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Film Screening: Blade Runner

213 Caldwell Hall

Please join us for a screening and discussion of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, led by professor C.D.C. Reeve.  Pizza will be served, and all are welcome!

Early Career Ethics Workshop

Caldwell 208

Barry Maguire will lead a workshop on early career ethics. Refreshments will be provided. Attendance is limited; all participants must email Barry Maguire prior to attending.

Practice Job Talk: Craig Warmke

213 Caldwell Hall

Craig Warmke will present his talk, "Modal Intensionalism". Abstract: A possible world is a way the world could have been. Given that there are infinitely many ways the world could have been, a proposition is necessary according to possible worlds … Read more

Metaethics Workshop 2014

This is a workshop to discuss work in progress by Sarah Buss (Michigan), Jamie Dreier (Brown), Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts), Michael Smith (Princeton), and Katia Vavova (Mount Holyoke). Other out of town participants include Agnes Callard, Matthew Chrisman, Jonathan Dancy, Janice … Read more

Practice Job Talk: Jen Kling

213 Caldwell Hall

Jen Kling will present, "Supreme Emergencies? They Don’t Exist. And Even If They Did…" Abstract: In this paper, I discuss non-combatant immunity in extreme wartime situations. Contra several well-known just war theorists, I argue that intentionally attacking non-combatants, even in … Read more

Early Career Ethics Workshop

Caldwell 208

Barry Maguire will lead a workshop on early career ethics. Refreshments will be provided. Attendance is limited; all participants must email Barry Maguire prior to attending.

North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl

UNC - Chapel Hill

High school students from across the state will travel to UNC - Chapel Hill to compete in the annual North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl. Learn more about the Ethics Bowl program, and volunteer to participate as a judge, moderator, … Read more

Speaker Series: Janum Sethi, “Kant on Empirical Self-Consciousness”

213 Caldwell Hall

Janum Sethi (University of California - Berkeley) will present a talk, "Kant on Empirical Self-Consciousness". A reception will follow. Abstract: Kant is often acknowledged as being the first to clearly distinguish between two kinds of self-consciousness: consciousness of oneself as … Read more

PPE Talk: Bas Van der Vossen

Caldwell 105 ,

"Community in Market Society" Professor Van der Vossen works in political philosophy, focusing on the justification of property rights and of the moral dimensions of international affairs.

Parr Center Talk: Russ Shafer-Landau

Caldwell 105 ,

Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin/Madison, works in metaethics and moral theory. He is the author of The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford, 2012) and its companion volume,  The Ethical Life (Oxford, 2012) written to introduce people … Read more