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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, Professor Jen Morton!

November 1, 2020

…the 2021 Frederic W. Ness Book Award for the year’s book that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. More information here: https://www.aacu.org/press/press-releases/aacu-announces-winner-2021-frederic-w-ness-book-award Book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179230/moving-up-without-losing-your-way Book…

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!

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/  …

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…

PPETP

March 18, 2021

…have moved online, and to establish a prominent public forum for timely and informed philosophical conversations about life in the shadow of the coronavirus. The PPE Program would like to…

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 in a Time of Pandemic

July 9, 2020

…now that the university has moved online, and to establish a prominent public forum for timely and informed philosophical conversations about life in the shadow of the coronavirus. The PPE…