We're thrilled that we've been awarded a Capacity-Building Grant from the #EducatingCharacterInitiative through The Program for Leadership and Character The project will expand the capacity of our #ParrHeel program & support research on the Center’s impact on undergrads. Read more: parrcenter.unc.edu/news/eci

Check out the report from our Outreach Director, Michael Vazquez & co-PI Michael Prinzing on the findings from their American Philosophical Association-funded project, "Does Studying Philosophy Make People Better Thinkers?" #ethicseducation #philospphyeducation #ParrCenterresearch

🌱We’ve awarded 4⃣ seed grants to support interdisciplinary data science research projects. Congratulations to the teams, representing faculty and researchers from UNC School of Nursing, UNC School of Medicine, SDSS, UNC College of Arts and Sciences and UNC Parr Center for Ethics! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 go.unc.edu/2024SeedGrantA…

Thursday, 11/7 at 6:30 in Davie 112, Kevin Dorst of MIT will be coming to discuss the ways in which ideology influences Bayesian inferences and leads to biases and polarization ppe.unc.edu/event/ppe-spea…

Undergraduates, are you interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy? Come to our info session on December 2nd to learn more about that process!

🌊 This Spring, Homer’s Odyssey comes alive with free books, intergenerational talks, public readings, school visits & more—thanks to support from NC Humanities! 📚 Stay tuned via Parr Center or email Dr. Vazquez at the Parr Center to get involved. #Homer2025 #NCHumanities

On January 16th in Caldwell 105, UNC PPE will host Professor Mark McNeilly as he delves into the implications of artificial intelligence for politics and warfare. ppe.unc.edu/event/ppe-spea…

Rebecca Walker (FFP ’15, ’24) will be leading UNC Philosophy Department's Ethics Around the Table themed around Doctors in Prisons on February 4 at 12:30 p.m. go.unc.edu/Jx2f3

🚢 Join UNC Classics, Music, & Philosophy for reading groups, staged performances, & public events on Homer’s Odyssey! 📅 Feb 12, 5:30 PM | 📍 Murphey 104 This year, we turn from tragedy to epic poetry! Come to the info session or reach out! UNC College of Arts and Sciences UNC Philosophy Department

Tomorrow, 2/4/25, in Davie Hall at 6:30, Joseph Heath will give a talk wherein he evaluates claims that co-ops are more democratic, equitable, and pro-social than traditional corporations. Come on out for pizza and a stimulating PPE conversation!

Saturday, February 22nd, UNC's PPE program will host three scholars offering valuable and diverse perspectives as they discuss how we should be evaluating societies. Learn more and register here! ppe.unc.edu/event/evaluati…

Join us tomorrow, March 3rd at 6:30 PM in Caldwell 105 for a discussion with Dan Singer about how workers’ creativity and agency are undermined by managerial corporations! There will be a Q&A and pizza after the talk.

The 2024-2025 National Case Set is here! These cases will be featured in the National High School Ethics Bowl Competition next month and are also free to access online via the NHSEB website or link in our bio. Check them out now! #EthicsBowl #CaseSet #NHSEB2025

Friday, March 7th, the one and only Christine Korsgaard will be coming to discuss the relation between standards for goodness and standards for rightness. Join us in Hyde Hall from 2:30-4:30 with refreshments to follow!

The Parr Center for Ethics will be collaborating to host a series of reading groups and live performances centered around Homer's Odyssey! To learn more, go to tarheels.live/odyssey/

Our Markus Kohl has been chosen by Oxford University Press to feature in their Philosophy in Focus: Freedom collection! academic.oup.com/journals/pages… You can read a chapter from his book, Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency, here! academic.oup.com/book/46541 Thank you Oxford Philosophy!

This evening, Elizabeth Anderson will offer a nuanced discussion of the moral constraints in the Protestant work ethic, contrasting it with various exploitative and tyrannical practices we see today and discussing changes which can orient our economy towards the common good