The University Center for Human Values sponsors a limited number of seminars and workshops throughout the academic year which seek to incite thought and discussion about ethical issues in both private and public life.
Upcoming Events
Peter Singer: “The Possibility & Necessity of Altruism”
Elizabeth Harman: “When to Be a Hero”
Chair: Jacob Nebel
- Department of Philosophy
- University Center for Human Values
“Constitutionalism Under Stress”,
a Joint Project of Princeton University and Humboldt University
zu Berlin presents: “The Case Against Constitutionalism”
This lecture will reprise claims made Martin Loughlin's book: Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press,…
- The Bouton Law Lectures Fund, Department of Politics
- University Center for Human Values, Program in Law and Normative Thinking
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a huge impact on our lives and will continue to do so in the future. While most discussions of AI’s impact are about impacts on humans, this conference aims at investigating and evaluating AI’s impacts on two classes of nonhuman beings, nonhuman animals and potentially sentient or conscious AI. The…
Most discussions of AI’s impact, and of the ethical questions raised, are about impacts on humans. This discussion will investigate and evaluate AI’s impacts on two classes of nonhuman beings: potentially sentient or conscious AI, and nonhuman animals. Drawing on existing impacts on animals, the event will seek to broaden AI ethics beyond…
Are you a STEM graduate student, post-doc, or faculty member interested in thinking more concretely about the social, political and ethical dimensions of your research? Maybe the climate crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic have left you wishing for new ways of thinking about how values and politics impact science? Perhaps you’ve wondered about how…
ABSTRACT: From abortion to affirmative action, gun control to greenhouse gas emissions, and redistricting to religious liberty, the Supreme Court has come to play a central role in virtually every major contemporary public policy debate. And in the last six years, in particular, the…
- Law@Princeton
- University Center for Human Values
- Department of Politics
The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Two eminent writers and thinkers -- one a philosopher, one a journalist -- consider these questions and their answers.
…- Labyrinth Books
- Princeton University Humanities Council
- University Center for Human Values
Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In her new study, which she will present and discuss with her colleague in Classics, Melissa Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled.
Lane reveals how political office and…
Audience: Faculty, fellows, and graduate students only
- AffiliationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- AffiliationUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
- University Center for Human Values (UCHV)
- Department of Philosophy
- University Center for Human Values