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 >

Kim Lane Scheppele discusses virtual teaching on University homepage

In this article, Professor Kim Lane Scheppele discusses her insights from last semester's pivot to virtual learning and how she continues to innovate in her “Classical Sociological Theory” graduate seminar this fall.
Andrew Chignell elected President of the North American Kant Society

Andrew Chignell, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values, has been elected as President of the North American Kant Society. He will serve for three years.
Elizabeth Harman answers pandemic ethics questions in Princeton Alumni Weekly

Elizabeth Harman answers Princeton Alumni Weekly readers' questions about pandemic ethics in "Tiger Ethics: How to Pick a Schooling Option This Fall."
Peter Singer discusses Effective Altruism movement in the Washington Post Magazine

Peter Singer discusses the thinking behind the Effective Altruism movement and its impact in the Washington Post Magazine article "The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders."
The Case for Human COVID-19 Challenge Trials

In this Project Syndicate article, Professor Peter Singer and Isaac Martinez argue that "Regulators should permit and begin to prepare for “human challenge” vaccine trials in order to end the COVID-19 p
LSR Fellow Ben Bramble publishes book on COVID-19 pandemic

2019-20 LSR Fellow Ben Bramble published "Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19". The book is open access, so it can be downloaded and read for free by all those who are interested in the following issues questions and issues:
Ethics Classes Change Behavior - Peter Singer & co-authors publish study

Professor Peter Singer published a co-authored study on "Do ethics classes influence student behavior? Case study: Teaching the ethics of eating meat" in Cognition, a leading international peer-reviewed journal.
Black Lives Matter: A message from Melissa Lane, Director of the University Center for Human Values

The University Center for Human Values affirms as a fundamental human value that Black Lives Matter. We call for justice for all those who have been the victims of police violence and of other forms of oppression and inequality which are unequally visited upon people of color, and for the systemic changes that are needed to prevent
Melissa Lane writes about teaching Plato in the pandemic

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and director of the University Center for Human Values, writes about teaching Plato in the pandemic. To read the article, click here.
Kim Lane Scheppele interview with Vital Interests on autocratic legalism

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele interviewed about tracing autocratic legal innovations and their spread around the world in "The Rise of Authoritarian Democracies