Awards and Honors

The Schlaretzki Prize

This prize is named after Ernest "Ernie" Schlaretzki, former chair of the philosophy department, and is awarded to our most outstanding graduating senior. The winners are:

2025 - Noah Swank

2024 - Kalonji Harrington

2023 - Charese Vo

2022 - Elizabeth Schrier 

2021 - Florence Ning

2020 - Ariel Levchenko

2019 - Annie Trang and Allison Whitaker

The Joseph and Beth Duckett Award

This award was established by Joseph and Beth Duckett, parents of a former philosophy major, in order to honor the most outstanding junior philosophy major each year. The winners are

2023 - Kalonji Harrington and Colby DeMelfi

2022 -  Nicholas Vincent Blanda

2021 - Antonil Barakat and Rachel Schrier

2020 - Perry Beamer

2021 - Ariel Levchenko and Thomas McEvoy Zafiropulos 

Honors in Philosophy

The following students have recently graduated with Honors in Philosophy:

2025 - Noah Swank, Two Nomological Defenses of Idealism

2023 - Madeline Naumann, Marrying the Metaphysics of Laws and Time

2023 - Shannon Dawe, Plato and Aristotle on the Benefits of Anger

2022 - Benjamin Friedman, Moses Mendelssohn on Common Sense, With Reference to Spinoza

2021 - Brandon Martinez, Moral Grandstanding and Moral Overconfidence

2021 - Alex Melvin, The Misdirection and Abuse of Artificial Intelligence

2021 - Florence Ning, Blame, Moral Protest, and the Self

2020 - Eunice Cho, Implications of Current Theories of Memory on Personal Identity

2020 - Francis Marcellino, Evolution and Intellectual History of the Frauchigger-Renner Argument (Winner of the Winston Family Honors Award)

2020 - Ariel Levchenko, The Personite Problem: Ethical Implications of Time

2020 - Aharon Logue, Virtue Ethics in Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's The Path of the Upright

2020 - Michael Pollack, Epistocracy as an Epistemic Injustice

2020 - Thomas McEvoy Zafiropulos, Personal Identity and Personhood: A New Schema for 'Us'