During his 2025 Commencement address, University President Christopher Eisgruber gave a shout-out to the Department of Philosophy. 

Reminiscing about the book he had been reading the summer after his own graduation from Princeton, Alexis de Tocqueville’s "Democracy in America,” Eisgruber said: "Tocqueville wrote that ‘there is no country in the civilized world where [people] are less occupied with philosophy than the United States,’ but New Jersey by itself boasts two of the world’s greatest philosophy departments, at Princeton and Rutgers.”

The Department of Philosophy would like to give a special shout-out to graduates Rosie Eden and Thomas Rosini who received University undergraduate honors.  Eden, who minored in philosophy, delivered this year's Latin salutatory address, the University’s oldest student honor.  Rosini, a philosophy major who captained the men's squash team, received the Chris Sailer Leadership Award which honors two student athletes who demonstrate exceptional leadership. 

Shout-outs also to the following recipients of the Department of Philosophy 2025 undergraduate awards:

•     Stella Amyot: The John Martyn Warbeke 1903 Prize in Esthetics
•    James Jun and Kerrie Liang: The John Martyn Warbeke 1903 Prize in Metaphysics and Epistemology
•    Shamma Pepper Fox and Thomas Rosini: The Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
•    Kerrie Liang: The Dickinson Prize
•    Eliot Peck: The Alexander Guthrie McCosh Prize

And, of course, a final shout-out to all our philosophy graduates!