Congratulations to our Class of 2025 Graduates and Essay Prize Winners!

The Department of Philosophy is proud of our Class of 2025 majors, concentrators, and recipients of MA and PhD degrees. We warmly congratulate them on their accomplishments and hard work. We also congratulate the 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"