University Center for Human Values

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 >

A Conversation with Maestro Dudamel and Fintan O'Toole

Director of the University Center for Human Values, Melissa Lane, will moderate a conversation between Princeton's Artist-in-Residence, Gustavo Dudamel, and one of Ireland's leading public intellectuals, Fintan O'Toole.
Announcing our Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows for 2019-20!

Fellows devote an academic year in residence at Princeton to research and write about topics involving human values in public and private life.
"The New Yorker" On the Origins of Peter Singer's Instagram Account

Peter Singer's student hoped to offer followers an insight into the ethicist's everyday life and to strengthen the [Effective Altruism] movement when launching the philosopher's Instagram account.
UCHV Postdoc Annette Zimmermann and Interdisciplinary Team of Colleagues Develop Innovative AI Ethics Course for Ph.D. students

The aim of the course is to make foundational concepts and theories in ethics and political philosophy accessible to students from a wide range of academic research backgrounds.
LSR Fellow Nelson Tebbe Summarizes Michael McConnell's (Stanford Law) Recent Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Professor McConnell, a former federal judge who now teaches at Stanford Law School, delivered his lectures on November 28 and 29, 2018, and he titled them "The President Who Would Not Be King."