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Balter Distinguished Lecture: Juliana Bidadanure (Stanford)

Title: Justice Across Ages Optional sub-title: What Does it Mean to Treat Young and Old as Equals? Abstract: Age structures our lives and societies. It shapes social institutions, roles, and relationships, as well as how we assign obligations and entitlements … Read more

Speaker Series: Tyler Burge (UCLA)

Title:  A Map of Lower Representational Mind Abstract: Lower Representational Mind is roughly the system of mental capacities that are less complex, less sophisticated, and more widespread in the animal kingdom, than propositional attitudes.  Lower representational mind centers in perception.  … Read more

Beginning of Year Speaker: Thi Nguyen

Caldwell 105 ,

Title:  Value Capture Abstract:  Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle — or developing in that direction. The agent enters a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those values; and those … Read more

Philosophy in 15 Minutes

Gerrard Hall

Join the UNC Philosophy department for a series of short presentations on intriguing Philosophical ideas. Refreshments provided after the event.   Program (1) Welcome and Introduction: Matt Kotzen (Host) (2) Nathan Harrison: introducing the Philosophy Club (3) Erik Zhang (15 … Read more

Speaker Series: Rima Basu

Caldwell 105 ,

Title: Epistemic Ethics: Methods, Motivations, and the Malcontents Abstract: Philippa Foot (1972, 316) once remarked upon “an element of deception in the official line about morality”. An element, she argues, that causes some to turn away from talk about the authority of … Read more