Parr Center Lecture: Robin Jeshion
Caldwell 105 ,"What's Wrong With Slurs?"
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Parr Center Lecture: Erin Kelly
Hyde Hall, University Room“The Failure of Retributive Justice” The belief that people convicted of crimes deserve punishment is commonplace. Yet the punitive conception of individual responsibility commonly associated with retributive justice exaggerates the moral meaning of criminal guilt, normalizes excessive punishment, and distracts … Read more
Parr Center Lecture: Maggie Little
Hyde Hall University Room"A Plea for Translational Ethics" Philosophical ethics, like philosophy as a whole, is sometimes caricatured as an overly abstract and theoretical enterprise. In fact it has always cared about “the real world”; but its modes and methodologies of engaging with … Read more
Parr Center Forum: The Education of the Emotions — Christine Tappolet (Univ. of Montreal) and Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke)
Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel HillChristine Tappolet, “Affective Knowledge in Ethics and the Plasticity of Emotions” Gopal Sreenivasan, “Plasticity and Perfection: Emotions and the Moral Life”
Parr Center Presents: Ian Leahy
Murphey 116“Tree Equity: Overcoming a Legacy of Environmental Injustice in Cities” As the climate heats, trees in cities are rapidly transitioning from background aesthetics to life-saving infrastructure. Yet a map of tree cover in any US city is too often a … Read more
2023 NHSEB National Championship
Carolina Union auditoriumJoin us March 31-April 2, 2023 for the NHSEB National Championship on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. More information about this event is available here.
2024 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl
UNC Chapel HillJoin us on the UNC Chapel Hill campus on January 27, 2024 for the 2024 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl. Learn more about this event here. Additional details, final match locations, etc., are coming later in 2023. … Read more
2024 NHSEB National Championship
Graham Student UnionJoin us on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus for the 2024 National High School Ethics Bowl Championship! More information about this event is forthcoming in Fall 2023.