The South Carolina Society for Philosophy was founded to serve the interests and needs of philosophy students and professionals around the State of South Carolina. We meet once a year, generally sometime in February or early March, at various universities or colleges around the state (usually rotating the meeting location from year to year among coastal, midlands, and upstate campuses). At this yearly conference, there are usually some special sessions with invited speakers, but the bulk of the sessions are based on submitted papers. There are no annual dues, but members pay a registration fee to attend the annual meeting. Recently we have been holding joint meetings every other year with the North Carolina Philosophy Society, alternating meetings between South Carolina and North Carolina locations.
Current SCSP Contacts
President: Nathan Sasser, Greenville Technical College
Vice-President: Kristina Grob, USC Sumter
Secretary-Treasurer: Ben McCraw, USC Upstate
SCSP email address: SCSPhilosophy@gmail.com.
Past winners of essay prizes
Undergraduate Awards:
Ben Lang
James Heard
Samuel Klein
Jay Carlson
Amy Dawson
Lauren Gasque
Lara Simpson
Ben Horne
Brian Lucier
Chad Lykins
Adrian M. Viens
Patrick Warren
Kelley McPherson
Eric J. Baron
Holly Schoenke
Robert D. Dodson
Kimberly M. Pospisil
J. Richard Shirley
Don Hrabe, Jr.
Kevin Bringewatt
Sarah M. Elkins
Shannon Duval
Sabrina Vogel
Thomas Pennachetti
Lauren Ross
Rita L. Childress
Mark A. Stone
L. Craig Dubose
Marshall McClintock
David M. Matthews
Thomas B. Turner
Lee D. Purvis
William A. Stubbs
James L. Mahaffey
Herbert L. Leff
Pixie Foster
Gloria Anne Haynes
Harriet Dantzler
Rupert Douglas Paige
Graduate Awards:
Michael Gregory
Arurva Parikh
Adam Omelianchuk
Brian Zaharatos
Travis Rieder
Patrick Brissey
Richard Holmes
Patrick Brissey
Jeff Turner
Daniel Malloy
Austin Matzko
Cynthia B. Bryson
Matt Miller
Larry Jorgensen
Timothy A. Preston
Sheila Lintott
Deborah Tollefsen
H. Darren Hibbs
Beattie Butler
Jennifer Gormel
E. Alan Folley
Timothy A. Preston
Mark Moller
Noel O’Rear Morton
Steve Rast
Faculty Awards
Benjamin McCraw
David Holliday
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Erskine Colege
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* The essay judges in 2002 were not aware of the SCSP policy that student essay prizes will be awarded only to South Carolina students, or for papers written while the author was a South Carolina student.
Rumors if not records indicate that the Society has been in existence as far back as 1935. (Charles Kay has found one reference to the Society having been founded in 1935 and meeting with the SC Academy of Sciences.) Detailed records go back only to the 1960s.
Notes:
1 As the only person in the history of the SCSP who served for two years as president, Hugh did not also deliver two presidential addresses.
2 At the time of the annual meeting, Ferdy was already seriously ill and therefore unable to present a presidential address. He is now remembered with a lecture series in his name at the University of South Carolina.
3 At the time of the annual meeting, Richard was just becoming a father and helped deliver something more important than a presidential address. He delivered one of two presidential addresses at the meeting in 2001.
4 Since the NCPS does not share our tradition of having a presidential address, Dan did not deliver his presidential address in 1998 but two years later at the meeting in Feb 2000.
5 Anne deferred to Daniel Wueste to give a presidential address. She will present her presidential address at a later date. Update: Anne presented a paper on "Metaphor and What is Said" at the 2001 meeting, though it was not billed as a presidential address at the time.
6 Chris was on sabbatical leave during the 2004–2005 academic year and did not deliver his presidential address in 2005.