The Haller Scholarship Endowment, established in 1974, is used for Haller Prizes, awarded for outstanding overall performance in 400-level Philosophy courses (excluding PHIL 413 - PHIL 418) and—occasionally—for essays of exceptional merit written for these courses.

In 2010 the Department extended the original Haller Prize award to include overall exceptional achievement in Philosophy. This award is determined based on students' overall grade point average and participation in departmental activities.

For more information on the Haller Prize, visit the Philosophy Department website.

Congratulations to our graduating honors students on the completion of their thesis projects!

Marianne Drysdale, "American Confusion about the Corporate Social Role"

Advisor: Janet Weiss

Lorraine Furtado, "Using Supervised Learning Methods to Measure Women's Rights: An Analysis of the Language of Reproductive Briefs"

Advisor: Yuki Shiraito

Sebastian Leder Macek, "Campaign Finance Laws and Redistribution in the Developed Democracies"

Advisor: Robert Mickey

Second Reader: Brian Min

Maeve O'Brien, "'I Shot Him Because I Feared for My Life': How U.S. Self-Defense Laws Affect Women Who Kill in Self-Defense"

Advisor: Mika Lavaque-Manty

Leah Weingarten, "Lies, Deception, and Manipulation in Survivor: How Society Created a World that Plays by Its Own Moral Rules, and How We Justify an Infatuation with Winning at Any Cost"

Advisor: Brian Weatherson

Second Reader: Sarah Buss