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 … Read more
Dr. Lederer will deliver the 2016 UNC-Duke Nannerl Keohane Lecture on February 10, 2016, from 5:30-7:00 in Gerrard Hall, 106 E. Cameron Street, on the UNC Campus. Her topic will be, "Human Bodies and the State in 20th century America". … 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
Gina Schouten will present, "Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor". This event is free and open to all. Pizza will be provided. Abstract: Despite women’s increased labor force participation, household divisions of labor remain highly unequal. This persistent … Read more
This is an intensive one day seminar on “Equality: Whether and Why It Matters” for undergraduates. Professor Barry Maguire will be leading the discussion. 1% of US citizens have 40% of the nation’s wealth. The bottom 80% only have 7% … Read more
Christopher Freiman will present, "Should States Allow Markets in Citizenship?" Christopher Freiman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary. Professor Freiman's research interests include democratic theory, distributive justice, and applied ethics - for a complete bio, please visit his … 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 partial … Read more
This is a workshop to discuss work in progress. Out of town participants include: Sahar Akhtar (Virginia), Guy Axtell (Radford College), Jason Brennan (Georgetown), Randy Dipert (SUNY – Buffalo), Amanda Greene (University College, London), Javier Hidalgo (Richmond), Meena Krishnamurthy (Michigan), … Read more
