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A New Student Podcast: Pit Perspectives

September 20, 2022

…responses, ideally avoiding a simple “yes/no” dichotomy. The topic is easily accessible to the average UNC student. [gem_button text=”Learn More Here” position=”center” size=”large” corner=”3″ icon_pack=”elegant” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pitperspectivesunc.com%2F|title:LEARN%20MORE%20HERE” text_color=”#ffffff” hover_text_color=”#dbdbdb” background_color=”#001342″ hover_background_color=”#606060″]…

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/  …

PPE Program in the News

February 15, 2018

The PPE Program has been featured in the University Gazette! Two current PPE students – Brenee Goforth and Malik Jabati – presented alongside program director Geoff Sayre-McCord at the February…

Fall Reading Groups

August 22, 2016

…Moral and Political Philosophy. The groups will meet over dinner (at Gourmet Kingdom in Carrboro). The readings will be provided and the cost of dinner will be covered. Space is…

Why PPE?

October 20, 2012

…international agencies, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations. It also introduces students to the role that traditions of thought and political ideologies have played in shaping our understanding of politics in…

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…

PPE looking to fill new senior position

January 10, 2017

…accomplished scholar with specialties in moral and political philosophy, who has research and teaching interests that fall at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics. Further information is available HERE….

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Brennan (1944-2022)

August 2, 2022

…and the growing field of “behavioral economics” later in the ’90s, which developed into scholarship at the intersection of philosophy of social science and ethics. He published several books in…

PPE Undergraduate Colloquium

February 24, 2016

…Chapel Hill. The papers we read included a classic book excerpt from Mancur Olson, and contemporary articles by Carol Rose, Elinor Ostrom, and David Schmidtz. “I had an incredible time…