AILACT Essay Prize
Prize-Winning Essays
- 2011 "What a real argument is" Ben Hamby, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton ON
- 2010 "Is 'Argument' subject to the process/product ambiguity?" Geoff Goddu, Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. [Informal Logic version]
(2010 Honourable mention: "Toulmin's 'Analytic Arguments'." Ben Hamby, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton ON.) [Informal Logic version]
- 2009 "Truth and Argument Evaluation" Patrick Bondy, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON [Informal Logic version]
2009 "The importance of belief in argumentation"
David M. Godden, Department of Philosophy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA [Synthese version]
- * No prize was awarded in 2008
- 2007 "What is a 'Real' Argument?" Geoff Goddu, Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA [Informal Logic version]
- 2006 "Generic Critical Thinking Infusion and Course Content Learning in Introductory Psychology" Tom Solon, Department of Psychology & Philosophy, Danville Area Community College [Journal of Instructional Psychology version]
- 2005 "Formal Logic for Informal Logicians" David Sherry, Department of Philosophy, Northern Arizona University [Informal Logic version]
- 2004 " A Defence of Non-deductive Reconstruction of Analogical Arguments" Marcello Guarini, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor [Informal Logic version]