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Trinity College Cambridge Philosophy Prize

maghreblover

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Anyone enter this? If you did, what was your essay on....mine was on The Problem of Evil.

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Adhsur

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I'm not at Trinity any more, but I graduated in philosophy from there this year. I'm very intrigued as to what this Trinity Philosophy prize is. I'm guessing it is for people who haven't gone there yet?

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DoMakeSayThink

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Adhsur

I'm not at Trinity any more, but I graduated in philosophy from there this year. I'm very intrigued as to what this Trinity Philosophy prize is. I'm guessing it is for people who haven't gone there yet?

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=696

There we go.

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sundogs

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i wanna enter...next year when I'm in l6th :p:

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Adhsur

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I wish I'd known about this before I went to Cambridge :biggrin:

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maghreblover

OP

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Adhsur

I wish I'd known about this before I went to Cambridge :biggrin:

awww....it only started this year. But anyway, you made it into cambridge so :smile:

Reply 6

Antithesis

I'm just about to send off my entry for this year's competition. I chose the Darwin and Christinianity topic. Anyone else entering? If so, what did you write about?

Good luck! :smile:

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QED

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If I knew about this earlier I probably would've done it. :s

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shamrock92

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I saw this, but I decided not to enter it. Honestly, I thought the titles were a bit lame compared to the jazzier ones that other competitions - such as the Corpus Christi one - boast. "Is the will free?" and "Is altruism irrational?" seemed to be near-stereotypically philosophical questions, and I couldn't really get into them.

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minimo

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shamrock92

I saw this, but I decided not to enter it. Honestly, I thought the titles were a bit lame compared to the jazzier ones that other competitions - such as the Corpus Christi one - boast. "Is the will free?" and "Is altruism irrational?" seemed to be near-stereotypically philosophical questions, and I couldn't really get into them.

the simplest sounding, most apparently conventional questions can be the hardest to answer well.

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shamrock92

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minimo

the simplest sounding, most apparently conventional questions can be the hardest to answer well.

Sure, but what put me off was the fact that they were often issues that were "introductory" to philosophy and that I'd thought about and been taught about before, so I didn't think I'd get much out of the reading and researching process. For example, writing an essay on the classical compatibilism/"how should we define freedom" debate didn't really appeal to me when I've been lucky enough to have studied it already; I wouldn't have been able to make a particularly insightful or intelligent contribution.

Reply 11

danceofdays

Heythrop College, University of London also have a prize for Psychology AND Theology essays:

http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/heythrop-psychology-essay-prize-2010.html

1st prize is around £1,000...

You must be studying for any AS or A2 level exams (or equivalent) & not be aged over 19 in March 2010.

Trinity College Cambridge Philosophy Prize

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