2006 - Simon Clarke from the University of Canterbury for a series of newspaper columns entitled 'Clear Thinking' that appeared in the Christchurch Press.

2005 - Kim Atkins for her article 'Matters of personal preference', The Australian Financial Review.

2004 - Stan Van Hooft for his Late Night Live interview with Phillip Adams on Socratic Dialogue. Listen to, or view the transcript, of some of Stan's more recent radio interviews on What is Morality? and Cosmopolitanism. Both interviews took place on Alan Saunders' ABC Radio National Program, The Philosophers Zone.

2003 - Tim Dare

2002 - John Sutton for his weekly radio program Ghost in the Machine. John has also been interviewed on various topics, including Dreams on ABC Radio National Program Life Matters and Animal Spirits: The Mind in History on ABC Radio National Program All in the Mind.

2001 - not awarded

2000 - Tamas Pataki for his article 'Narcissism Incarnate', The Australian's Review of Books, August 1999.

1999 - Chandran Kukathas for his lecture, 'Tolerating the Intolerable', delivered at the Senate Department's Occasional Lecture Series on 24th June 1998 in Parliament House. The lecture was broadcast on ABC Radio National program Life Matters - view program details here, and is published in Papers on Parliament, 1999.