A Wall Street Journal article reported on a recent trend to teach basic financial life skills at some of the Ivy's in response to the rise in debt - including student loan debt - and out of concern for young people's economic future and growing...
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Friday, May 24, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
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.”
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019
Sally A. Nuamah, Assistant Professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, was named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Monday, Apr 22, 2019
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was an American politician, professor and diplomat with a career that spanned four decades. He served New York as a senator for nearly thirty years, advised four presidential administrations — two Democratic and two Republican — and worked at Harvard as a professor of sociology.
Friday, Apr 12, 2019
Two past Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows - Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania) and Henry S. Richardson (Georgetown University) - were among the 168 scholars, artists, and writers chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow, according to a press release from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Monday, Apr 8, 2019
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.
Monday, Apr 8, 2019
Fellows devote an academic year in residence at Princeton to research and write about topics involving human values in public and private life.
Tuesday, Mar 26, 2019
On Friday, April 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics will host a workshop on Professor Johann Frick's work on "Risk, Luck, and Future People." Commentators from MIT and Harvard will respond to five of Frick's papers on the topic.
Wednesday, Mar 13, 2019
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.
Monday, Mar 11, 2019
Professor of Political Theory and Nuffield Chair of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, Cécile Laborde, will deliver the James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics in Computer Science, Lecture Hall 104 at four-thirty in the afternoon.
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2019
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.
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2019
"...when did humans first start using ethical talk? and how did this arise? Philip Pettit has a story, a useful story he says, even if it is not true..."
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2019
There are personalists and there are populists. Brexit is a disaster for the former.
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019
Princeton classics graduate student interviews Melissa Lane.
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019
Nelson Tebbe, Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman write about a case that the Supreme Court will hear tomorrow regarding a 40-foot peace cross in Bladensburg, MD in "The Washington Post."
Friday, Feb 22, 2019
Last weekend, Values and Public Life students gathered for a group lunch at Cargot followed by a trip to McCarter Theatre to see “The Niceties...
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2019
Macedo will give the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP) Annual Lecture 2019 in Hong Kong.
Monday, Feb 11, 2019
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."
Monday, Feb 4, 2019
Jan-Werner Mueller has published an edited volume revisiting Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism (more info here: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811327926). Former LSR fellow Joshua Cherniss contributed a chapter comparing Berlin’s political thought with that of Reinhold Niebuhr. The...
Monday, Jan 28, 2019
The website "Five Books" consulted UCHV Director Melissa Lane, an expert on ancient Greek thought, on the best books on Plato. Read Professor Lane's choices and explanations here.
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019
A "semi-Brexit does not mean breaking up the UK," says Scheppele. "Rather the reverse: semi-Brexit may be the only way to hold the UK together." Scheppele proposes that Scotland and Northern Ireland remain in the EU, while permitting England and Wales to exit - and discusses how this would be possible.
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019
This academic year, the jury will consider digital videos that bear in any way on the theme of "Hope & Despair.
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019
In his recent op-ed, "Too Much Gratitude?", Peter Singer, comments on Michael Bloomberg's recent gift of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins, in gratitude for the opportunities his education (and scholarship) made possible.
Thursday, Jan 10, 2019
Highlights from the joint venture between UCHV and CITP.
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2019
"Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency to get his border wall - but will that work?"
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2019
Videos from the Nov. 28 & Nov. 29th, 2018 Tanner Lectures on Human Values now available.
Monday, Jan 7, 2019
In "Project Syndicate," Marc Fleurbaey and fellow International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) committee member, Helga Nowotny, write on the need to address climate change by also addressing social issues.
Thursday, Dec 20, 2018
Mintz-Woo's chapter is included in "Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options," an interdisciplinary survey of climate change loss and damage.
Friday, Dec 7, 2018
Coauthored with Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger, both of the University of Virginia Law School, Tebbe publishes The Costs of Conscience in the "106 Kentucky Law Journal 881 (2018)."
Read full article here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=...
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018
Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, was elected President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Friday, Sep 21, 2018
An article by Nelson Tebbe titled, "Reply: Conscience and Equality," was recently published in the Journal for Civil Rights and Economic Development. Tebbe is a professor of law at Cornell Law School and a LSR Visiting Faculty Fellow.
You can read the article here.
Friday, Sep 7, 2018
Nelson Tebbe, professor of law at Cornell Law School and one of our incoming LSR Visiting Faculty Fellows, discusses Judge Kavanaugh's stance on religious exemptions from general laws.
Read the Washington Post op-ed ...
Tuesday, Aug 21, 2018
The University Center for Human Values, the Department of Religion, and the Council of the Humanities are sponsoring a conference in honor of Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion, emeritus; and founding member of the UCHV's Executive Committee.
Friday, Aug 10, 2018
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) is an independent transnational and interdisciplinary network of experts in Sciences, Arts and Religions. EASA was founded in 1990 and currently has 31 Noble Prize winners as members.
Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018
Lectures will be held November 28 & 29, 2018
Friday, Jul 13, 2018
7th Berlin Kant Course
Andrew Chignell (Princeton)
Knowledge, Belief, Hope and Despair
Thursday, Jul 5, 2018
Building on her Carlyle Lectures this past spring, Melissa Lane and about 70 top UK civil servants will give a talk hosted by Princeton University and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
Monday, Jul 2, 2018
Professor Harman delivered her timely lecture as part of the "Ethics in the Public Sphere" distinguished lecture series at the University of California-San Diego on May 24, 2018.
Click here to read UC-San Deigo's story on the event.
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Monday, Jun 11, 2018
Joseph Chan, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at The University of Hong Kong, will be a Princeton Global Scholar in the spring semesters 2019-2021.
Monday, Jun 11, 2018
Melissa Lane delivered a series of lectures throughout Europe, including:
Wednesday, Jun 6, 2018
Through academic study, field study, and service learning, 20 participants explored various theories of what inequality is and why it matters.
Monday, May 21, 2018
The aim of the "Princeton Dialogues" is to develop a set of intellectual reasoning tools to guide practitioners and policy makers, both current and future, in developing the ethical frameworks that will ultimately underpin their technical and legislative decisions.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Princeton's University Center for Human Values (UCHV) and the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) release the first case studies of their joint research project: “The Princeton Dialogues on...
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Colleen Murphy, former Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law, Philosophy & Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, won the North American Society for Social Philosophy's award for the best book in social philosophy....
