Cheng will pursue a one–year Master’s program in Tsinghua University in Beijing next year.
UCHV Graduate Prize Fellow‚ Madison Kilbride‚ recounts the event.
Child Euthanasia: Shall we Just Not Talk About It?
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Professor Luc Bovens gave a talk at an…
Once again this year, I ran the “Giving Game” in my Practical Ethics course. The course discusses, among other topics, the ideas that lie behind the emerging Effective Altruism movement. Effective altruists seek to make the world a better place and to use their resources as effectively as…
Personhood, Ethics, and Cognition
Gary Varner, professor at Texas A&M University and author of
On Monday December 7, Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics class deviated from its pre-arranged schedule to discuss an ethical question that has been hotly debated among the Princeton community: should the university remove the name of Woodrow Wilson from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International…
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
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There are people who do good, and then there are what Larissa MacFarquhar calls "do-gooders". Larissa MacFarquhar of The New Yorker has…
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.
" '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,…
“Justice By Other Means: When Striking Workers Coerce Other Workers”
Professor Alex Gourevitch, a political theorist at Brown University and author of “From Slavery to the…
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Home to Professor Peter Singer, Princeton has a special connection to effective altruism, a global…
Mark Bevir, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley, gave a talk entitled, “Historicism and Critique” at the Political Philosophy Colloquium on October 8th, which focused on his research on the method of “radical historicism” in the philosophy of social…
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.
The goal of the lecture series is to bring to Amsterdam renowned international experts to address today’s big questions, including …
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Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, and UCHV Faculty Associate awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy.
UCHV 25th Anniversary Edition Annual Review.
Meet the Center’s visitors.
The grants are supported by the Program in Political Philosophy and can be accessed in SAFE.
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.
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 ‘
Peter Singer discusses the logic of "Effective Altruism" on a Boston Review Forum.
Philip Pettit’s April Tanner Lectures: “The Birth of Ethics.”
Peter Singer’s June Tanner Lectures:“From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy.”…
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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).
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.
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1985. He is the Director of UNC’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics…
This book originated from the 2012 Tanner Lectures on Human Values hosted by UCHV.
Princeton University Press Q&A session about the book also available at: http://blog.press.princeton.edu…
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.
Forty students nationally were awarded the Gates Scholarship‚ which allows students to pursue postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.
Jane Abbottsmith, a religion major and a senior in the Values and Public Life undergraduate certificate program, was recently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The recipients of this prestigious award have the opportunity to pursue a postgraduate degree in any…
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.