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The 2020 Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. The prize comes with a cash award of $500 as well as formal recognition of the honor at the Department’s spring commencement ceremony. The competition is open...

The Thirteenth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) will be held August 13-16, 2020, on the CU Boulder campus, and is now open for paper submissions. See the call for papers here .

The 12th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) will take place on the CU Boulder campus August 8-11. See the schedule here .

Under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to read someone’s diary without their knowledge? To engage in a loud argument in public? To buy ivory? Eight teams from five area high schools came together to discuss these questions and many more at the third annual Colorado High School...

The twelfth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress will take place August 8-11, 2019 at the University of Colorado Boulder. See the Call for Papers here .

The 2018 Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference , co-sponsored by the CVSP, will be held on the Boulder campus October 18-20, with a keynote by Alison Jaggar .

October 9 5:00-6:30 PM HUMN 250

Alex Worsnip (UNC Chapel Hill) will be our CVSP Visiting Fellow this fall, here from October 1-20. He describes his interests as follows: "The general project I'm working on at the moment (as advertised in my application) is political epistemology. Here's a list of topics that I'm thinking about: Political...

The official schedule for the upcoming Morris Colloquium , "The Self and Its Realizations", has been released. The Colloquium will be held June 16-18, and the full schedule is available here .

Undergraduate Toby Bollig has won the inaugural Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize for the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. An earlier version of his essay, titled “Is Circumventing the Euthyphro Dilemma By Appealing to God’s Nature Problematic?” is available here .