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 >

Professor Cécile Laborde delivers the James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics.

Laborde Moffett Lecture: A Summary

Cécile Laborde, the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy, delivered the spring 2019 James A. Moffett '29 Lecture in Ethics. Laborde spoke on “Who Needs Secularism? India, Liberalism, and Comparative Secularism.”
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.
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."