The 2017 competition for the Peter Horban Philosophy Undergraduate Award has been won by Sam Mitchell, for his paper "Machan and the Hardliner鈥檚 Dilemma: Is Holding Mack鈥檚 Self-Ownership Proviso at Odds with Political Liberterianism?"
Extraordinarily, second place was also claimed by Sam, for his paper 鈥淓pistemic Policies Under Multiple Levels of Opacity.鈥� This is an unprecedented result!
Congratulations to Sam, and to all our other nominees in an outstanding and competitive year. There were a large number of extremely high-quality submissions this year, and the task in determining a winner was especially hard. We are impressed by and proud of our remarkably talented group of undergraduate students.