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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 …

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued