The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles Justin Erlich discusses ways to meet some of the ethical and legal challenges presented by the emergence of various sorts of autonomous vehicles in urban life. Erlich is Vice President of Strategy (Policy, Legal, Communications) … Read more
The 52nd annual Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy will be held October 26-28, 2018. Registration: General registration is $150, including meals (with the option to add a reception/dinner guest for $15 additional). GENERAL REGISTRATION: click here to register. If you are … Read more
Market economies have made us rich, but have they done so at the cost of our souls? Office Space offers a comedic glimpse into the lives of corporate employees who hate their jobs and finally decide to do something about it. Starring … Read more
According to tradition, the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy used to get together every November 7th to celebrate Plato’s birthday. This year some modern Platonists (aka the students enrolled in PHIL 60) will be gathering on November 7th to … Read more
Robin Celikates, Can Digital Disobedience Be Civil? In recent years the Internet has not only expanded the repertoire of contestation by providing new tools for political protest, it has also emerged as an object and arena of contestation in its … Read more
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
