We are pleased to announce that Jen Morton’s book, “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Cost of Upward Mobility” (Princeton University Press), has just won the 2021 Frederic W. Ness Book Award for the year’s book that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education.
Congratulations, Jen!
It is our pleasure to announce that Karl Adam, Michael Prinzing, Ben Schwartz, and DeeAnn Spicer have been selected as 2020-2021 Maynard Adams Fellows for the Public Humanities!
Congratulations, all!
Congratulations to our newest philosophy major Phi Beta Kappa inductees, Raj Dutta, Annie Evans, and Greer Underwood! Please see here for more details. Each semester, Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society initiates exceptional undergraduates. We warmly commend our philosophy students for this outstanding achievement!
Luc Bovens published a blog “‘From each according to ability; to each according to need’ – tracing the biblical roots of socialism’s enduring slogan” in The Conversation. Check it out here!
Jen Morton, whose paper, “Grit” (Ethics), co-written with Sarah Paul, was honored by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best for 2019.
Congratulations, Jen!
Prof. Susan Wolf was recently interviewed by Kieran Setiya on the podcast, Five Questions. Please click here to listen!
Please see here to check out Travis Tygart’s interview! Travis graduated from UNC in 1993 with a B.A. in Philosophy.
Prof. Rebecca Walker was recently featured in Endeavors! Please see here to read more about her research in navigating animal research ethics.
Congratulations to our newest philosophy major Phi Beta Kappa inductees, Andreamarie Efthymiou, Kethan Galloway, and Adila Islam! Please see here for more details. Each semester, Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society initiates exceptional undergraduates. We warmly commend our philosophy students for this outstanding achievement!
The Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success Program has recently interviewed some of our Department’s graduate students as part of their Global Grad Scholars series. Please follow the links below to read more:
Warm congratulations on these features, Global Scholars!