Please join us in congratulating all of the finalists in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2021, and in particular our winners, Imogen Rivers and Lily Moore-Eissenberg.
As the Uk continues to be in lockdown due to the pandemic, the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics was again held as a Zoom webinar event. The Finalists in each category presented their ideas to an online audience and responded to a short Q&A as the final round in the competition. Over the coming weeks a selection of the winning essays will be published on this blog.
Undergraduate Category
Winner: Imogen Rivers: Against Making a Difference
Runner Up: Tanae Rao: Why, if at all, is it unethical for universities to prioritise applicants related to their alumni
Honourable Mention: Edward Lamb: ‘Rational Departure’: What Does Stoicism Reveal About Contemporary Attitudes Towards Suicide?
Graduate Category
Winner: Lily Moore-Eissenberg: Causing People to Exist and Compensating Existing People. Does the nonidentity problem undermine the case for reparations?
Joint Runners Up: Rebecca L Clark: Should Feminists endorse a Universal Basic Income & Oshmita Ray: May the use of violent civil disobedience be justified as a response to institutional racism?
Honourable Mention: Jules Desai: Is there a moral difference between Corpses biological and artificial?