Once one of the ranching and mining heartlands of the United States, New Mexico no longer has the workforce nor environmental conditions to support its dwindling number of cattle ranchers. Those who remain recognize ranching’s importance, seeking to continue tending the land in the face of encroaching subdevelopment. Land With No Rider captures the transcendent New Mexican skies, illustrating with pastoral breadth why these ranchers remain.
The screening will be followed by a talkback with the director Tamar Lando, moderated by filmmaker and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson.
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The faculty mentoring award is presented annually to two faculty of Columbia University to recognize excellence in mentoring PhD and MA students during their graduate careers. We congratulate Professor Honneth on receiving this award and for all his work in advising our students. Honneth, whose words were read by Professor Christopher Peacocke, wrote of mentorship, “What is needed is not a specific kind of theoretical knowledge or expertise, but a mixture of empathy, good will, and an abundance of patience.” For more information, please see this page.
The Department of Philosophy is proud of our Class of 2025 majors, concentrators, and recipients of MA and PhD degrees. We congratulate them all of their accomplishments and hard work. We also congratulatethe following students for earning the following prizes and distinctions.
Departmental Honors
Nathan Darmon (GS)
Varun Mandgi (GS)
Oliver Rice (CC)
Elias Wachtel (CC)
Adam Leroy Jones Prize
Zimu Zhang (CC) - "Why nonlocality and nonseparability does not suggest monism."
Honorable Mention, Shanley and Chamberlain Essay Competition
Nathan Darmon (GS) - "Big Tech as Emerging Company-States"
James Gutmann Prize
Oliver Rice (CC) - "Pragmatic Efficacy as Mereological Criterion: A Madhyamaka Solution to a Vaiśeṣika Problem"
Elias Wachtel (CC) - "Reasons, Conversions, and Mistakes: A Response to Bernard Williams' Internal and External Reasons"
Jonathan Lieberson Memorial Prize
Helen Luo (GSAS) - "A Role Ethics of Truthfulness"
Lina Kahn Prize
Artha Yau (GSAS) - "Vague Identity: Evans Extended"