Philosophy as public service
Our creative, innovative outreach programs serve the public, bringing philosophy to prisons, retirement homes, and high schools! Read more here.
Our creative, innovative outreach programs serve the public, bringing philosophy to prisons, retirement homes, and high schools! Read more here.
We are very pleased to announce that two of our graduate students, DeeAnn Spicer and Pavel Nitchovski, have won Tanner Teaching Awards! These are UNC’s highest awards for graduate-student teachers. Only five winners from across the entire university are selected … Continued
Rebecca Walker has been highlighted in the 2020 edition of the Carolina Alumni Review! Please see here to read the article in which she is featured, “Ethics at the Forefront”.
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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.