Grace & Graciousness: Goodness in Loving the Bad Grace is love that is not fully explained by the excellence of its objects. Indeed, as I will argue, one can experience forms of grace toward an object in full awareness … Read more
Please join the Parr Center for Ethics for a discussion of race, sentencing, and mass incarceration in the United States. Our panel includes Tamar Birckhead (UNC Law), Joe Kennedy (UNC Law), Jim Woodall (District Attorney, Orange and Chatham Counties), and … Read more
"North Carolina's Greatest Challenge" Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor of law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina. From 2005-2008, he was president of the College of William and … Read more
Chris Blake-Turner will present, "Killing, Letting Die, and Moral Luck". All graduate students are encouraged to attend; lunch will be provided.
"Democracy Beyond Law" Political philosophers from diverse tradition have long defended the democratic control of the state. In particular, many have argued that democracy promotes individual freedom by providing subjects with the power to control the state's interference in their activities. … Read more
"Metaphysical Explanation by Constraint" Metaphysical explanation has enjoyed a surge of recent interest. But attention paid to metaphysical explanation has focused nearly exclusively on just one kind: those that work by providing information about what grounds what. Not all metaphysical … Read more
"Edenic Idealism" In this paper, I develop a novel semantic form of idealism about ordinary objects. According to edenic idealism, our ordinary object terms refer to items in the manifest world: the world of primitive objects and properties presented to … Read more
This event has been cancelled due to the power outage in Caldwell Hall and the inclement weather. We will reschedule this event - please stay tuned for this film screening to be re-calendared! --- Join us on Wednesday, January 20 … Read more
Join us for a Parr Center "Ethics Around the Table" event! Lunch will be provided, and registration is kindly required. Barry Maguire will present, "Eating Too Much, Sleeping Too Little, Avoiding the Dentist, and other Abstract Philosophical Puzzles" Abstract: I … Read more
Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion about the ethical implications of the naming of university facilities. Our expert panelists include: Al Brophy (Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law) Fitz Brundage (William B. Umstead Professor of History and … Read more
