Chapel Hill PPE Workshop

An intensive one-day workshop for faculty and graduate students on papers in progress by our PPE Teaching Assistant Professors. Click the title links below to review abstracts for each talk.

Agenda:

• 8:30 am
  Breakfast and Conversation: RISE Biscuits and Coffee
• 9:00 – 10:20 am
  Erik Zhang, “Promising and Normative Powers”
  
• 10:30 – 11:50 am
  Giulia Napolitano, “Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda“
• 12:00 – 1:00 pm
  Lunch in or around Caldwell Hall
• 1:00 – 2:20 pm
  Gerard Rothfus, “Rationality and Ratifiability”
• 2:30 – 3:50 pm
  Lucy Schwarz, “The Inefficacy Objection and New Ethical Veganism”
• 4:00 – 5:20 pm
  Kirun Sankaran, “Cash Rules Everything Around Me (And I Feel Fine): Commodification and Emergent Values”
• 6:00 pm
  Dinner

The registration form is available HERE. Please do register so that we have the information for venue and meal planning.