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Join Dr. Michael Vazquez (Parr Center for Ethics) and Dr. Todd Boyette (Morehead Planetarium) at the Science for All Summit next week for a workshop on navigating multicultural tensions in STEM education to foster inclusive learning environments! #DiversityofThought #STEM

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

We're excited to visit and support the #NHSEB25 National Championship, coming up this April at UNC-Chapel Hill. 🩵🐐🤍 Check out the new competition cases! #EthicsBowl #NHSEB

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…

Join us on April 2nd for the next event of our Spring Speaker Series, in collaboration with UNC Bioethics, featuring Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby of Baylor College of Medicine! This event is free and open to the public. #Bioethics #SpeakerSeries #ParrCenter

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

The Parr Center is excited to celebrate its 20th Anniversary this Thursday, April 24th! Join us for reflections on the Parr Center’s founding, a graduation celebration for the 2025 Parr Center Ethics Scholars, a lecture by Professor Tom Dougherty, and a reception to follow.🎉

We’re so proud of graduating senior Ethan Delves, who brought curiosity, open-mindedness, and a spirit of service to his work in philosophy, economics, and the Parr Center. Read more via UNC College of Arts and Sciences 🔗 college.unc.edu/2025/04/delves/

Can we be free in a world ruled by cause and effect? UNC’s Markus Kohl had the Kaffeeklatsch crowd at the Seymour Center gripped, as he unpacked Kant’s daring answer to the problem of freedom and determinism.

Each year, UNC Parr Center for Ethics hosts the National High School Ethics Bowl, a competitive, collaborative event where students discuss real-life ethical issues. In this The Associated Press story, read how the program brings students together to tackle tough topics go.unc.edu/t9AMw 📸 AP Photo

This spring our Parr Heels led 20 (!) ethics sessions at 3 local schools—sparking conversations on cloning, conscience, and tough historical choices. Big thanks to student leaders Anjali & Kate (📸 with the world’s cutest thank-you card from Githens MS)! #EthicsInAction

🧠 What do we owe the dead? In the latest TED-Ed + Parr Center video, UNC College of Arts and Sciences's Sarah Stroud & Michael Vazquez explore promises made to a dying spouse—and whether they must be kept years later. 🎥 Watch: go.unc.edu/wishes 🔍 More dilemmas: go.unc.edu/ted-ed

NEW VIDEO: How should we determine who has rights over a creation, invention, or work? Puzzle through this classic ethical dilemma: t.ted.com/MMGLIT2

We are excited to share this fun and thought-provoking video from our collaboration with TED-Ed. Intellectual property, creativity, and fairness — all explored through the story of a city where magic is for sale. Watch it here 👇

Congrats to UNC Parr Center for Ethics for being awarded a major three-year Institutional Impact Grant from the Educating Character Initiative 🎉 The grant will support a new UNC-Chapel Hill initiative to help students develop essential intellectual and ethical habits go.unc.edu/j5YDo

Michael Vazquez and I analyzed data from over half a million college students, looking at tests of verbal, logical, and mathematical reasoning, plus self-report measures of valuable habits of mind (a mix of curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual rigor, etc.) 2/4

Of course it's not as strong as a randomized experiment, but we think this is really striking evidence that philosophy does make people better thinkers! The open-access paper is now available in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association! doi.org/10.1017/apa.20… 4/4