ACPQ Rising Scholar Essay Contest

• Papers must be submitted electronically by no later than 5 p.m. (CDT) on September 1, 2023. The paper should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 150 words. The cover letter field of the submission site's Details and Comments section should indicate the author's academic rank as of September 1, 2023 (e.g., "PhD candidate") and that the submission is for the essay contest.
• Papers should be prepared for blind review and should be of the length, format and style characteristic of ACPQ articles. Participants should consult a recent edition of the journal or the ACPQ Article Submission Guidelines. The statement "Redacted for Blind Review" may be used in place of any material removed for the purposes of blind review (such as acknowledgments, statements of gratitude, affiliation information, or references authored by participant(s)).
• No author may enter more than one paper in the contest. Previous Rising Scholar Contest winners are ineligible to enter.
• Entering a paper in the contest constitutes agreement to its publication in the ACPQ should it be accepted for that purpose; such agreement is not contingent on the papers winning the contest. Papers entered in the contest must therefore not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• The winning paper will be published in the ACPQ and will be specially designated in the ACPQ as winner of the contest.
• Notification will be sent by November 1, 2023, regarding whether papers have reached the finalists stage.
• It is expected that the author(s) of the winning essay will be notified by December 15, 2023.
• Inquiries may be directed to acpq@stthomas.edu.

The winning essay will be published in the ACPQ and specially designated in the journal as winner of the contest.

The author of a single-authored winning paper will receive a $3000 award and a free one-year membership in the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA). Each co-author of a co-authored winning paper will receive a share, equal to that of the other co-author(s), of a $3000 award, together with a free one-year membership for in the ACPA. All co-authors of the winning paper must be below the rank of associate professor at the time of the submission deadline, September 1, 2023. Author(s) need not be members of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

2013

Andrew J. Jaeger, Back to the Primitive: From Substantial Capacities to Prime Matter, ACPQ v. 88 no. 3 (2014): 381-95.

2014

Brian Besong, Reappraising the Manual Tradition, ACPQ v. 89 no. 4 (2015): 557-84.

2015

Joseph Stenberg, "Aquinas on the Relationship between the Vision and Delight in Perfect Happiness," ACPQ v. 90 no. 4 (2016): 665-80.

2016

Therese Scarpelli Cory, "Knowing as Being? A Metaphysical Reading of the Identity of Intellect and Intelligibles in Aquinas," ACPQ v. 91 no. 3 (2017): 333-51.

2017

Daniel Shields, "Everything in Motion is Put in Motion by Another: A Principle in Aquinas' First Way," ACPQ v. 92 no.4 (2018): 535-61.

2018

Thomas A. Ward, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom," ACPQ v. 93 no. 3 (2019): 385-409.

2020

Christopher-Marcus Gibson, “What’s the Good of Perfected Passion? Thomas Aquinas on Attentiveness & the Filiae Luxuriae,” ACPQ v. 95 no. 2 (2021): 249-70.

2021

Nathaniel B. Taylor, "Substances in Subjects: Instantiation and Existence in Avicenna," ACPQ v. 96 no. 3 (2022).

2022

John Jalsevac, "Mitigating the Magic: The Role of Memory, the Vis Cogitativa, and Experience in Aquinas's Abstractionist Epistemology," ACPQ v. 97 no. 3 (2023).