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
on “Human Dignity and Tragic Choice” at the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, at 5 pm on December 29, 2014, in Philadelphia.
L.A. Paul talks about transformative experience with hosts John Perry and Ken Taylor. Philosophy Talk is a radio program produced by Stanford University. Steam the full episode here. L.A. Paul also gave a talk at HeadCon ’14.
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC) jointly sponsor the prize for excellence and innovation in philosophy programs. This prize recognizes philosophy departments, research centers, institutes, societies, publishers, or other organizations that risk undertaking new initiatives … Read more
Congratulations to Susan Wolf for having her book, “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters”, selected by Princeton University for all of its incoming first-year students to read and discuss during Orientation Week. For more details, see http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S39/68/81A23/, https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/10/08/pages/9510/, and https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/10/08/pages/7929/.
Alan Nelson has been selected by the Graduate School as the inaugural Harold J. Glass USAF Faculty Mentor Distinguished Professor! This award is a tribute to his talent and success as a mentor to graduate students. Congratulations, Alan!
