Read Professor Mueller's latest opinion piece on populism in Project Syndicate here .
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Thursday, Jun 15, 2017
Monday, Jun 12, 2017
Professor Philip Pettit has been made a Companion to the Order of Australia for eminent service to philosophy through contributions to moral and political theory, as a distinguished academic, and as a leader of public debate on social, economic, and environmental issues.
Friday, Jun 9, 2017
In his Project Syndicate Opinion piece titled "Theresa May's Other Citizens of Nowhere," Mueller explores British Prime Minister Theresa May's actions in "stripping British citizens" of political and economic ri
Monday, Jun 5, 2017
Peter Singer, the Ira W.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
In "Constitutional Fantasy" Jan-Werner Mueller reviews "Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union" by Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister and one-time candidate for president of the European Commission.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Professor of Politics, Jan-Werner Mueller discusses the implications to liberal democracy resulting from the new law that has the potential to close the Central European University (CEU), founded and endowed by George Soros in the article: "Hungary: The War on Education."
Friday, May 12, 2017
"Private Government" is published by the Princeton University Press and based on the 2015 Tanner Lectures on Human Values held at Princeton.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
John Dilulio, Gabrielle Girgis, and David Zuluaga Martinez were among the five winners of the Kateb Preceptor Award. The other two winners were Sharan Grewal and Asya Magazinnik.
Monday, May 1, 2017
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the Laurance S. Rockefeller 2017-18 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Thursday, Apr 27, 2017
Comparative Literature Graduate Students Matthew Spellberg and Elise Wang celebrated for innovation and excellence in teaching CHV 375: "Clues, Evidence, Detection: Law Stories" led by Professor Peter Brooks, Comparative Literature and UCHV
Thursday, Apr 27, 2017
Last November, UCHV held a book talk on What is Populism, Professor Jan-Werner Müller's timely book released in September 2016.
Princeton recently announced that President Eisgruber selected it for the Class of 2021 pre-read.
Thursday, Apr 27, 2017
Shaikh senior thesis was advised by UCHV Director and Class of 1943 Professor of Politics Melissa Lane.
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2017
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans announced the class of 2017 recipients , with two members of the first and third VPL class respectively, Shivani Radhakrishnan and Mariana Olaizola, among them.
Tuesday, Apr 18, 2017
Former Italian prime minister Mario Monti and Jan-Werner Mueller will debate populism on Friday, April 21 at the Milan Book fair.
Tuesday, Apr 11, 2017
There is more speculation than ever about a possible “end of the EU”. It might come with a bang — think of the sudden implosion that many feared at the height of the crisis in the eurozone — or with a whimper, as countries follow Britain in leaving voluntarily. But the EU could also be hollowed out from within.
Friday, Apr 7, 2017
Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan comment on the case of Anna Stubblefield, a former Rutgers ethics professor, convicted of aggravated sexual assault for relations with a cognitively impaired man with cerebral palsy.
Thursday, Apr 6, 2017
The University Center for Human Values is excited to announce our Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching and Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year.
Monday, Apr 3, 2017
In March 30th editorial, Nicholas Kristof discusses the importance of the humanities, in light of the President's plan to eliminate all funding for the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Monday, Mar 27, 2017
Philip Pettit proposes a "shared-space" model to address the problem of Brexit on both sides of the Irish border in this opinion piece.
Monday, Mar 27, 2017
With a politics degree and Values and Public Life (VPL) certificate in hand, Eleanor Roberts graduated from Princeton in 2015 and headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts to develop a local branch of the Petey Greene Progr
Monday, Mar 20, 2017
On Tuesday, March 28, UCHV hosted a panel conversation with W. Rochelle Calhoun, David Rabban, and Fred Schauer on "Free Speech In and Out of the Classroom" as part of its Free Speech Now! series.
Monday, Mar 20, 2017
Adam Lerner, a philosophy graduate student and former Graduate Prize Fellow (2015-16), is one of four recipients of the Jacobus Fellowship, which is Princeton University's top honor for graduate students.
Friday, Mar 17, 2017
Lane on "Why bureaucrats matter in the fight to preserve the rule of law" in Aeon, "a unique digital magazine, publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web."
Thursday, Mar 16, 2017
UCHV Film Forum Founding Director Erika A. Kiss and UCHV History of Political Thought Project Founding Director and Professor of Politics Jan-Werner Mueller will speak at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, one of the world's biggest documentary film festivals.
Monday, Mar 13, 2017
Lane and Preston discuss the challenges to strategic communications following Brexit; the conversation can be found here.
Thursday, Mar 9, 2017
The University Center for Human Values co-sponsored an event as part of a Campus Wide “Day of Action” – organized by the Princeton Advocates For Justice and Princeton Citizen Scientists – which brought together hundreds of members of the Princeton University campus community to discuss and reaffirm the responsibilities of a community devoted to
Monday, Feb 27, 2017
Up close with the Center's sixth Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics on her interests, her Values and Public Life seminar, and a public event addressing the moral responsibility of psychopaths.
Monday, Feb 20, 2017
Stephen Wertheim's published article invokes research done while at UCHV as a postdoctoral research associate in 2015-2016; some of his research during his time at the Center traced the origins of the concepts of "Internationalism" and "isolationism" in American political discourse.
Monday, Feb 20, 2017
A 4:30 p.m. talk on Tuesday, February 28th by Professor Martin Gilens, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Thursday, Feb 16, 2017
"If you can contribute to showing people how it's possible to have reasoned discussion of ethical issues, I think it's a valuable thing to do. A lot of people think ethics is all just subjective, a matter of taste. They think you can't really say anything, therefore you might as well just abuse your opponents. I think there are other possibilities."
Friday, Feb 10, 2017
Are you interested in Ethics? Equality?
Would you like to incorporate a critical perspective into your studies?
Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017
Nabil Shaikh ('17), John 'Newby' Parton ('18), and Sarah Sakha ('18) have been selected for the 2017 Cohort of the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017
Interested in film? Consider submitting a digital video by February 24 for the Center's Short Movie Prize. Each year, the Center accepts videos that bear on a specific theme, which this year is "Fanatacism."
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017
UCHV reaffirms its strong commitment to cherished values of fairness, humanitarianism, and non-discrimination, and rejects the view that security can be gained by undermining the very ideals on which our democracy is built.
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2017
In case you missed it, the recording of the event and a story in "The Daily Princetonian" is now available.
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017
Mueller's opinion piece in The Guardian warns of Trump's use of the term 'the people' and compares his political language to authoritarian leaders Chávez, Edroğan, and Orbán.
Monday, Jan 23, 2017
Mueller contributed to a panel on "Strengthening Democracy."
Thursday, Jan 19, 2017
Cherniss is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and one of UCHV's Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows for the 2016-17 academic year.
Thursday, Jan 19, 2017
In the first week of the Trump presidency, scientists from the US Department of Agriculture were briefly forbidden from speaking to the public, although the ban was reversed a few days later.
Monday, Jan 9, 2017
Stephen Wertheim is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and a Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge.
Friday, Jan 6, 2017
Melissa Lane contributed the first essay in the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity's (CUSP) new essay series on the Ethics of Sustainable Prosperity.
Tuesday, Jan 3, 2017
Derek's old friends, colleagues, and students came together in Marx Hall with brief talks on his philosophical works and informal remembrances of him.
Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer's most recent book, 'Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter,' profiled in The New York Times Books of the Times.
Monday, Dec 12, 2016
Pettit's TEDxNewYork talk is about the cultural and legal requirements for a truly free society.
Wednesday, Dec 7, 2016
Wong is one of six Princeton seniors who received the Schwarzman Scholarship for study in Beijing.
Friday, Nov 18, 2016
Doctoral candidate Jason Iuliano and politics undergraduate Ya Sheng Lin publish article on "Supreme Court Repeaters."
Friday, Nov 18, 2016
The Tanner Lectures will be live-streamed on both November 30 and December 1, 4:30 - 6:15 p.m. at Media Central, Live Events: http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016
"Beating Hearts," a panel conversation held at Princeton University in November is available for viewing online.
Friday, Nov 11, 2016
The Center's Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics was interviewed by "Quartz" on the ethical argument for working for the Trump administration.
Thursday, Nov 10, 2016
"In characterizing the problem of intolerance within a republic, Rousseau wrote, 'It is impossible to live in peace with people one believes to be damned.'
Wednesday, Nov 9, 2016
UCHV's Victoria McGeer's "Philosophical Explorations" article "Mind-Making Practices: The Social Infrastructure of Self-Knowing, Agency and Responsibility" was chosen for the Philosopher's Annual 2015 top ten list.
Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values aim to support highly promising scholars trained in moral and political philosophy, political theory, normative economics and related areas to develop a research agenda in the ethical dimensions of public policy.
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016
On Friday, November 11, the University Center for Human Values will kick off a weekend symposium on the effective altruism movement in regards to animal welfare with the public lecture: "Effective Altruism & Animals."
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016
Author of What is Populism, Professor Jan-Werner Mueller is giving many talks on populism here and abroad.
Monday, Oct 31, 2016
Anyone who makes an outstanding contribution to promoting knowledge, reason or public debate about issues that matter can nominate someone for Philosophy Now's 'Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity' award.
Wednesday, Oct 26, 2016
On November 17th, Jan-Werner Mueller will discuss his book, What is Populism?, at a lunch time talk in Aaron Burr 219. UCHV Director and Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Melissa Lane, will chair the discussion.
Friday, Oct 21, 2016
The International Panel on Social Progress (ISPS) is a panel comprised of social scientists who have released a report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians and decision-makers, in order to provide them with the best expertise on questions that bear on social change.
Friday, Oct 21, 2016
Most contemporary discussions of the ethics of migration focus on the justice of restricting rights to migrate; is the state ever permitted to refuse entry to those who would seek to migrate, or does that refusal always constitute an injustice?
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016
Melissa Lane, Director, UCHV, and Claudio Lopez-Guerra, Associate Professor, CIDE, will moderate a virtual discussion among four scholars with research interests in the ethics of immigration.
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016
Linda C. McClain, 2016-17 Laurance S. Rockeller Visiting Fellow and professor of law and Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law, and affiliated faculty with the Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at BU, coauthored a column on the pervasive sexism of the 2016 presidential election.
Monday, Oct 3, 2016
On Thursday, October 13, Juliana Bidadanure of Stanford University presented the first Program in Ethics and Public Affairs (PEPA) seminar of this academic year.
Wednesday, Sep 28, 2016
The lecture "Is there a Populist Politics of Memory?” will be delivered at the Simon Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Please visit the website for more information.
Wednesday, Sep 28, 2016
The first - of what the University Center for Human Values and the Steering Committee on Civic Engagement hope to be a series of lectures addressing service and civic engagement across campus - was well attended and ignited many conversations during and following Reich's talk.
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016
Stephen Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy at University of Washington-Seattle to deliver DeCamp Seminar on Wednesday September 28, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sep 21, 2016
Will MacAskill, University of Oxford, will present this DeCamp lecture on Wednesday September 21, 4:30 p.m. in Friend Center Room 101.
Monday, Sep 12, 2016
Last month, the paper that certificate student Kevin Wong '17 wrote for his VPL seminar "Bioethics: Clinical and Population Level," with Professor J. Frick, received attention as a highly commended paper.
This paper was recently selected as a regional winner, from the US and Canada, in the categories of law and philosophy.
Friday, Sep 9, 2016
Please join Professor Müller for a book talk on November 17th from 12:00-1:20 pm in Aaron Burr Hall, hosted by the Center.
Read reviews of What is Populism? (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Wednesday, Sep 7, 2016
Johann Frick, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, received the prize for his article, "Contractualism and Social Risk."
A symposium will be held in his honor at the 2017 American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division meeting in Seattle, WA.
Friday, Sep 2, 2016
Jan-Werner Mueller, Professor of Politics, writes in The Guardian about Populists as different elites who try to grab power with the help of a collective fantasy of political purity.
Wednesday, Aug 24, 2016
The Spitz Prize is awarded to the scholar who wrote the best book in liberal or democratic theory. The prize Committee chose Melissa Schwartzberg for her book: Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule.
Please click here for more information.
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2016
Friday, Aug 5, 2016
How guns became an object of desire
Wednesday, Aug 3, 2016
Please visit the Center’s website for application instructions.
Thursday, Jul 28, 2016
This past June, six Ph.D.
Thursday, Jul 28, 2016
This past June, six Ph.D. students from Princeton took part in an intense three-day seminar on “The State of Exception: Normative, Legal, and Historical Perspectives” held in Berlin under the auspices of the Princeton-Humboldt University strategic partnership.
Tuesday, Jul 26, 2016
“Austria: The Lesson of the Far Right”
Monday, Jul 18, 2016
Tuesday, Jul 5, 2016
Read the full article here.
Tuesday, Jul 5, 2016
Read the full article here.
Friday, Jul 1, 2016
Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Thursday, Jun 30, 2016
Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, discusses the history of the idea of sovereignty, the authority of a state to govern itself and the relationship between the sovereign and the people on BBC Radio Program "In Our Time."
Monday, Jun 27, 2016
Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, provides insights to the question, "What can democracies do to guard against demagoguery?"
Monday, Jun 20, 2016
Following the success of the inaugural workshop in 2014, the second workshop took place at Princeton August 16-19. It brought together 12 faculty mentors and 35 graduate student women in philosophy, drawn from a range of schools, PhD program stages, and areas of interest.
Sunday, Jun 5, 2016
Los Angeles Times Op–Ed: “Harambe the gorilla dies‚ meat–eaters grieve”
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Read Professor Müller′s article here.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016
The May 13‚ 2016 conference is sponsored by the Goethe Institute and the Union des Tunisiens Indépendants pour la Liberté and aims to enhance the development of civil society and civic education in the region.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
When the Sorting Hat Does Not Sort: A Natural Experiment on Culture
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Research for Lechterman’s paper was partially funded by the Political Philosophy Research and Travel Grant.
Lechterman’s paper‚ “Donations and Democracy‚” was selected for the McWilliams Best Graduate Student Paper in Political Theory award.
Monday, May 2, 2016
The Superman Principle: Why America Chose Hegemony
Tuesday, Apr 26, 2016
“Capitalism, Utopia‚ and Social Justice‚” taught by Marc Fleurbaey – jointly appointed with UCHV and WWS – introduces students to a variety of readings, mainly in philosophy and economics, to develop opinions and questions about the basic structure
Monday, Apr 25, 2016
Ben Goodman and Simon Gulergun's Untitled received Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to all of the winners! For more information about the Short Movie Prize and the list of previous winners click here.
Thursday, Apr 14, 2016
Read article here.
Friday, Mar 25, 2016
Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full–time postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. For more information, click here.
Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016
Read Professor Müller's argument here.
Thursday, Mar 17, 2016
The Program in Ethics and Public Affairs welcomed Professor Tommie Shelby (Harvard) to discuss a chapter from his forthcoming book, .
By Amy Hondo, Ph.D. candidate
Program in Political Philosophy
Thursday, Feb 25, 2016
Politics graduate student Benjamin Hofmann recounts this and other questions NYU Professor Samuel Scheffler addressed in the James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics.
Thursday, Feb 11, 2016
Klēsis’ special issue on Peter Singer has contributions from individuals such as Charles Camosy and Lori Gruen to Peter Singer himself.
Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016
Full story here.
Friday, Feb 5, 2016
The lecture titled‚“No Slippery Slopes: Same–Sex Couples‚ Monogamy‚ and the Future of Marriage” was held on February 11.
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2016
Susan Brison, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values and Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College will teach CHV 411/PHI 411, Free Speech in the Age of the Internet, in the spring 2017 at Princeton.
Monday, Jan 11, 2016
Cheng will pursue a one–year Master’s program in Tsinghua University in Beijing next year.
Full story here.
Friday, Dec 18, 2015
UCHV Graduate Prize Fellow‚ Madison Kilbride‚ recounts the event.
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015
Thursday, Dec 3, 2015
For undergraduates ‘on the fence’ about law school‚ VPL student‚ Ya Sheng Lin ′17‚ says learning from those who’ve followed that course‚ is helpful.
Reflections on VPL Law School Panel
By Ya Sheng Lin‚ Class of 2017‚ Values and Public Life and Italian Language and Culture
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2015
View talk here.
Monday, Nov 23, 2015
The post specifically discusses Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?‚ which played at the Princeton Garden and was accompanied by live music.
Monday, Nov 23, 2015
Read full story here.
Thursday, Nov 19, 2015
" 'Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People’: A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics' ” (November 2014) earned him the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize which recognizes a dissertation on a subject in social, political, or
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015
Thursday, Nov 12, 2015
Orbán’s Rhetoric: An Exchange
Monday, Oct 26, 2015
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Friday, Oct 23, 2015
Friday, Oct 23, 2015
“Straight talk from UPenn’s president on education, democracy, next year’s election—and yes, where to find the best ice-cream in Philadelphia”
Monday, Oct 19, 2015
Complete application information here.
Monday, Oct 19, 2015
In memory of Jos de Beus, a passionate public debater and a beloved professor of Political Theory at the Unviersity of Amsterdam, the Amserdam Centre established the annual Jos de Beus Lecture Series.
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015
Full story here: “Hungary: ‘Sorry About Our Prime Minister’”
Monday, Oct 12, 2015
Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, and UCHV Faculty Associate awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2015
The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015
UCHV 25th Anniversary Edition Annual Review.
Monday, Sep 28, 2015
Meet the Center’s visitors.
Monday, Sep 21, 2015
The grants are supported by the Program in Political Philosophy and can be accessed in SAFE.
Friday, Sep 18, 2015
In “Orbán′s police state‚” Scheppele discusses the possibility of the Hungarian government to declare a “state of migration emergency” and the scary implications this would have on both migrants and Hungarian citizens.
Monday, Aug 24, 2015
Having graduated this past May, Taub’s thesis project from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism served as the basis for the article, which he helped fund using money he earned from being a contestant on ‘
Monday, Aug 17, 2015
Full story here.
Tuesday, Jul 7, 2015
Peter Singer discusses the logic of "Effective Altruism" on a Boston Review Forum.
Wednesday, Jun 24, 2015
Full story here.
Wednesday, Jun 24, 2015
Philip Pettit’s April Tanner Lectures: “The Birth of Ethics.”
Tuesday, Jun 2, 2015
Full story here.
Monday, Jun 1, 2015
Philosophy’s Elena Di Rosa, Politics’ Cameron Langford and Anthropology’s Annaliese Ionson won this year’s award. DiRosa and Langford were members of UCHV’s Program in Values and Public Life (VPL).
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
He spoke on a panel entitled, "Democratic Deliberation in Bioethics," where he discussed how prior U.S. national bioethics commissions have engaged in deliberative methods as part of their work and the influence of those methods on their findings and recommendations.
Tuesday, Apr 28, 2015
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching
Thursday, Apr 9, 2015
This book originated from the 2012 Tanner Lectures on Human Values hosted by UCHV.
Thursday, Mar 19, 2015
″An Ancient Civics Lesson‚″ by Melissa Lane.
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2015
Mueller has for a number of years proposed a new institution somewhat analogous to the Council of Europe′s Venice Commission, to monitor and protect democracy and the rule of law in the EU.
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015
The Forgotten Emancipation
Monday, Feb 16, 2015
Friday, Feb 13, 2015
Forty students nationally were awarded the Gates Scholarship‚ which allows students to pursue postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.
Thursday, Feb 5, 2015
Professor Müller, comments in Time′s online article on the similarities of Greece to Hungary in regards to balancing the need for EU bailout versus its lack of support for strict Russian sanctions.
Monday, Nov 24, 2014
Read A Half-Century of Prevention - The Advisory Committee on Immunication Practices here.
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014
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Thursday, Oct 23, 2014
Article in Huffington Post
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014
Q&A: How to tackle Ebola's tough ethical questions
Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014
Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014
Professor Pettit's, 'On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy,' CUP 2012, was acknowledged as the best book in liberal
Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014
Philip Pettit's new book, On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy, has been published by Cambridge University Press. Based on his 2010 Seeley Lectures at the University of Cambridge, the book presents a normative theory of democracy in which basic liberties are protected.
Friday, Aug 1, 2014
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Thursday, Jun 19, 2014
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Tuesday, Jun 17, 2014
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Friday, Jun 13, 2014
The featured story acknowledges Lane as an internationally recognized scholar of ancient political theory, who brings both diverse interests and energy to Princeton and beyond.
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Thursday, Jun 12, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
UCHV 2014-15 Graduate Prize Fellow, Friederike Funk, UCHV research scholar, Victoria McGeer, and Mario Gollwitzer, professor at Philipps-University Margurg, published an article on punishment that may hold implications for legal pol
Thursday, May 1, 2014
The lecture is presented by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and cosponsored by the European Union Program; the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and the University Center for Human Values.
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the Laurance S. Rockefeller 2014-15 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2014
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Intl. Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and UCHV, as well as the Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
Monday, Apr 7, 2014
Published by the Princeton University Press, "Meaning in Life and Why It Matters" is the culmination of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values delivered by Susan Wolf in 2007.
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2014
Mark Ho, '11, is a graduate student in Brown University's cognitive, linguistic & psychological sciences department.
Friday, Mar 7, 2014
The “Architecture, Urban Space, and Democracy,” colloquium was held under the auspices of the Project in the History of Political Thought. The piece, available here, praised the interdisciplinary nature of the gathering, with manifold conversations among arc
Friday, Feb 28, 2014
In Just Freedom, Pettit proposes the "republican" ideal of freedom, which ensures the individual rights of citizens.
Thursday, Feb 20, 2014
There will be an informational meeting on Thursday, March 6, 2014 in 301 Marx Hall, from 12:15-12:45 pm.
Online Applications are due Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
Monday, Feb 17, 2014
Monday, Feb 17, 2014
Between April and August of last year, Ben chronicled civilians and circumstances on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border through his lens. His photos are featured at the Campus Club through February 28.
Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014
http://www.gdi.ch/de/Think-Tank/Trend-News/Detail-Page/Global-Thought-Leaders-2013
Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014
http://www.gdi.ch/de/Think-Tank/Trend-News/Detail-Page/Global-Thought-Leaders-2013
Tuesday, Feb 4, 2014
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S39/04/10S17/
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
Female PhD and DPhil students and prospective students in philosophy are invited to submit papers (on any topic in philosophy) to participate in a workshop at Princeton University, August 21-24, 2014. The submission deadline is March 1, 2014.
Thursday, Jan 16, 2014
The American Philosophical Association named Dr. Cheshire Calhoun the association's next board chair. Calhoun is a UCHV visiting research scholar and visiting professor in the department of philosophy in spring 2014.
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2013
Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics, Jason Schwartz, and Lecturer in 'Ethics and Public Health,' comments on meningitis and Princeton's vaccination program in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Monday, Dec 2, 2013
Peter Singer, the Ira W.
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013
Jan-Werner Mueller will give the IWM Lectures in Human Sciences at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna. The IWM launched this series of public lectures in 2000 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Hans Georg Gadamer, supporter of the Institute si
Monday, Oct 28, 2013
Jan-Werner Mueller is to deliver the first Eugen Kogon lecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt on October 28th. Kogon was part of the resistance in Nazi Germany and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp for six years. After the war, he became one of the intellectual fathers of the F
Monday, Jul 22, 2013
Philip Pettit has been elected to the British Academy as a Corresponding Fellow, their highest honor conferred “in recognition of scholarly distinction.” Pettit is the Laurance S.
Monday, Jul 1, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships for the academic year 2014-15. Fellows devote an academic year in residence at Princeton to do research and writing about topics involving human values in public and private life.
Monday, Jul 1, 2013
The University Center for Human Values and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs invite applications for postdoctoral positions in Values and Public Policy.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce that the winners of the UCHV Short Movie Prize for 2013 are Michael Glassman '15 and Tom Markham '15. Their film, "Justice," was selected by a panel of judges from a competitive pool of submissions on that theme.
Monday, Apr 29, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center’s 2011-12 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Monday, Apr 29, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2013-14. Our visiting colleagues will devote a year’s residence in Princeton to research, writing, and teaching about ethics and human values.
Sunday, Apr 21, 2013
Christopher Eisgruber '83, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, was elected...
Friday, Apr 19, 2013
Marc Fleurbaey, the Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, has just published "Beyond GDP: Measuring Welfare and Sustainability," co-authored with Didier Blanchet.
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013
The Princeton University Office of Communications has just published a featured story profiling Jason Schwartz's undergraduate seminar on Ethics and Public Health. Schwartz, a graduate of Princeton's Class of 2003, is currently the Harold T.
Monday, Mar 4, 2013
Mark Alfano, a Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Human Values, along with co-PIs Daniel Lapsley and Paul Stey (Notre Dame) and collaborators Brian Robinson (Grand Valley State University) and Markus Christen (Zurich), has just been awarded a grant of $251,745 to conduct a two-year empir
Monday, Feb 25, 2013
Jan-Werner Mueller, a professor in the Politics Department and Center for Human Values, has just published a short book on the controversial question of whether the European Union is legitimated to intervene in its own member states to protect liberal democracy. Mueller's volume offers a case study of Hungary, where a right-wing populist govern
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013
Jake Nebel, a senior philosophy major and participant in the program in Values in Public Life, has been named co-winner of Princeton's 2012 Moses Taylor Hyne Prize, the highest general distinction conferred by the University on an undergraduate. Nebel has also been named a 2013 Marshall Scholar and will pursue a master's degree in philosophy at
Monday, Feb 18, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for the undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life from sophomores in all disciplines.
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013
Mark Alfano, a Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Human Values, has just published his book Character as Moral Fiction with Cambridge University Press. Although recent psychological investigations have suggested that most people do not have robust character trains such as courage, honesty, and op
Thursday, Feb 7, 2013
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2013. The Graduate Prize Fellowship program is intended for post-generals Princeton graduate students with distinguished academic records who are working on dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013
The University Center for Human Values invites nominations and applications for the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professorship of Distinguished Teaching.
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Jake Nebel, a senior in the Values and Public Life program, is among the 34 American college students who have been named 2013 Marshall Scholars. The Marshall Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living at a British university for two to three years.
Monday, Nov 12, 2012
Kimberly Ferzan, a Laurance S.
Sunday, Nov 11, 2012
Adam Kirsch reviewed Professor Alan Ryan's newest book, On Politics, in the October 29th issue of The New Yorker. Kirsch described the two-volume history of political philosophy as "magisterial" and "a powerful brief against the unexamined life." On Politics is being published by Penguin Books in December, 2012.
Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012
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Monday, Oct 29, 2012
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Monday, Oct 29, 2012
On October 29, Professor Philip Pettit will deliver the Muenster Lectures in Philosophy at the University of Muenster. The title of Pettit's lecture will be "Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods." The Muenster Lectures in Philosophy were started in 1997 and take place annually. Past Muenster lecturers include Richard Rorty, Robert Brand
Thursday, Oct 11, 2012
On October 11 Melissa Lane will deliver the Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture in Social Studies at Harvard University. Lane's lecture is entitled "Eco-Republic: Plato and Sustainable Citizenship."
Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012
Alan Patten, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will serve as director of the University Center for Human Values during the 2012-2013 academic year. Professor Patten’s research and teaching interests include the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.
Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012
Professor Alan Ryan has been appointed acting director of the Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program at the University Center for Human Values for the 2012-2013 academic year. Professor Ryan is lecturer with the rank of professor in politics and will be directing the undergraduate certificate program during Meliss
Sunday, Jul 15, 2012
Erin Graham recently joined the Center staff as program coordinator.
Saturday, Jul 14, 2012
On October 22nd Jan-Werner Mueller will deliver the second lecture in a special series on the topic of Freedom organized by the Norwegian Research Council in the run-up to the bicentennial of the Norwegian constitution in 2014. The Norwegian constitution is the oldest single-document national constitution in Europe and the second old
Friday, May 18, 2012
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center’s 2012-13 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Thursday, Apr 12, 2012
Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2012-13. Our visiting colleagues will devote a year’s residence in Princeton to research, writing, and teaching about ethics and human values.
Thursday, Dec 8, 2011
Oxford University Press recently announced the publication of Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, written by Christian List and Philip Pettit.
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011
Princeton University Press recently published Peter Brooks' book Enigmas of Identity, which addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of...
Thursday, Nov 3, 2011
Monday, Oct 10, 2011
Wednesday, Sep 21, 2011
Peter Singer's Animal Liberation (1975) has been included in TIME Magazine's recent list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.
Thursday, Aug 4, 2011
Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011
Kim Lane Scheppele is one of five Americans recently elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a group of...
Friday, Jul 1, 2011
Sarah McGrath, assistant professor of philosophy, has been named Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor for the three-year period beginning in July 2011. The appointment...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
UCHV’s Social Issue Filmmaking class is currently the feature story on the Princeton University homepage.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Jan-Werner Mueller, a member of the UCHV executive committee, will debate the concept of constitutional patriotism with the president of the German parliament in Berlin on July 4, 2011. Mueller is the author of a book on constitutional patriotism, a term which denotes the attachment of citizens to political v
Monday, Apr 25, 2011
Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center's 2011-12 Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Friday, Mar 25, 2011
The UCHV has been awarded a grant from the University's 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education to support development of the Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program.
Thursday, Mar 3, 2011
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2011-12. Our visiting colleagues will devote a year’s residence in Princeton to research, writing, and teaching about ethics and human values.
Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for the undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life from sophomores in all disciplines.
Monday, Feb 28, 2011
Nan Keohane’s book Thinking about Leadership was published in December by Princeton University Press. The book brings together Keohane’s training and professional vocation as a political theorist with insights from her experience as a college and university president from 1981-2004. The book is designed to be a work of theoretic
Monday, Feb 28, 2011
Jonathan Quong, currently an LSR Visiting Fellow at UCHV, recently published his first book, Liberalism without Perfection, with Oxford University Press. The book provides a sustained critique of liberal perfectionism, and offers a new account and defense of political liberalism.
Monday, Feb 28, 2011
The University Press of Kentucky recently published A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by John Seery, UCHV’s LSR Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.
Monday, Feb 28, 2011
Friday, Feb 4, 2011
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2011.
Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011
Philip Pettit and José Luis Martí's book Republicanism was the subject of a recent article in Times Higher Education.
Philip Pettit and José Luis Martí's book Republicanism was the subject of a recent article in Times Higher Education. To read the entire article, visit:
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010
Kwame Anthony Appiah was recently named in Foreign Policy magazine’s list of top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010 for framing an ethics code relevant to today’s globalized world.
Friday, Dec 3, 2010
José Luis Martí and Philip Pettit's recent book “A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain” has been recognized as one of the five best economics and politics books of the year in the “New Statesman” November 29th edition.
Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010
The Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the release of The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, a volume of essays co-edited by Stephen Macedo, Laurance S.
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010
UCHV is pleased to announce the students of the inaugural Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program class in 2010-11. Selected from a pool of 30 applicants, 15 juniors and 9 seniors were chosen for the program this year.
Monday, Sep 13, 2010
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for the undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life from rising juniors and seniors in all disciplines.
Thursday, Jul 1, 2010
Elizabeth Harman has been appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values. A Princeton faculty member since 2006, Harman focuses her work on ethics.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Joseph Mazor, a 2009-2010 UCHV Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values, was named the winner of the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Prize for his dissertation, "A Liberal Theory of Natural Resource Property Rights."
Monday, May 17, 2010
Philip Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in Political Philosophy, was awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships this spring.
Monday, May 3, 2010
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the award of the University Center’s Graduate Prize Fellowships to ten advanced graduate students who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, recently received Princeton's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
Friday, Apr 30, 2010
In celebration of the University Center for Human Values' 20th Anniversary, Center founder and UPenn President Dr. Amy Gutmann delivered a James A. Moffett Lecture in Ethics at Princeton University on Thursday, April 29th.
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Faculty and Fellows for 2010-11. Our visiting colleagues will devote a year’s residence in Princeton to research, writing, and teaching about ethics and human values.
Monday, Apr 19, 2010
Dr. Amy Gutmann's upcoming James A. Moffett Lecture in Ethics is featured in the Princeton University Bulletin. To read more, visit:
Thursday, Mar 4, 2010
Laura Valentini, UCHV Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values, was recently awarded the UK Political Studies Association's Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Theory for her thesis, "Global Justice: Cosmopolitanism, Social Liberalism, and the Coercion View."
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2009
Professor Melissa Lane joined the Politics Department in August 2009, as well as the Center’s Executive Committee.
Wednesday, Jul 1, 2009
Professor Charles Beitz, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, has been named director of the University Center for Human Values, effective July 1, 2009.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Graduate Prize Fellowships, made possible by a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller '32, are awarded to excellent doctoral students at Princeton who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values.
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009
The University Center for Human Values at Princeton University is pleased to announce its visiting faculty, visiting faculty fellows, and visiting post-doctoral research associates for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Sunday, Apr 5, 2009
Rabb selected as one of 21 recipients for 2009
Intisar Raab, a graduate student in Princeton's Department of Near Eastern Studies, has been selected as one of 21 recipients of a 2009 Carnegie Scholarship.
Saturday, Mar 28, 2009
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, is author of The Life You Can Save.
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009
Prof. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, will deliver the
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008
Kwame Anthony Appiah has been awarded Brandeis University's first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. The $25,000 prize, the legacy of Professor Joseph B. Gittler, is the first and one of the largest academic prizes awarded to a U.S.
The University Center invites applications for Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships for the academic year 2017-18. The application deadline is Monday October 31, 2016, 11:59 p.m. EST.
