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Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…woman’s best career option is to marry a man. As soon as she’s married, all of her hard-earned wages legally become her husband’s. A woman in this world cannot legally…

PPE Courses

July 31, 2023

…social responsibility, legal authority, civil authority, civil disobedience. Readings include classical and contemporary writings. Honors version available Offered This Semester: Yes Section: 001 Credits: 3 Grading: Letter Gen Ed: FC-VALUES;…

Congratulations, Professor Jen Morton!

November 1, 2020

Please join us in congratulating PPE Professor Jen Morton, whose book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Cost of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press), has just been awarded…

Congratulations to SURF Award Winner Eleanor Rankin!

June 21, 2023

…philosophical justification for lower court plea bargains? Using game theory as the predominate means of PPE principles, Eleanor’s research will engage with and dispute the traditional philosophical and legal reasoning…

Opportunities

November 10, 2017

…will be provided and the cost of dinner will be covered. Each group will meet eight times over the course of the semester for approximately an hour and a half…

A New Student Podcast: Pit Perspectives

September 20, 2022

…relevant social issues facing college students at UNC and across the country. Pit Perspectives started with an observation- at a school as large as UNC, students tend to form small…

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

October 29, 2021

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2021/10/29/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-223-students-into-phi-beta-kappa/  …

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

April 14, 2022

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2022/04/12/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-236-into-elite-honorary-society/  …

Giving

October 2, 2018

…PPE course that helps students think about the social, political and moral role of giving in today’s world.  Please consider making a gift online to the Charles M. Shaffer Jr. Distinguished…