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October 2022
Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 Chapman Hall, Room 201 3:00 - 5:00 PM Talk: "No-Fault Epistemic Akrasia," David Christensen (Brown University) Comments by Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder), followed by Q&A 5:30 - 7:30 PM Talk: "The Reasons We Cannot Share," Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University) Comments by Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh), followed by Q&A 8:00 PM Dinner Reception at Horace Williams House SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022 Murphey Hall, Room 116 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Talk: "Beauvoir on…
Find out more »A Parr Center Special Presentation: An Evening with Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place
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Find out more »PPE Speaker Series: “Taking Hamlet out of the Play: In Defense of a Substantive Conception of the Rule of Law” with Carmen Pavel
Speaker: Carmen Pavel King’s College London This talk counts as a Campus Life Experience (CLE) event for UNC undergraduates. Abstract: The rule of law has implications for how we evaluate in practice the acceptability of various legal systems. The philosophical debate about the appropriate content of the rule of law has failed to capture the multidimensional character of the rule of law. The dominant view, one shared by Lon F. Fuller, Joseph Raz, H.L.A. Hart, F.A. Hayek and others is…
Find out more »Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health: “Absurdity and Meaning” with Dr. Kieran Setiya
Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health: "Absurdity and Meaning" with Dr. Kieran Setiya, Professor and Section Head of Philosophy at MIT Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:00pm Contact daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu for Zoom link It is a cliché about philosophers that they ponder the meaning of life. Except they don’t. In recent philosophy, the question of life’s meaning is usually dismissed as nonsense; and for most earlier philosophers, the question doesn’t arise. In this talk, I’ll use the…
Find out more »November 2022
Ethics Around the Table: Rosalind Chaplin (UNC, Philosophy)
Lunch will be served. More information here.
Find out more »Parr Center Presents: Robin Zheng (University of Glasgow), “The Power of Solidarity: How You and I Can Change the World”
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Find out more »January 2023
2023 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl
Join us on January 28, 2023 for the 2023 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl. Registration will open this Fall, and more information about the event is available here.
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