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Teaching Workshop

213 Caldwell Hall

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!

Philosophy @ the Movies: Leave No Trace

Caldwell 105 ,

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

Chapel Hill MetaEthics Workshop

Hyde Hall, University Room

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

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

Speaker Series: R. Jay Wallace (Berkeley)

Caldwell 105 ,

"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

Speaker Series: Sally Haslanger (MIT)

213 Caldwell Hall

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

Teaching Workshop

213 Caldwell Hall

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

Speaker Series: Quayshawn Spencer (Penn)

213 Caldwell Hall

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

Red/Blue Workshop

213 Caldwell Hall

Held in collaboration with Better Angels, this workshop brings together 5-7 self-identified conservative-leaning students and 5-7 self-identified liberal-leaning students for a day of moderated activities and discussions that clarify disagreements, reduce stereotyped thinking, and begin building the relationships needed to find common … Read more

Parr Center Presents: Jason Smith

Murphey 116

Changing our Food Perspectives: A different view on eating and farming Food production is currently one of the main contributors of carbon emissions in the world, yet simple adjustments can make food a carbon sequestering tool instead of a contributor.  Join … Read more