UCHV News

  1. February 8, 2012 VPL Student Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

    Jane Abbottsmith, a religion major and a senior in the Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program, was recently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. ...

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  2. January 25, 2012 UCHV Accepting Applications for Graduate Prize Fellowships

    The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2012.  The Graduate Prize Fellowship program is ...

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  3. December 21, 2011 VPDT Larry Temkin Publishes "Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning"

    Larry Temkin, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, published his book Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical ...

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  4. December 8, 2011 Oxford University Press Publishes Book Written by Pettit, List

    Oxford University Press recently announced the publication of Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, written by Christian List and Philip Pettit. The ...

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  5. November 15, 2011 Peter Brooks' "Enigmas of Identity" Published

    Princeton University Press recently published Peter Brooks’ book Enigmas of Identity, which addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of...

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  6. November 3, 2011 Melissa Lane's "Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living" Published

    Melissa Lane’s book Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living was published this month by Princeton University Press.  ...

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  7. October 10, 2011 UCHV and WWS Announce Postdoctoral Program in Values and Public Policy

    The University Center for Human Values and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs announce a program of postdoctoral appointments in Values ...

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  8. September 30, 2011 Eric Gregory Joins UCHV Executive Committee

    Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion, has been appointed to the Executive Committee for the University Center for Human Values for a four year term ...

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  9. September 21, 2011 Peter Singer's Animal Liberation Named in TIME Magazine Book List

    Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation (1975) has been included in TIME Magazine’s recent list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.

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  10. August 4, 2011 American Public Media's Civil Conversations Project Features Appiah

    American Public Media’s program Krista Tippett on Being will feature Tippett’s conversation with Professor Anthony Appiah entitled “Sidling up to Difference” this month from ...

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  11. July 19, 2011 Scheppele Elected to International Academy of Comparative Law

    Kim Lane Scheppele is one of five Americans recently elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a group of...

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  12. July 1, 2011 UCHV Announces Sarah McGrath as Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor

    Sarah McGrath, assistant professor of philosophy, has been named Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor for the three-year period beginning in July 2011. The appointment...

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  13. July 1, 2011 Marc Fleurbaey Named to UCHV Joint Faculty and Executive Committee

    Professor Marc Fleurbaey joins UCHV’s joint faculty  in July 2011 as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for ...

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  14. May 17, 2011 UCHV's Social Issue Filmmaking Class Featured on Princeton Homepage

    UCHV’s Social Issue Filmmaking class is currently the feature story on the Princeton University homepage. Taught by Emily Abt during the spring 2011 semester, ...

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  15. May 16, 2011 Mueller to Debate Constitutional Patriotism

    Jan-Werner Mueller, a member of the UCHV executive committee, will debate the concept of constitutional patriotism with the president of the German parliament in ...

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  16. April 29, 2011 Beitz Awarded Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize

    Charles Beitz, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values, has been awarded the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book ...

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  17. April 25, 2011 Pettit and List’s "Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents" published

        Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, and Christian List, a former Laurance S. Rockefeller ...

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  18. April 20, 2011 UCHV Announces Graduate Prize Fellows for 2011-2012 Academic Year

    The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center’s 2011-12 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.

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  19. March 25, 2011 University Recognizes VPL Program

    The UCHV has been awarded a grant from the University’s 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education to support development of the Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program.

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  20. March 14, 2011 A New Look at Niebuhr’s Legacy

    Scholars from several disciplines met in February to discuss the enduring influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most important Protestant theologians of the ...

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  21. March 3, 2011 UCHV Announces Visitors for 2011-12 Academic Year

     The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2011-12. Our visiting colleagues will devote a ...

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  22. March 1, 2011 Values and Public Life Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications

    The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for the undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life from sophomores in all disciplines.

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  23. February 28, 2011 Nan Keohane’s "Thinking about Leadership" published

    Nan Keohane’s book Thinking about Leadership was published in December by Princeton University Press.  The book brings together Keohane’s training and professional vocation as ...

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  24. February 28, 2011 Quong Publishes Liberalism without Perfection

    Jonathan Quong, currently an LSR Visiting Fellow at UCHV, recently published his first book, Liberalism without Perfection, with Oxford University Press. The book provides ...

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  25. February 28, 2011 LSR Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Editor of A Political Companion to Walt Whitman

    The University Press of Kentucky recently published A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by John Seery, UCHV’s LSR Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching. ...

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  26. February 28, 2011 Appiah Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences

     Professor Anthony Appiah was recently appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Commission ...

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  27. February 4, 2011 UCHV Accepting Applications for Graduate Prize Fellowships

    The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2011.

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  28. February 1, 2011 Times Higher Education on Marti-Pettit book

    Philip Pettit and José Luis Martí's book Republicanism was the subject of a recent article in Times Higher Education.

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  29. December 7, 2010 Foreign Policy Magazine Names Appiah among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010

    Kwame Anthony Appiah was recently named in Foreign Policy magazine’s list of top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010 for framing an ethics code relevant ...

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  30. December 3, 2010 Pettit and Marti’s “A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain” Named One of the Best Economics and Politics Books of 2010

    José Luis Martí and Philip Pettit's recent book “A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain” has been recognized as one ...

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  31. November 17, 2010 "The Limits of Constitutional Democracy" released

    The Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the release of The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, a volume of essays co-edited by Stephen ...

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  32. October 19, 2010 Values and Public Life Undergraduate Certificate Program Announces Inaugural Class

    UCHV is pleased to announce the students of the inaugural Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program class in 2010-11. Selected from a pool ...

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  33. September 29, 2010 Appiah Publishes Book on Honor and Moral Change

    Kwame Anthony Appiah’s much-anticipated book on honor and moral change was recently published by W.W. Norton. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen is ...

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  34. September 13, 2010 Values and Public Life Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications

    The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for the undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life from rising juniors and seniors in ...

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  35. July 1, 2010 Harman Appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy and UCHV

    Elizabeth Harman has been appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values. A Princeton faculty member since 2006, Harman focuses her work ...

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  36. May 25, 2010 Leo Strauss Prize Awarded to Mazor for Dissertation

    Joseph Mazor, a 2009-2010 UCHV Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values, was named the winner of the American Political Science Association's Leo ...

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  37. May 17, 2010 Pettit Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

    Philip Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in Political ...

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  38. May 3, 2010 Graduate Prize Fellows for 2010-2011 Announced

      The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center’s Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students ...

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  39. May 1, 2010 Appiah Honored for Achievement in Humanitites

    Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, recently received Princeton's Howard T. ...

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  40. April 30, 2010 Gutmann Lectures, Marks Center's Anniversary

    In celebration of the University Center for Human Values' 20th Anniversary, Center founder and UPenn President Dr. Amy Gutmann delivered a James A. Moffett Lecture ...

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  41. April 20, 2010 UCHV Visitors for 2010-11 Academic Year

    The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2010-11. Our visiting colleagues will devote a ...

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  42. April 19, 2010 University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to Deliver James A. Moffett Lecture

    Dr. Amy Gutmann's upcoming James A. Moffett Lecture in Ethics is featured in the Princeton University Bulletin. To read more, visit: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/12/62M54/index.xml?section=announcements

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  43. March 4, 2010 Laura Valentini Receives UK Political Studies Association's Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Theory

    Laura Valentini, UCHV Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values, was recently awarded the UK Political Studies Association's Sir Ernest Barker Prize for ...

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  44. September 9, 2009 Melissa Lane Joins Executive Committee

    Professor Melissa Lane joined the Politics Department in August 2009, as well as the Center’s Executive Committee. Her main works include Method and Politics ...

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  45. July 1, 2009 Charles Beitz is Named Director of UCHV

    Professor Charles Beitz, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, has been named director of the University Center for Human Values, effective July 1, 2009.   Professor Beitz ...

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  46. May 1, 2009 UCHV Awards the 2009-2010 Graduate Prize Fellowships

    Graduate Prize Fellowships, made possible by a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller '32, are awarded to excellent doctoral students at Princeton who are working ...

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  47. April 29, 2009 2009-2010 Visiting Faculty and Fellows Announced

    The University Center for Human Values at Princeton University is pleased to announce its visiting faculty, visiting faculty fellows, and visiting post-doctoral research associates ...

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  48. April 5, 2009 UCHV 2007-08 Graduate Prize Fellow Named Carnegie Scholar

    Rabb selected as one of 21 recipients for 2009 Intisar Raab, a graduate student in Princeton's Department of Near Eastern Studies, has been selected as ...

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  49. March 28, 2009 "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer Available Now

    Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, is author of The Life You Can Save. For ...

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  50. March 10, 2009 Anthony Appiah to deliver the 2008 - 2009 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Lectures in Philosophy on March 24-26

      Prof. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, will deliver the  2008 - 2009 Romanell-Phi ...

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  51. October 27, 2008 Kwame Anthony Appiah has been awarded the first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize

    Kwame Anthony Appiah has been awarded Brandeis University's first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. The $25,000 prize, the legacy of Professor Joseph B. ...

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