Philosophy programme prizewinners

The Philosophy Programme has prizes for the top undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy and completing their Bachelor of Arts and for the top student completing their Honours degree in Philosophy. Each prize is named for a former member of staff, Maurice Goldsmith.

Framed photographs of each of the winners are on display at the Philosophy Programme premises (6th floor, Murphy Building, Kelburn Parade). Further details about these prizes may be found on the University’s Scholarships and Prizes website.

In 2020 a new prize was added, the Shaun Hopkins Memorial Prize in Logic, awarded to the best student in the Philosophy Programme’s ‘Introduction to Logic’ course. The prize was established in honour of a former PhD student in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington.

Maurice Goldsmith Prize—Best BA, Philosophy

2002 – Ruth Anderson
2003 – Marcus Tring
2004 – Christopher Fogelberg
2005 – Alice Monro and Kieran Paton
2006 – Ingrid Bauer
2007 – Adrian Currie
2008 – Lee Lien Bremner
2009 – Isobel Cairns and Udayan Mukherjee
2010 – Felice Marshall
2011 – Morgan Wisheart
2012 – Kelsey Farmer and Matthew O’Leary
2013 – Peter Otzen
2014 – Oliver Neas and Bethany Vale
2015 – Ping Lim and Esther Marshall
2016 – Anthony Hall and Benjamin Moore
2017 – Daniel Simpson Beck and Beatrice Wooding
2018 – Oscar Coltman and Jessica Kyne
2019 – Beth Harman and Michael Scanlan
2020 – Rowan Anderson
2021 – Angus Bartlett
2022 – Lily Stelling
2023 – Meredith Ross-James

Maurice Goldsmith Prize—Best BA (Honours), Philosophy

2014 – Tobias Vandenberg
2015 – Toby Newberry
2016 – Esther Marshall
2017 – Wilhelmina Berry
2018 – Daniel Simpson Beck and Beatrice Wooding
2020 – Darryl Mathieson
2021 – Rowan Anderson and Shakked Noy
2022 – Yihao “Finn” Zhou
2023 – Jorja Jamieson

Shaun Hopkins Memorial Prize in Logic—Best student, Introduction to Logic