Events
PPE Speaker Series: “An Egalitarian Case for the Gendered Division of Labor” with Jessica Flanigan (University of Richmond)
In some subcultures, women are encouraged to stay home and raise multiple children and men are encouraged to work outside the home.Proponents of these gendered family subcultures argue that a gendered division of labor (GDL) is generally an efficient way … Read more
Philosophy Department Graduation
Murhey Hall, room 116 204 Lenoir Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesCome celebrate our 2023 graduates! The ceremony will begin at 1:00pm with an outdoor reception to follow.
Thomas Hofweber at Carolina Data Science Now
The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around the study, use, and applications of artificial intelligence in the fields of philosophy, pathology, and physics. These talks will be followed by … Read more
Beginning of the Year Speaker: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)
Caldwell 105 ,Title: “Belonging to the Future by Changing the Past” Abstract: This talk was sparked by my recently reading Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus for the first time since high school. I’d never forgotten the first two sentences: “There is but one truly serious … Read more
Chapel Hill PPE Workshop
An intensive one-day workshop for faculty and graduate students on papers-in-progress by our PPE Teaching Assistant Professors. Agenda: 8:30 am Breakfast and Conversation 9:00 – 10:20 am Erik Zhang, “Promising to Do Wrong” 10:30 – 11:50 am Samuel Dishaw, “Solidarity … Read more
PPE Speaker Series: “How Economics Can Save the World” with Erik Angner (Stockholm University)
Caldwell 105 ,Abstract: Economics has always been shadowed by a movement denouncing its practitioners, attacking its assumptions, rejecting its conclusions, and protesting its influence. Historian of economics William Oliver Coleman calls the movement anti-economics. But what used to be an innocent pastime … Read more
The Second International Behavioral Public Policy Conference
Please see the conference website for information here.
AI Project Reading Group
ZoomWe will discuss Cynthia Rudin’s article “Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead” Email Thomas Hofweber for more details.
PPE General Information Meeting
Caldwell 105 ,Want to understand the complex world in which we live? Consider UNC’s five-course minor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics that lets you satisfy Gen. Ed. requirements with an assortment of courses that together add up to more than the sum of their parts. The PPE … Read more