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New Crop prizewinners 2017 2017-05-15

This year’s New Crop Prize winners were

Edward Schwarz, “Belief Attribution”

Parisa Ali, “A phenomenology of the lay person in the Discourse of American Anti-Intellectualism”

Robert Aversa-Goodman, “Self Ownership and the Wilt Chamberlain example”

Runners-up were Patricio Munoz-Hernandez, “Why book ten belongs,” and Liam O’Connell, “Rule-following and skepticism about primitive normativity.”

The entries were judged by Professor Sally Haslanger from MIT, who also ran a special seminar for our undergraduate majors. Thanks to Professor Haslanger and to the generous donors who made this prize possible.