Congratulations to Jadon Meliefste!

Jadon Meliefste is the winner of the 2022 Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Undergraduate Essay Prize.

29 August 2022

The Kornelsen Undergraduate Essay Prize is awarded each year for the best undergraduate student essay submission written for a University of Alberta undergraduate philosophy course in the award year. After careful consideration, the committee arrived at the following shortlist of outstanding submissions:

Morsal Ahmadyar, A Philosophical Account of Obesity: The Role of Interactive Kinds & Looping Effects in Bariatrics

Sasha Colvin, The Work of Art in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Douglas Verheijen, Speech Act Theory, Conventions and Intentions

Suntie Hienkeo, Abortion and The Golden Rule

Duncan McCallum, Husserl’s Transcendental Turn and the Realism/Idealism Debate: A Reappraisal of Roman Ingarden’s Interpretation and Critique of Husserl

Jadon Meliefste, Getting a Grasp on Emptiness: Explicating Nagarjuna’s Theory of Emptiness Within an Epistemological Framework

And the winner of the 2022 Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Undergraduate Essay Prize is Jadon Meliefste. Congratulations Jadon!