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
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
Development’s New Initiative: Changing Harmful Social Norms For organizations like UNICEF and the World Bank, social norms can be a severe impediment to development goals. For this reason, these agencies have invested in finding the tools necessary to change harmful … Read more
"How We Ought to Live: The Meanings and Matters of Life" will serve as the underlying theme for a panel with Jane Thrailkill and Tyler Curtain, in support of our keynote talk by Susan Wolf, whose Meaning in Life and … Read more
Ethics Around the Table: David Schmidtz, “The Pretense of Consent”What terms of engagement are appropriate for people who don’t even agree on what terms of engagement are appropriate? The question is not cute. It’s a real question at heart of … Read more
Amy Perko has served as executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics since 2005. Having served in various leadership positions in sports for 25 years, Perko is a recognized leader on college sports issues. In 2012, Perko received … Read more
Kurt Gray's research suggests these are the same question: minds are perceived along two dimensions—agency (the ability to act and plan) and experience (the capacity to feel things like pain and pleasure)—and these two dimensions form the core of moral … Read more
Ann Cudd is the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies as well as the University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. She is also an affiliated faculty member with the Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Program. … Read more
Dr. Meier’s interdisciplinary research—at the intersection of international law, public policy, and global health—examines human rights frameworks for global health governance. Advancing rights-based frameworks for public health, he has written and presented extensively on the development, evolution, and implementation of … Read more
Top teams from across the country travel to UNC-Chapel Hill to compete in the third annual National High School Ethics Bowl, hosted by the Parr Center. Learn more about the Ethics Bowl program, and get involved by serving as a … Read more
