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Gavin Sullivan part of a legal team that removed a Yemeni man from UN Security Council blacklist
March 10, 2022

Gavin Sullivan, Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, is part of an international legal team that successfully removed a Yemeni man from the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

Lara Buchak awarded inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize
March 10, 2022

On February 18, the American Philosophical Association (APA) announced Lara Buchak, Professor of Philosophy and UCHV Executive Committee member, as the inaugural recipient of the Alvin Plantinga Prize.

Kim Lane Scheppele discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine
March 2, 2022

Sharing valuable insight on the crisis unfolding in Ukraine, Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, and the University Center for Human Values, was one of four expert panelists convened to discuss Russia's attacks on Ukraine.

Amy Gutmann appointed as United States ambassador to Germany
Feb. 24, 2022

Founding director of UCHV, Amy Gutmann, becomes the first woman to serve as United States ambassador to Germany.

Kim Lane Scheppele on the rule of law in the European Union
Feb. 18, 2022

The World Justice Project interviewed Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, for the article, “European Union's Top Court Rules Against Hungary and Poland in…

Recap of the 2022 James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics delivered by Cordelia Fine
Feb. 17, 2022

"Fairly Criticized, or Politicized? Conflicts in the Neuroscience of Sex Differences in the Human Brain"

Ethan Kahn and Natalia Zorrilla selected to participate in the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative
Feb. 11, 2022

Values and Public Life certificate students, Ethan Kahn and Natalia Zorrilla have each received invitations to be part of the 2022 cohort of Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).

Luara Ferracioli offers insight on Australia tamping down Covid-19 restrictions
Feb. 2, 2022

Unpacking the moral duties that Australian citizens have towards vulnerable members of society, Luara Ferracioli, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, discusses the Australian situation now that most Australian states have moved towards minor restrictions. Dr. Ferracioli's opinion piece, "Now…

Recap of the 2021 Moffett Lecture "Democracy and the Problem of Political Loss"
Jan. 16, 2022

Professor Juliet Hooker delivers the November 2021 James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics,"Democracy and the Problem of Political Loss."

Ryan Darr enlightens on environmental ethics in the Washington Post
Jan. 10, 2022

Calling attention to the topic of environmental ethics, Ryan Darr, postdoctoral research associate in Philosophy and Religion in the Center for Human Values, wrote the January 9 Washington Post article, “’Red Wolves’ remains the best choice for the new name for the Washington Football Team.”

Jan-Werner Mueller on the virtues of democracy in The New York Times
Dec. 22, 2021

A guest essay written by Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, Jan-Werner Mueller, discusses Joe Biden’s Summit for…

Elizabeth Harman, Harvey Lederman and Errol Lord selected as Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellows
Dec. 15, 2021

Three faculty connected to UCHV have been named inaugural 2021-2022 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellows, part of the Foundation’s Philosophy in the Media Initiative. The faculty members include: Elizabeth Harman, Laurance S…

Elizabeth Harman on abortion in The New York Daily News
Dec. 9, 2021

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and Human Values Elizabeth Harman wrote the op-ed, “What Amy Coney Barrett doesn’t understand about abortion” published in the December 9 issue of The New York Daily News. Harman…

Jan-Werner Mueller discusses centrism in Project Syndicate
Dec. 3, 2021

A commentary written by Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, was published in the November 30 edition of Project Syndicate.  In the article, “Can the Center Hold Any Meaning?” Professor Mueller…

Peter Singer and the effect of ethics instruction on students’ moral choices
Nov. 22, 2021

Confirming that philosophical instruction can influence students’ real- world behavior was a recent conclusion in a study co-investigated by Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values. The…

Philip Pettit delivers Einstein Lectures
Nov. 4, 2021

The Einstein Lectures 2021 held at the University of Bern in October were given by Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values.“The Social Nature of Our Mental Life” was the theme…

Visiting Fellow Gavin Sullivan co-authors Just Security op-ed on Security Watchlisting
Nov. 2, 2021

Gavin Sullivan, visiting fellow at the University Center for Human Values, 2021-2022, and Reader in International Human Rights Law at Edinburgh Law School co-authored the op-ed, “Watchlisting the World: Digital Security Infrastructures, Informal Law, and the ‘Global War on Terror’” in

Melissa Lane and social contract theory on Future Hindsight podcast
Oct. 27, 2021

Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values is featured in the October 21 Future Hindsight podcast episode, “The Social Contract-History of a Big Idea: Melissa Lane.”

Philip Pettit delivers address on Republican Democracy
Oct. 27, 2021
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values delivered the Wilson H. Elkins Lecture at the University of Baltimore School of Law in early October.
Elizabeth Cohen published in the Washington Post
Oct. 14, 2021

The work of Elizabeth Cohen, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow (Spring 2022), and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, is featured in the September 30 edition of the Washington Post. Her article is…

The UCHV community mourns the loss of Albert Raboteau
Sept. 23, 2021

The University Center for Human Values joins the wider university community in mourning the death, and celebrating the life, of Albert Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam…

Jan-Werner Mueller in The Guardian
Sept. 22, 2021

Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, writes about the emerging authoritarian-populist art of governance in the September issue of The Guardian.

Victoria McGeer delivers keynote lecture on moral responsibility
Sept. 15, 2021

Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at the University Center for Human Values Victoria McGeer addressed an entirely online audience when she gave a keynote talk at the

Peter Singer awarded Berggruen Prize
Sept. 9, 2021

Peter Singer, Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, is the recipient of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. He received this award for his “widely influential and intellectually rigorous work in reinvigorating utilitarianism as part of academic philosophy and as a force for change in the world.”

Peter Singer co-edits new edition of Mill’s “Utilitarianism”
Aug. 19, 2021

In a new critical edition of John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" to be published by Norton & Company as part of its Library Collection,  co-editors  Peter Singer , the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, and utilitarian philosopher Katarzyna de…

Kim Scheppele on Viktor Orbán in The New Yorker
Aug. 17, 2021

Following Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s recent visit to Hungary, where he praised Viktor Orbán as “someone the West could learn from,” The New Yorker turned to Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values Kim Scheppele for her…

Former LSR Fellow Jennifer Morton’s book is this summer’s Princeton Pre-read
July 30, 2021

Members of the incoming Class of 2025 have received a copy of “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility” by Jennifer Morton, a book Morton says she worked on while serving as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow in University Center for Human Values (2015–2016).

UCHV welcomes Emily Greenwood
July 21, 2021

This month the University Center for Human Values welcomes our newest joint faculty member, Emily Greenwood.  Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values, Greenwood comes to Princeton from Yale University where she was the John M. Musser Professor of Classics and…

Jan-Werner Mueller in The New Yorker and The New York Times
July 14, 2021

Following the release of his latest book, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics Jan-Werner Mueller was interviewed by The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner about his conception of populism and his take on threats to democracy today, and “Democracy…

CEU’s Democracy Institute to hold roundtable on Jan-Werner Mueller’s new book
July 7, 2021

On Thursday, July 8th, The Democracy Institute of Central European University will host a book discussion on Jan-Werner Mueller’s new book "Democracy Rules."

Joining Mueller in the roundtable discussion, which will be moderated by Zsolt…

Andrew Chignell and the meaning of hope on “Naked Reflections” podcast
June 30, 2021

Andrew Chignell, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values, and social psychologist Kitty O’Lone, currently a research fellow at the Woolf Institute (Cambridge), explore the concepts of hope and optimism with Dr. Edward Kessler MBE, Founder…

Philip Pettit answers "Five Questions"
June 30, 2021

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values Philip Pettit describes himself as a philosophical generalist as he answers five questions about himself (and more) posed by M.I.T. Philosophy Professor and Princeton graduate Kieran Setiya (*02) in the second season of…

Farewell 5 Ivy Lane
June 11, 2021

After more than two decades as home to various UCHV faculty, staff, visiting fellows and distinguished teachers, postdocs, sponsored courses and precepts, weekly Human Values Forums and special events like the famed presidential debate viewing parties, the University Center for Human Values is leaving 5 Ivy Lane.

Values and Public Life students earn top awards
May 25, 2021

The University Center for Human Values is pleased to celebrate the outstanding achievements of three members of the Class of 2021 Values and Public Life (VPL) certificate program.

Kelton Chastulik received the Allen Macy Dulles ’51 Award, the highest…

Philip Pettit gives Julius Stone Address 2021
May 24, 2021

Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values, delivered the Julius Stone Address 2021earlier this month – and in person – at the University of Sydney Law School. The lecture was canceled last spring due to the pandemic.  

In “Can the People be…

Jan-Werner Mueller opines on decaying US ‘civic infrastructure’ and global threats to press freedom
May 21, 2021

Amid the Biden Administration’s push for an infrastructure bill that expands the traditional concept of infrastructure, Professor of Politics Jan-Werner Mueller writes in The Guardian that the Biden plan should go a step further and address the nation’s decaying ‘civic infrastructure.’ Read

Peter Singer in The New Yorker
May 20, 2021

Following the launch of his Journal of Controversial Ideas late last month, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values Peter Singer was the subject of The New Yorker Interview that week. The in-depth conversation covered…

Short Movie Prize Winner is Noa Wollstein ‘21
May 6, 2021

The University Center for Human Values is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2021 UCHV Short Movie Prize is Noa Wollstein for “Wednesday at Elizabeth."  View the film here and read an interview with Noa Wollstein here.


 

Kim Scheppele in The New York Times on Orbán government takeover of universities
May 3, 2021

Last week, the Hungarian Parliament voted to transfer the control and assets of 11 state universities to foundations run by allies of President Viktor Orbán.  

In reporting on that historic vote and what it may portend for the future of academic and research autonomy at those universities and the extended dominance of the Orbán regime…

The University Center for Human Values' Graduate Prize Fellows for 2021-22
April 29, 2021

Colin Bradley is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His research explores the role that private moral convictions should play in public institutions. His dissertation argues that public institutions, including but not limited to the state and the law, are necessary in order to develop the content of…

Peter Singer launches Journal of Controversial Ideas
April 28, 2021
No stranger to controversy, Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, has just launched the Journal of Controversial Ideas with fellow philosophers Jeff McMahan and Francesca Minerva.
Renee Bolinger receives ACLS Fellowship
April 26, 2021

Assistant Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values Renee Bolinger has been awarded a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)…

Peter Singer’s “The Golden Ass” edition published
April 23, 2021

Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, is bringing a new version of one of the oldest known novels, Apuleius’ “The Golden Ass,” to a wider reading audience.

Published by Liveright, a subsidiary of W. W. Norton & Company, Singer’s edition of…

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion receives John Templeton Foundation grant
April 22, 2021

The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (PPPR) has been awarded a $234,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the project: “Building Collaborative Research Networks Across the Islamic Scholarly Tradition and Western Philosophy.” The project will focus on developing connections across…

Kim Scheppele in conversation with Ambassador (ret.) Marie Yovanovitch '80
April 14, 2021

Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch became a household name during the first impeachment and Senate trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump. In a frank, one-hour conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of…