Appendix: List of Winners1

First Prize

Emily Adlam Fundamental?

Second Prizes

Matthew Leifer

Alyssa Ney

Dean Rickles

Against Fundamentalism

The Politics of Fundamentality

Of Lego and Layers (and Fundamentalism)

Third Prizes

Sean Carroll, Ashmeet Singh

Karen Crowther

Gregory Derry

Sabine Hossenfelder

Mad-Dog Everettianism: Quantum Mechanics at Its Most Minimal

When do we stop digging? Conditions on a fundamental theory of physics

Fundamentality, Explanation, and the Unity of Science

The Case for Strong Emergence

1From the Foundational Questions Institute website: https://fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/ 2017.2.

Fourth Prizes

Ian Durham Bell’s Theory of Beables and the Concept of ‘Universe’

Markus Mueller Mind before matter: reversing the arrow of fundamentality Marc Seguin Fundamentally Here, Fundamentally There, Fundamentally

Everywhere

Tejinder Singh Things, Laws, and the Human Mind

Ken Wharton Fundamental is Non-Random

Student Author Prize

Aditya Dwarkesh ‘Fundamentality’ as a Linguistic Paradigm (and Linguistics as a Fundamental Paradigm)

Creative Writing Prize

Mozibur Ullah Socrates, Atoms, and Being: A Dialogue