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.
Read the full story, "Climate Change Action Acnnot Ignore Social Issues,"
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.
Chapter Abstract: When considering the impacts of climate change, some of them can be addressed through mitigation (reduction of greenhouse…
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…
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.
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.
The conference is…
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.
7th Berlin Kant Course
Andrew Chignell (Princeton)
Knowledge, Belief, Hope and Despair
The Berlin Kant Course is a regularly occurring, compact seminar, where internationally known researchers present their own new work regarding Kant's philosophy, its influence on the history of philosophy, or its reception in…
Using the Institute for Government’s recent report on accountability as a framework, this seminar will focus on the…
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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Melissa Lane delivered a series of lectures throughout Europe, including:
The Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture, University of St Andrews, May 21: "Plato on the Purpose of Rule" The Fifth Annual Joint Lecture of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal…Read Professor Mueller's piece, "Italy: The Bright Side of Populism?," here.
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 AI and Ethics.”
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.
Renee Bolinger, Ph.D., USC (2017) will join the faculty on September 1, 2019, as an Assistant Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values.
Her primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy. Her current work concerns the ethics of risk, just war, moral…
Mark van Roojen is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He works mostly in metaethics, ethics, and political philosophy, and has published papers about moral rationalism, expressivism, moral semantics, moral epistemology, satisficing, and moral psychology. He is the author of "Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction"…
Jan-Werner Mueller will deliver the Wiktor Osiatyński Memorial Lecture in Warsaw on May 16th. The event is organized to honor the memory of the late Wiktor Osiatyński, a law professor at Warsaw and Budapest (Central European University), a promoter of human rights and democracy in Poland and in the region, and one of the authors of the Polish…
Murray Smith is a professor of film and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent, and until recently, was president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.
This year, he is at the UCHV as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, where he is…
Director Lane talks about eight political ideas discussed in her book, "The Birth of Politics."
You can listen to the show here.
Watch the full lecture here: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/wtm73 (link is external)
Men did not start sexually harassing women in the fall of 2017. Why did the Me Too movement spring up just then? And why did it have (as it appears) such a rapid and broad impact on revising social norms? More generally, why is social change so hard…
On Wednesday, April 25th, Jan-Werner Mueller will give a CEHV Distinguished Lecture in Ethics titled “What is Populism? Politics in the Age of Trump.”
More information at: https://cehv.osu.edu/events/cehv-distinguished-lecture-ethics-jan…
Inés Valdez is an assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University. Her work examines the problem of racial, gender, and religious difference in political theory, with a particular focus on the theorization of migration and cosmopolitanism.
As an LSR Visiting Faculty Fellow at the UCHV, Valdez is working on finishing…
Tanner Lectures on Human Values on Human Values with Raj Chetty:
Jan-Werner Mueller will give an Amicus Curiae lecture in Marshall University’s series on Constitutional Democracy on April 16th. The title of Mueller’s talk is “What is Populism?”
Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. She is also a professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies. This semester, Gruen is at the UCHV as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.
“I've found Princeton to be…
In the March 19 The New York Times’ “The Upshot” section, the article “Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites” featuring Raj Chetty’s Equality of…
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In Jan-Werner Mueller's commentary, The People Versus Democracy, Mueller urges people to focus on the structural causes of Populist's success (Italy, Brexit, Trump) rather than the irrationality of the people.
Amy Sepinwall is an associate professor in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has two main research streams, one interrogating the notion of corporate constitutional rights and the other calling for an expansion of the conceptions of responsibility standardly advanced in…
At Princeton, Taub was a philosophy major who displayed significant interest in and inclination towards a career in journalism, demonstrated by his photo exhibit from the frontlines of the war against ISIS on the Turkey/Syrian border, as well as in his participation in journalism classes offered through the Humanities Council's…
Mueller's article, "Is the world getting better or worse?" in the Financial Times examines claims made in Enlightenment Now: the book written by Harvard psychologist, Steven Pinker, that defends scientific rationality and liberal humanism.