Essay Award 2011

The essay question was: Can we trust our feelings? On the value of emotions for cognition and action

The following essays were awarded:

• 1st Prize: not awarded

• 2nd Prize: Amadeus Magrabi:
  Can we Trust our Feelings? On the Value of Feelings for Decision-Making

• 3rd Prize: Stefan Reining:
  Do Pain-Accompanying Emotions Mislead Us? – Considerations in the Light of Reactive Dissociation Phenomena

Essay Award 2010

The essay question was: What do we owe other generations?

The following essays were awarded:

• 1st Prize: not awarded

• 2nd Prize: Stefan Reining:
  Verpflichtungen gegenüber zukünftigen Generationen im Lichte der Goldenen Regel

• 3rd Prize: not awarded

Essay Award 2009

The essay question was: Learning from fiction? On the epistemological value of thought experiments or literature  

The following essays were awarded:

• 1st Prize: Max Seeger:
  Experimental Philosophy and the Twin Earth Intuition

• 2nd Prize: Sebastian Köhler:
  Thought-experiments, Disagreement and Moral Realism

• 3rd Prize: Stefan Reining:
  Über die vermeintliche Unzulässigkeit physikalisch unmöglicher Fälle in der Debatte um diachrone Personenidentität

Essay Award 2008

The essay question was: Why search for the truth?

The following essays were awarded:

• 1st Prize: not awarded

• 2nd Prize: Stefan Reining:
  Über den möglichen Wert der Unwissenheit

• 3rd Prize: David Ludwig:
  Die Sorge um die Wahrheit

• 4th Prize: Susanne Mantel:
  Warum nach der Wahrheit suchen?

Essay Award 2007

The essay question was: Could we be fully physically determined and still responsible for our actions?

The following essays were awarded:

• 1st Prize: Lars Dänzer:
  A Neglected Argument for Compatibilism
  

• 2nd Prize: Anselm Spindler:
  Über moralische Verantwortung und alternativen Möglichkeiten

• 3rd Prize: Andreas Maier:
  Weeding in the Garden of Forking Paths – Yet Another Look at Alternative Possibilities