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🌊 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

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Disagreement by Diego Machuca Free access available until 30 December. cup.org/3ZiWMLw #cambridgeelements #philosophy

#odyssey discourse whirling around, but reading epic is not easy because it is a little weird 1. I think almost no one in antiquity ‘read’ Homeric epic from beginning to end.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_gXY… Loved this explanation of research on how moral and political beliefs change over the decades Are the changes due to individual people changing their minds? Or to older people dying and being replaced by young people with different opinions?

For 2025, I am bringing you not only a book, but a series of book interrogations, happening all around the country over the next few months, hopefully including a city near you! Happy New Year!

Upcoming EPP Working Group event: "Legitimacy, Political Obligation, and the Rule of Law Beyond the Unitary State” with Brookes Brown. Register HERE: unc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

I’m so happy to share that my book is now published and available open-access 🥳 Thank you, Cambridge University Press - Politics and Jane Gingrich for this endorsement! (🧵coming soon, too :)

We are excited to announce the Parr Center's Spring 2025 Speaker Series! 🎉   Join us for a series of free lectures presented by distinguished academics from various fields. All are welcome to attend!   #SpeakerSeries #ParrCenterforEthics

Excited to debut a new series of explainer videos-5 min videos explaining concepts/debates in applied epist w/scripts written by experts & animations by the super-talented Ripley Stroud. The 1st features a script by Giulia Napolitano on conspiracy theories youtube.com/watch?v=jtWARw…

Puzzle through a classic ethical dilemma: is community safety more important than individual privacy? t.ted.com/7kEXcJK

On Saturday, K-12 educators from across the Triangle joined us at UNC "The Art of Inquiry: Promoting Responsible Belief in the Classroom." With guidance from Jeff Greene isn't really here anymore. (UNC) & Paula McAvoy (NCState), participants learned strategies for fostering critical thinking... (1/2)

Join us for the first Ethics Around the Table event of the Spring semester featuring Rebecca Walker from the UNC Philosophy and Social Medicine departments! CLE credit will be offered and lunch will be provided. We hope to see you there! #SpeakerSeries #EthicsInMedicine

We were delighted to see the impact research by Michael Prinzing and Michael Vazquez featured in Arthur Brooks’ Atlantic column! From Boethius to today, philosophy can sharpen the mind and enrich your life. Read more here: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… UNC Philosophy Department UNC College of Arts and Sciences

🚢 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

A set of experiments shows that good listening increases the humility of both the listener and the speaker in a conversation — and the effect is stronger on the listener. Learn more: templeton.org/news/to-cultiv…

"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," as recently tweeted by POTUS. But that is what Cicero claimed after 63 BC, and he was sent into exile nonetheless

Congratulations to my colleague Emily Austin on this tremendous news! Austin Wins New Public History of Philosophy Prize - Daily Nous. Wake Forest News Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg APA Blog American Philosophical Association Oxford Philosophy dailynous.com/2025/02/24/aus…

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/

Excited to share our second "explainer video"! (Refresher: these are ~5 min animations introducing applied epistemology concepts for a wide audience.) This one's on polarization, feat. script by Kevin Dorst! Please share, consider using in teaching, etc! youtube.com/watch?v=h9ndBi…

Homer Spring 2025 is well underway! UNC Classicist Ashley Watkins led a great discussion at Epilogue Books on how Ovid reimagines Homer's Odyssey—giving Penelope a voice of her own and a pointed plea for Odysseus to return. More events + free books: tarheel.live/odyssey