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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 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…

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…

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/  …

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…

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…