University Center for Human Values

"The University Center for Human Values was established in 1990 by an interdisciplinary faculty group led by founding director Amy Gutmann, at the time professor of politics at Princeton and now president of the University of Pennsylvania. The aim was to deepen and enhance collaboration at Princeton among scholars across the disciplines with a shared commitment to research and teaching about values in public and private life....

"A generous gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller ’32 enabled the center to launch what have become its signature activities: a visiting scholars' program, a fellowship program for outstanding Princeton graduate students, an interdisciplinary colloquium on ethics and public affairs, and a lecture series on ethics and political philosophy. The Rockefeller gift also supports several joint faculty positions in politics, philosophy and the Woodrow Wilson School. Beginning in 2010, the gift has also made possible the center’s undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life... "Since its inception, the center has been directed by Amy Gutmann, George Kateb and Stephen Macedo. Charles Beitz is the current director."

Board
Accessed January 2011:


 * K. Anthony Appiah - Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Acting Director of the Tanner Committee on Human Values
 * Charles R. Beitz - Director of the University Center for Human Values, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics
 * Peter Brooks - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values
 * Christopher Eisgruber - Provost, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values
 * Elizabeth Harman - Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor
 * Nannerl O. Keohane - Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values
 * Erika A. Kiss - Associate Research Scholar, Director of the University Center for Human Values Film Forum
 * Stephen Macedo (on leave for 2010-2011) - Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
 * Victoria McGeer (on leave for 2010-2011) - Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values
 * Philip Pettit (on leave for 2010-2011) - Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor for Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Director of the Program in Political Philosophy
 * Kim Lane Scheppele - Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs
 * John Seery - Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching
 * Peter Singer (on leave in spring 2011) - Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human

Contact
URL: http://uchv.princeton.edu