Jadyn Malone '25 Awarded the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize

The Philosophy Department is delighted to announce that Jadyn Malone '25 has been awarded the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize for the best honors thesis in the Arts and Humanities for the Class of 2025 for her honors thesis in philosophy, Magicicada and Mathematics: What the Parochiality of Our Explanations Means for the Indispensability Argument. Jadyn graduated as a Class 2025 valedictorian, as a Philosophy major, and public policy and mathematics minors.
 
Colleen Boggs, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, notes:
"Jadyn Malone's project, which was supervised in the Department of Philosophy by Professor Kenneth Walden, is an exemplary thesis in its subject. Deeply conversant with the philosophical fields it engages, clear in its argumentation and considerate of counterarguments, the thesis makes a clear contribution to its fields of engagement. It also has far-reaching implications beyond the more narrowly constrained field of philosophy and encourages readers to think anew about the things they think they know about the world of objects. The thesis is admirably accessible in its prose and structure; it achieves a clarity of thought that reveals rather than reduces the sophistication of its analysis."
 
The Rintels Prize recognizes an outstanding thesis written in the field of literature, language, philosophy, or the social sciences.
 
Congratulations to Jadyn for this terrific achievement!