Jennifer Morton, The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility In this talk, I argue that there are ethical costs upwardly mobile students must bear if they are to dramatically transform their life circumstances. These costs affect their relationships with family and friends, … Read more
The Carolina Forum for Ethics presents a panel discussion on Moral Obligations to Returning Veterans featuring Wayne E. Lee, Hilary Lithgow, and Albie Maslan. Please join us as we examine the ethical duties that civilians, colleges/universities, our society, and our government owe to returning veterans. This event is … Read more
Syllabus Design and Learning Goals Jessi Addison, Aliosha Barranco López, and Tamara Fakhoury will lead this workshop on integrating syllabus design. We’ll focus on identifying key learning goals and using them to backwards design a syllabus. Lunch will be provided!
Leave No Trace (Brief description from Rotten Tomatoes) Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are … Read more
This is a small research workshop to discuss works in progress. We will be discussing papers by Julia Driver, Zöe Johnson King, Stephanie Leary, Sarah McGrath, and Sarah Stroud Other out of town participants include Jan Dowell, Jamie Dreier, Robert Johnson, … Read more
Consider This…Artificial Intelligence As machines start learning more, and do more, their impact and influence will continue to grow. How is this technology showing up in our lives? Is this growing knowledge and influence something to embrace or to approach … Read more
"Trust, Anger, Resentment, Forgiveness: On Blame and its Reasons" Abstract: A discussion of the scope that exists for the normative assessment of blame. The paper starts from the assumption that blame is to be understood in terms of the reactive … Read more
Conceptual Amelioration: Going on, Not in the Same Way In this paper I argue that there are two ways to think about conceptual amelioration on a model according to which the content of a concept is to be understood as … Read more
Classroom Pedagogy: Fostering Fruitful Classroom Discussion In-class discussion are a key part of any teacher’s pedagogical toolkit. But why—what purpose do they serve? What makes for a good, or bad, classroom discussion, and how can we ensure we get the … Read more
A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Quayshawn Spencer Abstract. Recent work in population genetics has revealed that the human species naturally subdivides into five major biological populations: Africans, Caucasians, East Asians, Native Americans, and Oceanians. Since the discovery of … Read more
