I am delighted to tell you that Kyle Driggers has won a Student Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards Committee. These are the only undergraduate teaching awards funded entirely by student fees and are awarded … Read more
UNC Philosophy majors Olivia Branscum, Charles Perkins, and Chris Register presented papers at this year’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Branscum’s ‘Truth in Fiction: The Artistic Epistemology of Virginia Woolf’ was one … Read more
It is our pleasure to announce that Kiran Bhardwaj has been inducted into the Campus Y’s Order of the Golden Fleece Honor Society. The Order of the Golden Fleece is UNC’s oldest and most prestigious honor society. Members are carefully … Read more
The current Ethics (vol 125, #2, January 2015) has an article by one UNC grad (Benjamin Bagley, “Loving Someone In Particular”), a retrospective essay by another (Nathaniel Sharadin, “On Durant Drake’s ‘May Belief Outstrip Evidence?’”), and a review of a …
Bernard Boxill has won the University’s “Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction” for 2015 in honor of his extraordinary work with graduate students. Congratulations, Bernie! Graduate Student Lindsay Brainard has won UNC’s “Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants” for 2015. Congratulations, Lindsay, for this well-deserved honor! At its annual meeting, the NC Philosophical Society awards essay prizes. This year, UNC-CH undergraduate philosophy major, Jake Rohde, received the 2015 Undergraduate Essay Prize for his paper, “Plato and the Tripartite Analysis of Knowledge”. Jake wrote this paper for … Read more Philosophy Opportunities and Conversations for Underserved Students (PhOCUS) seeks to promote philosophical and ethical engagement with underserved and low-income high school student populations, building on the work of the Parr Center for Ethics and the University of North Carolina Philosophy … Read more The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) has named Jennifer Kling‘s “Justifying the State Right of Self-Defense” paper Best Formal Paper by a Graduate Student. As a result, Jen has been invited to present at the APPE’s annual conference (Feb … Read more The Parr Center for Ethics’ Interim Director, Geoff Sayre-McCord, spoke with WCHL reporter, Aaron Keck, on December 16 about the North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl (NC HSEB) and current Parr Center initiatives. The NC HSEB will take place on … Read more
Bernard Boxill Wins UNC Teaching Award
January 28, 2015
Brainard Wins Tanner Teaching Award
January 28, 2015
Rohde’s Paper Named Best by NCPS
January 21, 2015
Philosophy Opportunities and Conversations for Underserved Students (PhOCUS)
December 29, 2014
Kling’s Paper Named Best by APPE
December 22, 2014
Sayre-McCord Speaks About NC HSEB on WCHL
December 17, 2014
