Empty Amusement' of Willing: Berkeley on Agent Causation"
2013
Thomas Curtin, Trinity College, Dublin, “Berkeley's Conception of Causal Power”
2011
Stefan Storrie, Trinity College, Dublin, “Berkeley's apparent Cartesianism in De Motu”
2009
Sukjae Lee, Ohio State University “Berkeley on the Activity of Spirits”
2007
Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard University, “Berkeley, Human Agency and Divine Concurrentism”
2005
Laurence Carlin, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, “Leibniz and Berkeley on Phenomenalism and Teleology”
2003
Michael Collins Allers, “A Worry about Divine Perception in Berkeley's Philosophy”
2001: Two Winning Essays
John Carriero, University of California at Los Angeles, “Immaterialism, The New Science, and Immediate Perception.”
Todd Ryan, Trinity College, “A New Account of Berkeley's Likeness Principle”
1999
Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Mr. Abbot and Professor Fraser: A 19th Century Debate about Berkeley's Theory of Vision,” published as Report 19/96 Forschungsgruppe, Perception and the Role of Evolutionary Internalized Regularities, Zentrum fuer interdiziplinaere Forschung, University of Beilefeld, 1996.
1997
No Award
1995
Stephen Harris, College of William and Mary (affiliation when prize was awarded), “Berkeley's Argument from Perceptual Relativity”
1993: Two Winning Essays
George Pappas, Ohio State University, “Berkeley and Scepticism,” published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIX, March, 1999
Alan Hausman, Hunter College of City University of New York, and David Hausman, “A New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal Reality,” published in Berkeley's Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995).
1992
Lisa Downing, Ohio State University, “Berkeley's Case Against Realism About Dynamics,” published in Berkeley's Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995). pp. 197-214
1991
Robert G. Muehlmann, University of Western Ontario, “The Substance of Berkeley's Philosophy,” published in Berkeley's Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995). pp. 89-105
1990
Philip D. Cummins, University of Iowa, “Berkeley's Manifest Qualities Thesis,” published Journal of the History of Philosophy, 28 (1990), pp. 385-401; reprinted in Berkeley's Metaphysics, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann (1995). pp. 107-127