The PPE Program and Carolina Public Humanities are hosting a workshop on February 8 looking at the opioid crisis through the lens of the humanities. We hope to bring together a unique and interdisciplinary set of voices to discuss the opioid crisis from … Read more
The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institute released "A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream." The PPE Program is hosting a one day intensive seminar, with two of the co-authors, Robert Doar (AEI) and Richard … Read more
The full video of Dr. Cowen's talk at Hyde Hall is available on YouTube here. In this talk, Tyler Cowen outlined the basic premises and claims of his latest book, The Complacent Class. Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted … Read more
Matthew Adler will present, “Fairness, Claims and Prioritarianism: Accounting for Responsibility and Desert” Abstract: The literature on “luck egalitarianism” seeks to refine criteria of distributive justice so as to take account of differential individual responsibility and/or desert. Intuitively, as between … Read more
"Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods" Professor Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, works broadly in political theory and philosophy. His books include The Common Mind (OUP 1996), Republicanism (OUP 1997), … Read more
"The Problem of Revolution and Liberty: Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr." Peter C. Myers is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is the author of Our Only Star and Compass: … Read more
This will be a public event exploring the questions raised by attempts both to measure happiness and well-being and to use such measures in thinking about public policy. Pizza will be served. Invited speakers: Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor … Read more
