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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

Chapel Hill Metaethics Workshop

Hyde Hall University Room

The first annual "CHillMeta" will be held at UNC on October 30 – November 1, 2015.  Please see the conference website for complete workshop information.

Ethics Around the Table: Kurt Gray, “Mind Perception and Morality”

Hyde Hall University Room

Kurt Gray's research suggests these are the same question: minds are perceived along two dimensions—agency (the ability to act and plan) and experience (the capacity to feel things like pain and pleasure)—and these two dimensions form the core of moral … Read more

Reasons in a Humean World Workshop

Hyde Hall University Room

A small workshop on whether a full account of reasons requires more than a Humean world could provide. Participants include Simon Blackburn, Jamie Drier, Michael Gill, Thomas Hill, Rae Langton, Robert Johnson, Kate Manne, Geoff Sayre-McCord, Michael Smith, Valerie Tiberius,  … Read more