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…
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2011.
The University Center for Human Values is now accepting applications for graduate prize fellowships beginning in September 2011. The Graduate Prize Fellowship…
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. The publication praised Appiah for his ability to “make philosophy relevant again” in his book “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, ” released…
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. This work is a product of the scholars…
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. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; and Jeffrey Tulis, associate…
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. The application process was competitive, revealing widespread enthusiasm across the campus for the opportunity…
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s much-anticipated book on honor and moral change was recently published by W.W. Norton. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen is a study of how unethical practices only truly cease when they conflict with honor, not in response to appeals to reason, morality, and religion. The book concentrates…
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. Applications must be completed and submitted online at https://uchv.princeton.edu/VPLApp/vpl_app.php by Thursday, September…
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.
Her papers include "Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion" (Philosophy and Public Affairs), "The…
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."
The Leo Strauss Prize is awarded annually by the American Political Science…
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.
Chosen from a group of 3,000 candidates for his project "A Civic Republican Theory of Democracy," Pettit is…
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.
Aryeh Amihay is a fifth-year graduate student in the…
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. This prestigious award was established in 1975 by a gift from the late Howard Behrman, a physician…
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. The lecture, entitled "Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges," addressed the need for more…
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.
Dr. Amy Gutmann's upcoming James A. Moffett Lecture in Ethics is featured in the Princeton University Bulletin. To read more, visit:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/12/62M54/index.xml?section=announcements
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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."
She will receive the award at…
Professor Melissa Lane joined the Politics Department in August 2009, as well as the Center’s Executive Committee. Her main works include Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman, Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and…
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.
Professor Beitz…
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 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.
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…
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, is author of The Life You Can Save.
For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a…
Prof. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, will deliver the
2008 - 2009 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Lectures in Philosophy.
…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. or international scholar for outstanding and lasting contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations…