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Survivor Guilt

March 11, 2022
Jordan MacKenzie, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information We often feel survivor guilt when the very circumstances that harm others leave us unscathed. Although survivor guilt is both commonplace and intelligible, it raises a puzzle when...

Institutional Resources for Moral Distress: What works?

March 7, 2022
Please join us for engaging conversation! Pre-reading if able: Must we be courageous?   Click here to join   Speakers are members of the Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative: Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C (UAMS) Ashley Hurst, JD, Mdiv, MA (UVA) Heather Fitzgerald, DBe, MS, RN, HEC-C (Stanford Children’s) Phyllis Whitehead, PhD,...

Towards a Better Understanding of Craving in Addiction: Philosophy, Science, Ethics

February 14, 2022
Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at  Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and with a secondary appointment to the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Prior to joining Hopkins, she held a Chair in Philosophy of Psychology at the University...

So You Have to Write an Ethics Essay

February 9, 2022
SHS2 Students, So you have to write an ethics essay for SHS2? The Clinical Ethics Discussion Group (CEDG), in collaboration with the Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) and Center for Bioethics, is hosting a workshop for all MS1s on how to craft an ethical argument. The workshop will involve case-based discussions...

Responsibility without Blame: Working with “Unwise Choices” in Healthcare Contexts

February 9, 2022
Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at  Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and with a secondary appointment to the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Prior to joining Hopkins, she held a Chair in Philosophy of Psychology at the University...

Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

January 22, 2022
Wednesday, September 14th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm Heidi J Larson, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the...

Moral Memories and the Self

January 20, 2022
Felipe De Brigard, PhD Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy Duke University   Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information It is commonly held that autobiographical memory structures our personal identity through time, and that it provides the foundation of our enduring self. Recently, however, a number of studies...

The Virtue of Being Nonjudgmental

January 19, 2022
Tom Dougherty, PhD Professor, Mary Noel and William M. Lamont Scholar Department of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill   Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. Abstract: Many people seek nonjudgmental friends and aim to be nonjudgmental themselves. This suggests that there is a virtue to being nonjudgmental, but...

2022 Annual EBT Conference: Recovery and Resilience

January 5, 2022
Recovery and Resilience The North Carolina Child Treatment Program seeks to address the gap between researched best practice and community-based mental health services for children and families overcoming trauma. Through the Spring 2022 Annual EBT Conference, NC CTP aims to help our Learning Collaborative graduates sustain and improve EBT implementation...

NC JOLT’s 2022 Symposium

January 3, 2022
NC JOLT’s annual symposia focus on cutting-edge legal issues in a wide array of technology-related topics. These symposia are open to UNC students and staff, NCBA members seeking CLE credit, and members of the public. The 2022 Symposium The North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology Vol. 23 Symposium will...