Congratulations to graduating senior Katie Leonard! She has been awarded a Kimball King Undergraduate Research Award to support her senior honors thesis research project, “Longing for Hope”, supervised by Prof. Michael Vazquez.
Read the article about the Parr Center and the National High School Ethics Bowl here.
Read the interview here. And you can purchase his new book featured in this interview here.
View the public Philosophy event featuring Luc Bovens here.
Congratulations to graduate students Logan Mitchell, Aaron Thieme, Delaney Thull, and Aurora Yu who were named 2022-2023 Maynard Adams Fellows for the Public Humanities. Please read more here.
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Susan Wolf who recently won the Lauener Prize! See the official announcement here.
It is with profound soundness that the Department announces the death of our colleague and friend, Prof. Geoff Brennan. Since January 2006, Geoff was a Research Professor at both UNC and Duke, where he served as a Core Faculty member … Read more
We are delighted to share the latest installment of the Parr Center’s Ethical Dilemma series with TED-Ed, this time on the ethics of lying with Center Director and UNC philosopher Sarah Stroud, found here. Check out the video’s supplemental educational … Read more
Congratulations to our newest philosophy major Phi Beta Kappa inductees! They are as follows: Fall 2021 Christina Barta, Katherine M. Leonard, Lucas K. Thornton, Emma M. Welter Spring 2022 Yixiao Jin, Tara Murray, Samuel S. Timmons, Noah R. Upchurch, Zhuofan … Read more
We are incredibly excited to share the second video in our Ethical Dilemma Series with TED-Ed. UNC philosopher, Alex Worsnip, invites us to ponder the ethics of belief with a gripping new dilemma, and adds several new concepts to our … Read more
