Katie Bunyea

Teams from across the state of North Carolina will travel to UNC - Chapel Hill to compete on January 30, 2016 (rescheduled from 1/23 due to inclement weather), in an annual event hosted by the Parr Center. If you are … Read more

What are trigger warnings, and what are the costs and benefits of integrating them into our teaching? More generally, what should we do when the need to confront uncomfortable ideas in the classroom seems to conflict with the need to … Read more

Matthew Adler will present, “Fairness, Claims and Prioritarianism: Accounting for Responsibility and Desert” Abstract: The literature on “luck egalitarianism” seeks to refine criteria of distributive justice so as to take account of differential individual responsibility and/or desert.   Intuitively, as between … Read more

Join us for a Parr Center "Ethics Around the Table" presentation: Slippery Slopes to Sleep Deprivation: Why Good People do Bad Things at Work Mike Christian’s research focuses on understanding how energy, engagement, self-control and other self-regulatory processes affect behavior … Read more

Difficult Faculty Conversations: Objectivity in the Classroom   What is the meaning and value of objectivity in the classroom? Should college instructors aspire to be as neutral as possible in our presentation of course material, or can we permissibly be … Read more

Kimberley Brownlee  is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her recent work has focused on civil disobedience, conscience, conviction, and punishment. Her current work focuses on social rights, freedom of association, and social virtues. She is the author of Conscience and … Read more