Past Troy Moore Essay Contest Winners

Lauren Adams, “Using the Harm Principle to Measure the Ethics of Grading in Higher Education,” 2024.

Dylan Hill, “Coercion and Forced Vaccination,” 2023.

Denise Wong, “Bitcoin – The Fool’s Gold,” 2022

Davis Homrich, “Comparing Two Accounts of Necessary Violent Protest,” 2021.

Aaron Brown, “On the Role of Government Regulation: Regulators as Advocates”, 2020.

Oliver Flint, “Is ‘Do No Harm’ Enough? Negative Duties, Positive Duties, and Thomas Pogge’s Health Impact Fund”, 2018-19

Oliver Flint, “Arthur at the End of the World: A Schopenhauerian Extinction”, 2017-18

Taylor Bennett, “Who Knows Why We’re Laughing?” 2016-17

Nathan Douglas Ward, “Moral Responsibility and Epistemic Vice: A Reply to FitzPatrick on Rosen’s Moral Responsibility Skepticism” 2014-2015

A. Cameron Boone, “The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm” 2013-2014

Caitlin McCoyd “Gauthier’s Translucent Constrainers” 2012-2013

Christopher Fidalgo “The Tempering of a Defense: Further Critiques against Error Theory in light of Russ Shafer-Landau’s Ethical Nonnaturalism” 2011-2012

Pierce Randall  “The Sea Shepherds and Civil Disobedience” 2010-2011

John Raubach  “Killing and Letting Die: A Partial Defense of F.M. Kamm’s Intricate Ethics”  2009-2010

Lauren Wells  “Rights and the Dead: A Short Analysis”  2008-2009

Joel Keith Cates  “Socially Responsible:A Defense of Friedman’s conception of the Corporation”   2007-2008

Pamela J. Stubbart “Dirty Harry:One Problem, Two Resolutions”  2006-2007

James Soo Lee  “A Sound Society? A Critique of Gauthier’s Ethical Theory”  2005-2006