University Center for Human Values

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Eisgruber and von Blumenthal to speak at Academic Freedom event

September 27, 2023

UCHV’s Academic Freedom Initiative will have its first event this coming Monday, October 2. The gathering will pursue two tasks: scholars will revisit the normative and…
UCHV launches Future Values Initiative

September 25, 2023

Advances in science and technology have outpaced careful inquiry into their ethical implications. New tools like CRISPR and large language models may hold tremendous…
UCHV launches Academic Freedom Initiative

September 11, 2023

Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world – including in at least parts of the United States. Against this background, UCHV is launching an…
Jan-Werner Müller appointed to German Education Ministry’s advisory council on freedom

September 5, 2023

The German Ministry for Education and Research is inaugurating a special academic year dedicated to the topic of freedom.
Acceptance speech by Peter Singer for the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities

June 26, 2023

Peter Singer's acceptance speech at the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Bilbao, Spain on June 20.

News

"Poland after PiS" Jan-Werner Mueller book review published in the London Review of Books

Nov. 16, 2023

Alan Patten and Shuk Ying Chan publish article in the American Political Science Review

Nov. 16, 2023

Philip Pettit elected to an honorary fellowship at Cambridge University's Trinity Hall

Nov. 9, 2023

Jan-Werner Mueller pens articles in Foreign Policy and Project Syndicate

Oct. 30, 2023

Peter Singer discusses the line between life and death in the Washington Post

Oct. 18, 2023

Jan-Werner Mueller reviews the book "Against the World" in Foreign Policy

Oct. 6, 2023

Eisgruber and von Blumenthal to speak at Academic Freedom event

Sept. 27, 2023

Events

Nina Valiquette Moreau (University of Chicago): "Plato on the Spirit of the Law"

Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Location

Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)

UCHV Conferences, Workshops & Special Events

Book talk with Melissa Lane and Benjamin Morison at Labyrinth Books: “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political”

Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Location

Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ

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Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse: "Respect and the Challenge of Equality"

Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Location

Robertson Hall, Bowl 001

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A Colloquium on Immanuel Kant's On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy (1791)

Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 8:30 am – Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 5:45 pm

Location

Nassau Inn, Senior Room (Friday); Laura Wooten Hall, Room 201 (Saturday)

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Book talk with Peter Singer & Robert Wright on "The Buddhist and the Ethicist"

Tue, Dec 5, 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Location

Labyrinth Books

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"Is it morally wrong for a man to claim to be a woman?" Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne)

Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Location

Lewis Library, Room 120

Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars

Science and Social Justice Salon: Sex and Gender Complexity

Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Location

Robertson Hall, 056 Bernstein Gallery

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