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Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…– infamous, rigorous, hilarious. But like many classics, it is often misunderstood, or remembered only in slivers. We will read Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover-to-cover in hopes of getting a…

PPE Courses

July 31, 2023

…is law? Does it serve justice or undermine it? Can punishment be justified? When is a person responsible? Honors version available Credits: 3 Grading: Letter Gen Ed: No Justice in…

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…

Inaugural PPE Philanthropy Project: Foundations

July 10, 2024

…focus contribute to overall well-being or have indirect benefits to alleviating poverty? Does Maslow’s hierarchy allow for work on multiple levels at once? Is it important to provide a sense…

PPE Salons

March 25, 2021

…https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/03/4-2-wpv_x.png Is Free Speech under Threat on College Campuses? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/03/2-2-wpv_x.png Bitcoin: What Does the Future Hold? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/09/Copy-of-PPE-Salon-Ads-2-wpv_x.png Afghanistan and American Foreign Policy: What Does the Future Hold? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/11/FBI-Facebook-Cover-Facebook-Cover-2-wpv_x.png How Responsible…

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…

Five New PPE Faculty in 2021!

September 16, 2021

…from Queen’s University in Canada. Erik’s primary research interests are in normative ethics and practical normativity, including the ethics of interpersonal trade-offs, the ethics of risk-impositions, promissory obligations, the nature…

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/  …

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/  …