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Fostering ongoing inquiry into important ethical issues in private and public life and supporting teaching, research, and discussion of ethics and human values throughout the curriculum and across the disciplines at Princeton University. Learn more >
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The Tanner Lectures at Princeton University will be held the week after Thanksgiving. History of Science Professor, Naomi Oreskes, will deliver the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values, with four distinguished commentators.
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The Center's Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics was interviewed by "Quartz" on the ethical argument for working for the Trump administration.
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"In characterizing the problem of intolerance within a republic, Rousseau wrote, 'It is impossible to live in peace with people one believes to be damned.'
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UCHV's Victoria McGeer's "Philosophical Explorations" article "Mind-Making Practices: The Social Infrastructure of Self-Knowing, Agency and Responsibility" was chosen for the Philosopher's Annual 2015 top ten list.
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Events
Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 7:30 pm
Location: Rocky Theater
Wed, Nov 30, 2016,
4:30 pm to 6:15 pm
Location: McCormick Hall, Room 101
Thu, Dec 1, 2016,
4:30 pm to 6:15 pm
Location: McCormick Hall, Room 101
Fri, Dec 2, 2016 (All day) to Sun, Dec 4, 2016 (All day)
Location: TBD
News
Friday, Nov 18, 2016
Doctoral candidate Jason Iuliano and politics undergraduate Ya Sheng Lin publish article together that examines the phenomenon of "Supreme Court Repeaters."
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016
Author of What is Populism, Professor Jan-Werner Mueller is giving many talks on populism here and abroad.
Monday, Oct 31, 2016
Anyone who makes an outstanding contribution to promoting knowledge, reason or public debate about issues that matter can nominate someone for Philosophy Now's 'Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity' award.
Monday, Sep 12, 2016
Last month, the paper that certificate student Kevin Wong '17 wrote for his VPL seminar "Bioethics: Clinical and Population Level," with Professor J. Frick, received attention as a highly commended paper.
This paper was recently selected as a regional winner, from the US and Canada, in the categories of law and philosophy.
Friday, Sep 2, 2016
Jan-Werner Mueller, Professor of Politics, writes in The Guardian about Populists as different elites who try to grab power with the help of a collective fantasy of political purity.
