Rudolf and Ina Carnap Prize Essayists

2023-24  Daniel Ranweiler
2022-23  Catherine Hochman
2021-22  Jungsuk Lee, Daniel Ranweiler
2020-21  Zachary Biondi
2019-20  Kyle Scott
2018-19  Milo Crimi
2017-18  Gabbrielle Johnson
2016-17  Kevin Lande
2015-16  Kevin Lande
2014-15  Gregory Antill
2013-14  David Friedell
2012-13  Eileen Nutting
2011-12  Alex Radulescu, Eliot Michaelson
2007-08  Mikkel Gerken
2006-07  Dawn Starr
2005-06  David Ebrey
2004-05  Matt Lockard
2003-04  John Garthoff
2002-03  David Ebrey
2001-02  Ben Caplan
2000-01  Ben Caplan
1999-00  Keith Kaiser, Julie Tannenbaum
1998-99  Ben Caplan
1997-98  Glenn Branch
1996-97  Stefano Predelli
1995-96  Ansgar Simon
1994-95  Torin Alter, Byeong-Uk Yi
1993-94  Keith Kaiser
1992-93  Ronald David Bauer
1990-91  Keith DeRose
1989-90  Keith DeRose, Matthew Hanser, Julie Heath Elliot, Marleen Rozemond
1988-89  Jonathan Wilwerding
1987-88  Robert Charles Koons
1986-87  Jeremy S. Hyman
1985-86  Rachel Cohon, Jeremy S. Hyman, M. J. F. Thompson
1984-85  Rachel Cohon, Gary Ronald Mar 
1983-84  James Carl Klagge
1982-83  Paul Hoffman, Jonathan Wilwerding 
1981-82  Paul Hoffman
1980-81  Anthony Brueckner
1978-79  Viorica Farkas, Nathan Ucuzoglu Salmon
1977-78  Nathan Ucuzoglu
1976-77  Ronald W. Houts, Nathan Ucuzoglu
1975-76  David Gerber
1974-75  Tommy L. Lott
1973-74  Neil B. Lubow
1972-73  Michael Bennett, Enrique B. Delacruz
1971-72  Donald Victery 
1969-70  Michael Bennett, F. Jeffrey Pelletier
1967-68  Sherroll Ellis, F. Jeffrey Pelletier
1965-66  John Edward Clifford
1964-65  Raymond van Zuyle
1963-63  Martin M. Tweedale