Princeton University Center for Human Values Annual Review 2022–23

Annual Review 2022-23

Letter from the Director

Faculty Accomplishments

Deepening Understanding

Tanner Lectures on Human Values

James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics

Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars

Political Philosophy Colloquium

History of Political Thought Project

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

Law Engaged Graduate Students

UCHV Collaborative Projects

Co-sponsored Events and Conferences

Co-sponsored Series

UCHV Special Events

Teaching and Learning

Program in Values and Public Life Courses and Seminars

Film Forum

Human Values Forum

Student Prizes and Grants

Supporting Research

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows

UCHV Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Morality

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Cognitive Science of Values

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Values and Public Policy

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Philosophy and Religion

Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellows

Visiting Scholars

University, state, county, and local officials, along with family, friends, faculty, staff, and students, attend the dedication of Laura Wooten Hall (UCHV’s offices proudly occupy the third floor). President Christopher L. Eisgruber (right) shakes hands with Caasi Love (left) after the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Letter from the Director

The lifeblood of the UCHV community is, as ever, its people. In the 2022–23 academic year we were graced with a remarkably rich and generative group of people. It was tremendously exciting to welcome Molly Crockett to campus as associate professor of psychology and the University Center for Human Values, and to witness Molly’s immediate immersion in galvanizing rich interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations, across issues ranging from transformational experience to the critical study of science and technology to the nature of moral narratives (this last drawing on research with UCHV-supported postdoc Judy Kim, and resonating with interests in narrative and ethics shared by Tori McGeer, Elvira Basevich, Sandra Bermann, Tania Lombrozo, and many others affiliated with the Center). We welcomed back Pratap Bhanu Mehta as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching for a second spring semester, benefiting from his thoughtful teaching of a major introductory course in political theory on the topic of truth and politics; and welcomed Alison McQueen also as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Associate Professor for Distinguished Teaching for the full year, teaching an engaging and highly organized iteration of a core course on modern political theory, and returning to the Center after a prior stint as a visiting fellow.

With several of the visiting fellows having had past lives at UCHV or Princeton more generally, as well as an unusually high number of visiting scholars and a new crop of visiting fellows in law, the hospitality and energy of combining these arrivals and returns resulted in a notably interactive and mutually engaged year. This was reflected in initiatives taken to organize multiple modes of interaction, ranging from informal BBQs and regular reading and work-in-progress groups, especially clustering around the topic of race; to a Thanksgiving dinner hosted for our visiting scholars from Russia by Alison McQueen and Leif Wenar; to a collective writing retreat at the end of the year organized by Briana Toole. An unforgettable panel discussion of exile and justice was convened by Desmond Jagmohan with several of our visiting scholars from Russia and Taiwan (formerly based in Hong Kong) participating: Joseph Chan, Arseniy Kumankov, and Evgeny Roshchin. New staff member Jane Peters oversaw UCHV’s successful collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts and McCarter Theatre in hosting a panel discussion and reception in conjunction with the stage production of “Felon” by formerly incarcerated poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts. Erika Kiss pursued initiatives in film within the Center which included (among other activities) a film school for undergraduates over spring break with visiting filmmaker Gyula Gazdag. Three UCHV postdoctoral research associates (David Kinney, Emily Foster-Hanson, Ian Peebles) presented a curated panel on the ethics of medical research to an interdisciplinary workshop on Precision Health convened by Princeton scientists. Center faculty, scholars, and visiting fellows and faculty organized additional workshops and symposia on topics ranging from

value theory (Leif Wenar) to Duboisian democracy (Elvira Basevich) to debates about fascism (Jan-Werner Müller, among the activities of the Forum in the History of Political Thought), new books by James Fleming and by Andrew Koppelman (Steve Macedo), multiple conferences in philosophy and religion (Lara Buchak, Andrew Chignell), as well as in food ethics (Andrew Chignell, Tania Lombrozo, Peter Singer), virtual seminars on climate mobility (Anna Stilz)—and so much more.

I mention the above to give a taste of the lively activities which filled rooms and Zoom screens virtually every week and weekend throughout the year. These were in addition to the major ongoing series of public lectures and regular seminars which are reported elsewhere in this report. Special highlights included the community of writers, artists, and political thinkers who converged around Fintan O’Toole’s scintillating Tanner Lectures; the remarkable novelistic narrative about dignity and historical injustice which animated Lea Ypi’s Moffett Lecture, and the deep reflection on democracy and aesthetics in the thought of W.E.B. Du Bois which was pursued in the Moffett Lecture by Robert Gooding-Williams.

In addition to this rich panoply of research activities, the Center continued to contribute to the educational programs of the University in important ways. Sandra Bermann led the Values and Public Life program with warmth and distinction, and carefully constructed the successful case for its conversion into one of the University’s new “minors” in the coming academic year; she was supported by a great team of postdocs—Kathryn Joyce, David Kinney, and Gabriel Mares—who led the VPL senior thesis workshops. Elizabeth Harman returned to her role as director of early-career research, working tirelessly with the Graduate Prize Fellows and postdocs to help them advance their professional careers (with notable successes for many this year in attaining postdocs and tenure-track positions). Jan-Werner Müller directed the interdisciplinary Program in Political Philosophy, which is based in the Center, with energy and vision. Martin Flaherty stepped in as acting director of the Law Engaged Graduate Students group and built it into a lively law-focused community on campus more broadly, incorporating visiting fellows in law, ethics, and public policy in UCHV and SPIA this year, and many others: this was UCHV’s contribution to an overarching collaboration with SPIA now termed Law@ Princeton. (This will continue as an umbrella in the future, with two new programs constituting its main poles: UCHV will next year launch a new Program in Law and Normative Thinking (PLANT) directed by Kim Scheppele, while SPIA will launch a new Program in Law and Public Policy directed by Deborah Pearlstein.) In the meantime, Kim Murray supported all of these academic initiatives and more this past year with care, attention to detail, and concern for the flourishing of all involved.

In addition to Jane Peters and Kim Murray, mentioned above, I would like to thank the other UCHV staff members whom I have not yet mentioned in this letter, namely Dawn Disette (supporting PEPA, my own role as UCHV director, and the community in Wooten Hall, among much else); Kim Girman (supporting the DeCamp Seminars, Film Forum, Forum in the History of Political Thought, and the community in Green Hall, among much else); Tammy Hojiebane (organizing the Tanner Lectures, Moffett Lectures, and UCHV newsletter and communications, with verve); Andrew Perhac (supporting all tech needs within UCHV, not an easy task)—and, with her finger on the pulse of the Center as a whole, caring for financial probity, communal wellbeing, and excellence overall, assistant director Regin Davis.

Finally, I thank the members of the UCHV executive committee for the many and varied ways in which they contribute to the flourishing of the Center, with particular thanks to those who served this past year on an advisory committee to me as director (Sandra Bermann, Elizabeth Harman, Jan-Werner Müller, Michael Smith, Anna Stilz). We also had the opportunity to celebrate many honors bestowed upon members of the Center faculty this year: to name only a few, Elizabeth Harman was announced as the giver of the Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford in 2024; I was myself honored to receive Princeton’s 2023 Faculty Community Engagement Award from the John H. Pace, Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement; Philip Pettit was awarded the Special Jury Prize by the Sakip Sabanci Foundation (and University) in Istanbul; Peter Singer was co-winner of the 2023 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences; and Michael Smith was one of the two recipients of Princeton University’s highest honor in the humanities, the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. While these awards recognize external achievements, they are built on the fluid and ongoing participation in research, conversation, reflection, and action which the Center exists to foster. As I began by saying, so I will end: the lifeblood of the Center community is its people.

Melissa Lane Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Faculty Accomplishments

Edward Baring

Presented papers at Harvard University and at the University of Toronto; invited to give the 2023 Thomas Aquinas lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven in Belgium; interviewed by Pietro Braga for the KU Leuven alumni newsletter; published “The Human Self after the Death of Man” in “A Cultural History of Ideas” (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Andrew Chignell

Served out his final year as president of the North American Kant Society (NAKS); curated and hosted a series of online events called “Virtual NAKS”; published research in a variety of specialty and generalist journals and anthologies; updated (with the help of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning) his Massive Open Online Course on “Food Ethics,” which will go live on Coursera in fall 2023; gave talks at events in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Israel, Germany, Italy, Serbia, and the U.K.

Molly Crockett

Presented research to His Holiness The Dalai Lama at the Mind & Life Dialogues in Dharamsala, India; awarded grants from the John S. McDonnell Foundation and Princeton’s Data-Driven Social Science Initiative; received fellowship from the Mind & Life Institute; delivered keynote addresses at the Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion and the International Conference for Computational Social Science; gave seminars at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Knight First Amendment Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Princeton University; organized the virtual “Moral Narratives Workshop”; published papers in Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, Psychological Science, and NeuroImage; joined the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

Erika Kiss

Named director of the UCHV Research Film Studio; organized and co-taught the Research Film Studio’s first intensive film school over spring break; curated an exhibition for the 2023 Venice Biennale. Part of the exhibition in the garden of Palazzo Mora is her research film, “Assembly & Disassembly,” which is installed on a large outdoor LED panel.

Melissa Lane

Published “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political” (Princeton University Press, 2023); honored with the annual Community Engagement Faculty Award by Princeton’s John H. Pace, Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement; made 10th appearance as panelist on the flagship BBC Radio 4 program “In Our Time,” this time discussing Solon the Lawgiver; spoke as one of 26 philosophers worldwide in online conference, “What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine.”

Stephen Macedo

Gave the Donald Brown Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont on “The Crisis of American Democracy: How the Left Contributes, and Why We Should Stop” and delivered versions of this lecture at Singapore Management University, the University of Sydney, the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, Middlebury College, Princeton University, the University of Reykjavik, and elsewhere; presented and published “Refugeehood Reconsidered: The Central American Migration Crisis” and also “Confucian Democracy in East Asia: A Discussion of Sungmoon Kim’s ‘Democracy After Virtue’”; worked on a Princeton workshop and book manuscript on “Democracy Under Covid,” co-authored with Frances Lee.

Victoria McGeer

Elected to the Australian Academy of Humanities as a Corresponding Fellow, 2022; invited for a semester fellowship to the Centre for Advanced Studies for a project on ‘human abilities,’ funded jointly by the Humboldt University and Freie University Berlin; presented papers at a workshop on constructing social hierarchy at the University of Melbourne in Australia and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Philip Pettit

Published a book entitled “The State” (Princeton University Press, 2023); awarded the 2023 Special Jury Prize from the Sakip Sabanci Foundation and University, Istanbul, for studies “in the field of republicanism”; gave the Claire Miller Lecture in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Franz Brentano Lectures in Practical Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and the inaugural Condorcet Lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris; invited speaker at a conference on international representation at the College de France and took part afterwards in a conference on his work in civic republicanism in Barcelona.

Kim Lane Scheppele

The Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professorship in Women’s and Gender Studies was established at the University of Michigan with Anna Kirkland as its occupant; delivered the Grotius Lecture at the annual meetings of the American Association of International Law; plenary speaker at the World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law; delivered the Bederman Lecture at the Emory University School of Law; plenary speaker at a conference at the University of Alabama School of Law on the 20th anniversary of the publication of her article on “Constitutional Ethnography”; co-authored second report on the rule of law and conditionality funding in Hungary that was adopted by a supermajority of the Europe-

an Parliament and then largely adopted by the European Commission, freezing €28 billion in EU funds to Hungary; invited as director’s guest to spend the spring 2023 semester at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Peter Singer

“Animal Liberation Now” was published in May 2023 by HarperCollins in North America, and by Penguin Random House elsewhere; a new edition of “Ethics in the Real World” was published by Princeton University Press in April; “The Buddhist and the Ethicist,” a dialogue between Singer and Venerable Shih Chao-hwei, will be published by Shambala in December; received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the Humanities for “innovative academic contributions to the domains of rationality and moral progress” with Steven Pinker at a ceremony in Bilbao, Spain; co-authored articles on “Speciesist bias in AI,” published in AI and Ethics, with Thilo Hagendorff, Leonie Bossert, and Tse Yip Fai and on “Allocating Hospital Beds in the Pandemic,” published in Analiza i Egzystencja, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek; his essay on “The Simplest Way to Change the Planet’s Fate” appeared in The New York Times on Earth Day 2023 and his essay on “The Meat Paradox” appeared in The Atlantic in May 2023. In other popular writings, Singer has discussed abortion, effective altruism, geoengineering, protests by climate activists, and welfare comparisons between animals of different species.

Anna Stilz

Published “Are Citizens Culpable for State Action?” in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; gave talks at the Duke University/University of North Carolina Political Theory Workshop, the Columbia University Political Theory Workshop, the Australian National University Moral and Political Theory Seminar, the Cardozo Law School Colloquium, the Washington University Conference on “Borders, Territoriality, and the State System,” and a workshop on territory and time at NOVA University-Lisbon.

Annual Review 2022–23

Robert Gooding-Williams speaks with a student after delivering his talk “Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk’” for the James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics.

Deepening Understanding

Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are presented annually at a select list of universities around the world. The University Center serves as host to these lectures at Princeton, in which an eminent scholar from philosophy, religion, the humanities, sciences, creative arts, or learned professions, or a person eminent in political or social life, is invited to present a series of lectures reflecting upon scholarly and scientific learning relating to “the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition.”

November 9-10, 2022

Fintan O’Toole, visiting lecturer in English and theater and the Lewis Center for the Arts and the visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters, delivered the fall Tanner Lectures. In his two-part lecture series, “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art,” O’Toole addressed how the relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in

opposite directions. Ideas that once belonged to artists—provocation, invention, and knowingness —are now the substance of reactionary politics. O’Toole’s first lecture reflected on aspects of the artfulness, or aestheticization, of contemporary populist and reactionary politics. He discussed five tools formerly used by artists that have been either co-opted or defanged by populist politicians: suspension of disbelief, transgression, irony, narrative trope, and authenticity. At the conclusion of O’Toole’s first lecture, he left us with a question: can art any longer serve a democratic function?

O’Toole opened his second lecture by asking what was distinctive about the contemporary forms that artfulness, or aestheticization, has taken on populist and reactionary politics. He suggests that there are four key aspects to this, none of which is entirely new, but the combination of which is novel and problematic. Since it seems unlikely that democracy can be altogether separated from art, O’Toole identified

Left to right: Wendy Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Melissa Lane, Fintan O’Toole, Stephen Macedo, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and Alexander Nehamas gather at the 2023 Tanner Lectures.

the fundamental question of how it might be possible to distinguish between good and bad art in politics, and if such a distinction can be made, whether good art might in some way exemplify good politics. He explained that democracy cannot sustain itself without what John Keats called “negative capability”—the capacity to live with doubts, uncertainties, and mysteries without having to impose apparent resolutions. The current crisis of democracy is rooted in the loss of this capacity and the insistence that contradictions are inherently intolerable.

The following scholars gave responses:

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania)

Wendy Brown (Institute for Advanced Study)

Rebecca Solnit (Writer, historian, activist)

Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)

Tanner Committee

Chair: Stephen Macedo

Committee Members: Ruha Benjamin, Eric Gregory, Tera Hunter, Melissa Lane, Philip Pettit, Anu Ramaswami, Gideon Rosen, Nigel Smith, Anna Stilz

James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics

The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life, broadly construed, at either a theoretical or a practical level, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.

Above left: Fintan O’Toole responds to an audience question at the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

Above right: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw delivers her commentary at the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

Robert GoodingWilliams delivers the fall Moffett lecture.

November 17, 2022

Robert Gooding-Williams, the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and professor of philosophy and of African-American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University delivered the fall Moffett Lecture. His lecture, “Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk,’” is based on his paper studying W.E.B. Du Bois’ moral psychology of white supremacy. He drew on Du Bois’ neglected classic, “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil,” to explain how white supremacy undermines group moral sensibility and how art might restore it.

Gooding-Williams developed an account of the moral psychology of white supremacy and illustrated the formation of unconscious biases. He explained that enculturation into white supremacy creates vicious moral agents and that it is a destructive sociohistorical force that agents’ moral judgments and actions bring about. White supremacy highlights their systematic, group-based moral failure. Art is ideally suited to tackle the unconscious formation of biases. To be sure, art is just one strategy among many that Du Bois proposes to dislodge white supremacy. But art has a special role in the moral

education of the vicious: “Beauty calls the white supremacist to question their conception of what it is to live an ethical life,” argued GoodingWilliams. Following Du Bois, he anchored his critique of white moral psychology to an ethical ideal that many white Americans avow: the Christian ethical ideal. White Christians might eventually see how their ethical ideal contradicts their racism, revealing the hypocrisy of such “white souls.” Art can spur moral self-development by making vivid the contradiction between an ethical ideal one values and the beliefs one holds; it can motivate an agent to reconcile their beliefs and ideals to forge a more coherent evaluative outlook.

February 9, 2023

Lea Ypi, professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, delivered the spring Moffett Lecture, “Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family’s History.” Through a gripping reading of a chapter from her forthcoming prequel to her 2021 memoir “Free,” Ypi narrated her experience learning about her family in the state security service archives in Tirana, Albania. She reflected on questions such as “What can one woman’s journey to the authority for information concerning documentation of

Lea Ypi delivers the spring Moffett lecture.

the former state security service reveal about her home country, her family’s past, and human dignity?”; “What can the authority for information concerning documentation of the former state security service tell us about the possibility of human dignity, moral agency, and the exercise of freedom?”; “How do identity, nation, and political vision come together and apart?”

Ypi discusses that at the center of her forthcoming book is her grandmother, Leman, whose life spanned massive social, political, and cultural transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through the character of her grandmother, Ypi deals with these transformations and their effects on the possibility of retaining dignity, asserting moral agency, and exercising human freedom. Ypi’s book and lecture explore the moral and political meanings of both individual and collective dignity in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

The Program in Ethics and Public Affairs (PEPA) advances the study of the moral purposes and foundations of institutions and practices, both domestic and international. PEPA seminars seek to bring the perspectives of moral and political philosophy to bear on significant issues in public affairs.

Fall 2022

September 22

“Ending the Data Economy”

Carissa Véliz, University of Oxford

October 6

“Subjective Security”

Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University

October 27

“The Grotian Rights Revolution”

Daniel Lee, University of California-Berkeley

Spring 2023

February 16

“The Anti-Social Contract”

Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University

March 24

“Displays of Force: Black Rebellion & the Spectacular Violence of Police”

Erin Pineda, Smith College

Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars

DeCamp Seminars range across a wide variety of topics at the intersections of philosophy, ecology, biology, medicine, and public policy. The seminar series is made possible by a gift from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation.

Fall 2022

September 14

“Evaluative Uncertainty” (written with Jake Ross)

Joe Horton, University College London

October 12

“Abortion, Prenatal Injury, and What Matters Across Alternative Possible Lives”

Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford

November 2

“Was the Lockdown Racist?”

Alex Broadbent, Durham University

November 30

“A Modified Volitional Account of Racism and Its Use in Healthcare”

Ian Peebles, Princeton University

Spring 2023

February 8

“A Capabilities Approach to Causal Fairness in Machine Learning Addressing Algorithmic Bias”

Alexander Tolbert, University of Pennsylvania

February 22

“A Metaphysical Mapping Problem for Race Theorists and Human Population Geneticists” (in “Remapping Race in a Global Context”)

Quayshawn Spencer, University of Pennsylvania

March 8

“The Role of Confidence in the Hard Problem of Addiction”

S. Matthew Liao, New York University

April 19

“Refusals, Commands, and the Scope of Discursive Injustice”

Hallie Liberto, University of Maryland

An audience member at a Law Engaged Graduate Students event.

Political Philosophy Colloquium

The Political Philosophy Colloquium is co-sponsored by the Department of Politics. It presents talks by scholars from Princeton and elsewhere on a broad range of topics in the history of political thought, contemporary political philosophy, and related subjects.

Fall 2022

September 29

“Digital Republicanism: How to Govern Technology”

Jamie Susskind, author and barrister

December 8

“Structural Power and Structural Change”

Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis

Spring 2023

February 23

“Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy”

James Kloppenberg, Harvard University

March 9

“Should We Abandon Talk of Moral Equality?”

Anne Phillips, London School of Economics

April 20

“More Democracy, Democracy That Is More, or Democracy No More?”

Wendy Brown, Institute for Advanced Study

History of Political Thought Project

The History of Political Thought Project provides a venue for Princeton students and faculty from different disciplines to discuss both substantive and methodological issues in the history of political thought and seeks to build bridges to comparative politics, comparative constitutional law, and area studies.

Fall 2022

September 30-October 1

“Political Associations Revisited: Normative, Legal, and Historical Perspectives”

Chaired by Jan-Werner Müller

Speakers: Daniel Browning, Philipp Busse, Atticus Carnell, Gülçin Balamir Coşkun, Peter Giraudo, Alexander Guerrero, Jan-Henrik Herchenröder, Samuel Issacharoff, Dongxian Jiang, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Sabine Kropp, Gabriel Levine, Gábor Mészáros, Gaby Nair, Rick Pildes, Kim Lane Scheppele, Maximilian Schneider, Eva-Lotte Schwarz, Eva-Maria Stadler, Ertug Tombus, Uwe Volkmann, Silvia von Steinsdorff, and Greg Yudin.

December 9

“What Kinds of Elites, If Any, Does Democracy Need?”

Chaired by Jan-Werner Müller

Speakers: Lisa Disch, Hugo Drochon, John Medearis, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nadia Urbinati

December 10

“Facism: A One-Day Discussion”

Chaired by Jan-Werner Müller and Martin Conway

Speakers: Christian Bailey, Victoria De Grazia, Philip Decker, Eric Fassin, Udi Greenberg, Erika Kiss, Kim Lane Scheppele, Federico Marcon, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sam Moyn, Nadia Urbinati, and Joseph Vogl.

Spring 2023

May 2

“Why Is It Worth Talking About Rousseau Now?”

Chaired by Greg Conti

Speakers: Flora Champy and Michael Sonenscher

Top: James E. Fleming delivers a lecture “The Supreme Court’s Overruling of Roe v. Wade: What’s Next for Liberty, Equality, and the Constitution?” Bottom left: commentator Keith Whittington. Bottom right: event moderator Stephen Macedo.

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) is an initiative of the University Center, in cooperation with Princeton’s Department of Philosophy and Department of Religion. 3PR brings together an interdisciplinary group of students and scholars who share a research interest in the philosophy of religion, broadly construed.

Recurring Events

3PR Working Group

Islamic Philosophy Reading Group

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion and Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion Joint Colloquium

Conferences and Workshops—

Spring 2023

February 17

Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion and Center for Culture, Society, and Religion Workshop

“Mind and Representation: Approaches from German Idealist and Buddhist Philosophies”

March 30-31

3PR Conference

“Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitment”

Keynote Speakers: Clare Carlisle (King’s College London) and Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)

May 17 and May 19

3PR Early Career Workshop on Islamic and Anglophone Philosophy

May 18

3PR Book Symposium and Conference

“Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy: New Directions”

Law Engaged Graduate Students

Law Engaged Graduate Students (LEGS) meets during the academic year to discuss a work in progress by a participating graduate student. At LEGS meetings, graduate associates present academic papers, dissertation proposals, and dissertation chapters to an audience of fellow graduate students.

Seminars

Fall 2022

November 1

“Making Markets for Data and Predictions: ‘Information Flows, Corporate Power, and Rule of Law in the Digital Economy’”

Marie-Lou Laprise, Sociology

November 4

“A Reinterpretation of Carl Schmitt’s Concept of Sovereignty”

Tristan Hughes, Politics

November 15

“Rule without Law: How Hungary’s Permanent State of Exception Dismantled the Rule of Law” Gábor Mészáros, UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics, Public Policy

November 29

“Modernizing Regulatory Review: A Democratic Approach”

Gabriel Levine, Politics

Spring 2023

February 14

“Addressing the HQ2 Problem: The Antitrust Harms of Corporate Location Incentives”

Brian Highsmith, Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

February 28

Book Workshop

Martin Flaherty

Deepening Understanding

March 7

“Asian Americans and the Law: The Constitution in Action”

Honorable Denny Chin ’75, Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

March 23

“The Supreme Court’s Overruling of Roe v. Wade: What’s Next for Liberty, Equality, and the Constitution?”

James Fleming, Boston University

March 28

“Partisan Bias in Securities Enforcement”

Reilly Steel, Politics

April 4

“Subsidizing Free Enterprise: Ground Stations, Development, and Corporate Ownership, 1962”

Haris Durrani, History

April 11

“Equitable Estoppel in the Age of Adhesion”

Erin Islo, Philosophy

April 14

“Race, Entrapment and the Manufacturing of ‘Homegrown Terrorism’”

Sahar Aziz, Visiting Professor of Politics

April 21

“Bugs In Democracy: A Complex Systems Approach To Understanding Problems and Reforms”

Samuel Wang, Neuroscience

April 25

“The Force of Unwritten Laws: Anthropology and the Study of Philippine Customary Law, 1905-1931”

Jonathan Victor Baldoza, History

UCHV Collaborative Projects

In the 2022-23 academic year, the UCHV fostered collaborations with these campus communities, expanding and deepening ties that extend beyond sponsorship of events.

The Climate Futures Initiative in Science, Values, and Policy (CFI) is an interdisciplinary research program at Princeton University, administered by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and co-sponsored by HMEI and UCHV.

The initiative explores normative and positive approaches to the future of humankind, especially as that future is affected by climate change. The initiative features a wide-ranging dialogue across disciplines and world regions, with considerable attention to ethics.

The Climate Mobilities Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars from a range of institutions who examine the ethics, justice, policies, and science of climate displacement, immobility, and migration.

Law@Princeton is a joint initiative of Princeton University, UCHV, and the School of Public and International Affairs. Law@Princeton explores the role of law in constituting politics, society, the economy, and culture. Each year, Princeton welcomes a select group of residential fellows and occasional visitors drawn from the academy, legal practice, government, and policymaking institutions. They join a collection of professors on Princeton’s permanent faculty who draw upon diverse methodologies to investigate legal phenomena. By combining the multidisciplinary expertise of Princeton’s faculty with knowledge and perspectives provided by leading academic and practical experts on the law, Law@Princeton has created an exciting new forum for teaching and research about the legal technologies and institutions needed to address the complex problems of the 21st century.

Co-sponsored Events and Conferences

The organizing department is given in parentheses.

Fall 2022

September 27-28

Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D. ’61 and Martha A. Darling *70 Lecture in Ethics and Policy in Bioengineering (Princeton Bioengineering Initiative)

October 6-8

Princeton South Asia Graduate Conference: “Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial” (PIIRS)

October 26

Book talk with Peter Singer and Ellen Finkelpearl at Labyrinth Books: “The Golden Ass” (Labyrinth Books)

November 7-9

“Object Mobilities Workshop” (Art and Archaeology)

November 29

“Nation Building and Sustainment in Indian Country” (Anthropology)

Spring 2023

January 31

“The Falling Sky and The Yanomami Struggle” (Brazil LAB)

February 17

“Mind and Representation: Approaches from German Idealist and Buddhist Philosophies” (Center for Culture, Society and Religion)

February 24

“That’s History? Thirty Years After the End of Apartheid” (History)

March 2

“Felon: An American Washi Tale,” followed by UCHV panel discussion (Lewis Center for the Arts)

March 2-3

“Law, Citizenship, and Dissent in India: A Roundtable Discussion” (M.S. Chadha Center for Global India)

March 4-5

Graduate Conference: Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine and Biology Workshop (Classics)

March 24

“North-East Milton Seminar: Milton and Monism, Yet Once More” (English)

March 25

“Art and Devotion—New Accounts of Religious Culture, Race, and Gender in the United States” (Religion)

March 25-26

“Black Political Thought: Democracy, Resistance, and Social Movements Under Racial Oppression Conference” (Philosophy)

April 12

Book talk with Wendy Brown and Fintan O’Toole at Labyrinth Books: “Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber” (Labyrinth Books)

April 14

“Nexus/Zusammenhang: Rethinking Interconnectivity” (German)

April 15

Russian Poetry in a Time of War: International Conference (Slavic Languages and Literatures)

May 2

PPH Spring Workshop: “From Big Data to Equitable Health” (Princeton Precision Health)

May 12

“Radicalism, Politics and Poetics in Early Modern Europe: A Conference in Honor of Nigel Smith” (English)

May 23

“Fear and Loathing in the Movies” (Philosophy)

June 5

“Rethinking Just War in the 21st Century: A Graduate Student Conference” (Politics)

Co-sponsored Series

Angelus Novus Collaborative at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

Athena in Action Conference (Rutgers University)

Caribbean Studies Speakers Series (Interdisciplinary)

Compass (Philosophy)

Ecotheories Colloquium (English)

Interdepartmental Program in Classical Philosophy (Philosophy)

Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy (Philosophy)

Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series (Center for Collaborative History)

Social Criticism and Political Thought (Politics)

Deepening Understanding

UCHV Special Events

Fall 2022

October 24

“Governing the Algorithmic City”

Seth Lazar (Australian National University)

November 3

“Pedagogy and Publishing: Writing as a Graduate Student”

Organized by Alison McQueen

December 2–3

“Food, Ethics, Politics: The View from 2022”

Food, Ethics, X is organized by Andrew Chignell, Tania Lombrozo, and Peter Singer.

December 1

“BREXIT From a Global Perspective: How the UK Withdrawal From the EU Affected Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe and Transatlantic Relations”

Organized by Federico Fabbrini

December 6

“Exile and Justice: A Panel Discussion”

Organized by Joseph Chan, Desmond Jagmohan, Evgeny Roshchin, and Arseniy

Kumankov

Spring 2023

March 25

Workshop on Value Theory

Organized by Leif Wenar

April 14

Book Symposium on Elvira Basevich’s “A Duboisian Democracy: On Method, Practice, and Revolution”

April 27

“How Princeton Research Becomes a Film and a Vault at the Venice Biennale”

Presented by Sigrid Adrianssens and Erika Kiss

Values and Public Life student Caroline Subbiah ’23 reads an excerpt of writing by Francisco Wills, who is currently incarcerated.

Annual Review 2022–23

Award-winning filmmaker Gyula Gazdag leads a week-long intensive workshop with Film Forum and UCHV Research Film Studio director, Erika Kiss.

Teaching and Learning

Program in Values and Public Life

• Under the direction of Sandra Bermann, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, professor of comparative literature, and clerk of the faculty, 18 seniors graduated with a certificate in Values and Public Life (VPL).

• The UCHV admitted 18 rising juniors into the newly approved VPL minor program, joining 14 rising seniors who are pursuing the VPL certificate.

• In addition to completing the program’s curricular requirements, VPL students enjoyed discussions over lunch with the program director.

• During the academic year, Bermann moderated a panel, “Incorporating a Normative Component Into Your Thesis Prospectus—And Your Thesis,” for VPL juniors and juniors from any discipline. Participants included Anna Stilz and VPL seniors Mayu Takeuchi and Travis York. At the VPL Student Conference, seniors presented their thesis projects, and juniors pitched project ideas. Presenters included Preeti Chemiti, Adam Hoffman, Mayu Takeuchi, Mirabella Smith, and Joshua Rogers. VPL students were invited to be a part of the UCHV’s intellectual community and attended special Center events and dinners.

• VPL seniors attended Senior Thesis Workshops led by three of UCHV’s postdoctoral fellows: Kathryn Joyce, David Kinney, and Gabriel Mares. In addition, UCHV postdoc Thalia Vrantsidis led two workshops for VPL certificate students, cognitive science certificate students, and other interested juniors and seniors: “From Idea to Research Question: Developing and Refining Your Thesis Topic” and “Writing Your Thesis: A Crash Course in Scientific Writing.”

• VPL students participated in a mentorship program and were paired with UCHV’s Graduate Prize Fellows. Participating GPFs served as mentors to guide students toward their future academic and professional goals.

• The VPL Class of 2023 celebrated Class Day with family and the UCHV community, where the graduates’ activities and accomplishments were acknowledged.

Courses and Seminars

Values and Public Life Seminars

A Democratic Philosophy

CHV 367 / POL 475 / PHI 368

Philip Pettit

Is Representative Democracy Failing Here?

CHV 478 / POL 478

Charles Beitz

Media and Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives

POL 474 / CHV 474

Jan-Werner Müller

The Ethics of Eating

CHV 395 / PHI 399 / REL 396

Andrew Chignell

Explaining Values

PHI 380 / CHV 380

Victoria McGeer

First-Year Seminars

Empathy and Perspective-Taking: The Philosophy of Intersubjectivity

Grace E. Helton

Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Imprisoned Minds: Religion and Philosophy from Jail

Mark J. Edwards

Paul L. Miller ’41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism

Thomas P. Kelly

Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Knowing Minds

Harvey Lederman/Diana Tamir

Peter T. Joseph ’72 Freshman Seminar in Human Value

Rethinking Truth and Objectivity in History

Marc Domingo Gygax

Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Teaching and Learning

Tragedy and the Meaning of Life

Rhodri Lewis

Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search

Ellen B. Chances

University Center for Human Values Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Courses

A Democratic Philosophy

CHV 367 / POL 475 / PHI 368

Philip Pettit

Confucian Political Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary

POL 317 / CHV 316

Joseph Chan

Christian Ethics and Modern Society

REL 261 / CHV 261

Eric Gregory

Environmental Film Studies: Research

Film Studio

ECS 389 / CHV 389 / HUM 389 / ENV 389

Erika A. Kiss

Ethics and Economics

ECO 385 / CHV 345

Thomas C. Leonard

Ethics and Public Policy

SPI 370 / POL 308 / CHV 301

Steven Kelts

European Law & Human Rights in Comparative Perspective

CHV 530 / POL 529

Federico Fabbrini

Explaining Values

PHI 380 / CHV 380

Victoria McGeer

Dissertation Seminar

CHV 599

Elizabeth Harman

Greek Ethical Theory

PHI 335 / CHV 335 / HLS 338

Hendrik Lorenz

Global Political Thought

POL 476 / CHV 476

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Legality and the Rule of Law in the State of Emergency

CHV 357 / POL 451

Gábor Mészáros

Media and Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives

POL 474 / CHV 474

Jan-Werner Müller

Introduction to Moral Philosophy

PHI 202 / CHV 202

Joseph C. Moore

Is Representative Democracy Failing Here?

CHV 478 / POL 478

Charles Beitz

Peter Singer’s Ethics: A Critical Assessment

CHV 529 / PHI 541

Peter Singer

Philosophy of Mind: Human Capacities

PHI 535 / POL 504 / CHV 535 / REL 544

Philip Pettit

Racial Justice in Healthcare

CHV 305 / PHI 405

Ian Peebles

Religion and Reason

REL 264 / CHV 264 / PHI 264

Denys Turner

Sociological Theory

SOC 302 / CHV 302

John Robinson

Systematic Ethics

PHI 307 / CHV 311

Michael Smith

The Ethics of Eating

CHV 395 / PHI 399 / REL 396

Andrew Chignell

The Hidden History of Hollywood–Research

Film Studio

CHV 385 / AAS 385 / VIS 385

Erika Kiss

The Just Society

POL 307 / CHV 307

Alan Patten

The Philosophy of Kant: Kant’s Practical Philosophy

PHI 502 / GER 502 / CHV 502 / REL 547

Andrew Chignell and Alexander Englert

Film Forum

The Film Forum convenes at various campus theaters under the direction of Erika Kiss. The screened films are followed by comments from faculty and a discussion. The series, which is open to the public, is supported by a gift from Bert Kerstetter ’66.

Fall 2022 Theme: Love That’s America

September 12

“Freedom Road” (1979)

Ján Kadár

September 19

“Farewell, Amor” (2020)

Ekwa Msangi

September 26

“The Learning Tree” (1969)

Gordon Parks

October 3

“Three Day Pass” (1969)

Melvin Van Peebles

October 10

“Killer of Sheep” (1978)

Charles Burnett

October 31

“Nope” (2022)

Jordan Peele

November 7

“Luce” (2019)

Julius Onah

November 14

“Nightjohn” (1996)

Charles Burnett

November 21

Special Event: “Black Panther II-Wakanda Forever” (2022)

Ryan Coogler

Left to right: panelists Lidal Dror, Nafeesah A. Goldsmith, Christia Mercer, and Reginald Dwayne Betts discuss the legal and ethical questions embedded in the play, “Felon, An American Washi Tale”.

Teaching and Learning

November 28

“Daughters of the Dust” (1991)

Julie Dash

Spring 2023

February 22

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)

Stanley Kubrick

March 13–20

Research Film Studio Spring Break Event

“Collective Filmmaking with Gyula Gazdag”

March 20

“Research and Filmmaking: A Conversation with Gyula Gazdag and Erika Kiss”

April 25

“Reporting the First Draft of History: How to Write/Film the War in Ukraine”

April 27

“How Princeton Research Becomes a Film and a Vault at the Venice Biennale”

Presented by Sigrid Adrianssens and Erika A. Kiss

May 20–November 26

Angelus Novus Exhibition

Architecture Biennale 2023

Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

Human Values Forum

With support from Bert Kertstetter ’66, the Human Values Forum provides an opportunity for undergraduates, faculty members, graduate students, and faculty visitors to meet in an informal setting to discuss current and enduring questions concerning ethics and human values.

Fall 2022

September 12

“Updating ‘Animal Liberation:’ What Has Changed?”

Peter Singer

September 19

“Is There a Moral Right to Vote?”

Joseph Chan

September 26

“Under Attack? Academic Freedom in Higher Education”

Keith Whittington

October 3

“Not a Baby: Ideas About the Fetus in Post-Roe America”

Elizabeth Armstrong

October 10

“Ukraine and Ethics During War”

Jeff McMahan

Sarah McGrath teaches a class on the lawn in front of Wooten Hall.

October 24

“At the Margins of Moral Personhood”

Eva Kittay

October 31

“The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Through the Lens of Political Philosophy and Ethics”

Arseniy Kumankov

November 7

“Getting China Wrong”

Aaron Friedberg

November 14

“Germline Genome Editing and Human Values”

Shirley Tilghman

November 21

“The Paradox of Social Good”

Arvind Narayanan

November 28

“Race: What Is It? Why Does It Matter?”

Ian Peebles

Spring 2023

January 30

“A Friendly Universe in a Secular Age”

R.J. Snell

February 6

“The Materialities of Law in the Nineteenth Century and the Limits of Law Today”

Laura Edwards

February 16

“Discretion: The Selective Use of Power by Those who Enforce Rules”

Barry Lam

February 20

“Is There a Utilitarian Argument for Eating More Beef?”

Andrew Chignell

February 27

“Identity Museums and Their Evolution”

Edward Rothstein

March 20

“A Duboisian Theory of Justice”

Elvira Basevich

March 27

“Hungary After the ‘Rule of Law Revolution’”

Gábor Mészáros

April 3

“A Discussion with Joyce Carol Oates”

Joyce Carol Oates

April 10

“Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies”

Alison McQueen

April 17

“Utilitarianism and the Problem of Uncertainty in an Algorithmic World”

Steven Kelts

April 26

“A World of Your Making: How to Understand and Respond to a Rapidly Changing World”

Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.

Student Prizes and Grants

Senior Thesis Prize

Each year, the Center awards prizes to the senior theses that make an outstanding contribution to the study of human values. Nominations for the prize are made by departments across the University.

“The Republic of Drunkards: The Political Pathogenesis of Addiction and Development of the Temperance Philosophy in America, From the Plymouth Colony to 1850”

Abigail Anthony, Politics

“Animal Exploitation and the Capitalist Growth Drive: Towards an Ecosocialist Philosophy” Stav Bejerano, Philosophy

“‘Te Abre un Mundo’ / ‘A World Opens to You’: In and Out of the Clinical Gaze in Tijuana Migrant Healthcare”

Sarah Brown, Anthropology

Teaching and Learning

Short Movie Prize

Sponsored by the UCHV, this award is given to the undergraduate who produces the best short film.

Winner: “Gathering,” by Ethan Luk ’24

Honorable Mention: “wish u a good life,” by Lola Constantino ’23

Honorable Mention: “Lessons in Exile,” by Azi Jones ’25

Graduate Student Merit Awards

The UCHV offers prizes to help attract graduate students to Princeton whose work explicitly focuses on ethics, political theory, and human values. In spring 2023, the following incoming students were awarded these grants:

Daisy Couture, Anthropology

Nikitha Rao Taniparti, Anthropology

Andrea Comair, Architecture

Sergio Perdiguer Torralba, Architecture

Nectar Knuckles, Art and Archaeology

Lana Glozic, Classics

William Trlak, Comparative Literature

Angela Cai, English

Tammuz Frankl, English

Davis Mendez, English

Clara Soucanh, French and Italian

Alexander Beatty, German

Tirzah Anderson, History

Indy Davis, History

Christopher Bottomly, Philosophy

Jennifer Minjarez, Philosophy

David North, Philosophy

Mollie Eisner, Politics

Cole Smith, Politics

Gulin Ustabas, Politics

Simon Christian Vöhringer, Politics

Wanzhen Zhou, Politics

Yueman Guo, Religion

Melissa Lane with VPL student Mayu Takeuchi on Class Day.

Political Philosophy Research and Travel Grants

The Center, along with the Program in Political Philosophy, offers Political Philosophy Research and Travel grants. The grants are supported by a fund established by Amy Gutmann, former provost of the University and founding director of UCHV. The following students received grants:

Charlie Argon, History

Nicholas Barone, History

Colin Bradley, Philosophy

Utku Cansu, Politics

Atticus Carnell, Politics

Jon Catlin, History and Humanities

Peter Giraudo, Politics

Hannah Hartt, History

Usman Khan, Religion

Hochan (Sonny) Kim, Politics

Thomas Lambert, Philosophy

Gabriel Levine, Politics

Nura Sophia Liepsner, Religion

Michael Mandelkorn, History

Camilo Martinez, Philosophy

Faiza Masood, Religion

Linda McNulty, Classics

Gaby Nair, Politics

Joseph Puchner, History

Zainab Rashid, Religion

Max Ridge, Politics

Margaret Shea, Philosophy

Chapman Sklar, Religion

Neel Thakker, History

Ophelia Vedder, Politics

Darius Weil, Politics

Jiseob Yoon, Politics

Sandra Bermann, director of the Program in Values and Public Life, delivers Class Day remarks.

Supporting Research

Supporting Research

The UCHV seeks to advance original scholarship relating to human values in a number of ways, including sponsoring visiting faculty fellowships, visiting professorships for distinguished teaching, postdoctoral research appointments, and dissertation-stage fellowships for outstanding Princeton graduate students. The research reports presented in this section illustrate the reach and quality of the work carried out under the Center’s auspices.

A main feature of the visiting fellows program is a regular lunch seminar at which the Center’s visitors, together with its faculty members, present their work to an audience of peers. The graduate fellows meet regularly during their own research seminar and for other professional development opportunities, which are also provided to the postdoctoral research associates. As the research reports attest, the systematic criticism and discussion of work in progress is among the principal benefits of affiliation with the Center.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching

This professorship is part of the 250th Anniversary Visiting Professorships for Distinguished Teaching (VPDT) program. Each VPDT teaches an undergraduate course and engages in other activities aimed at improving teaching at Princeton.

Alison McQueen (2022-23 academic year)

My time at the UCHV has been busy and productive. In the fall semester, I wrote a chapter on Niccolò Machiavelli and popular rule for inclusion in the “Cambridge History of Democracy” and continued to make progress on a book manuscript, “Absolving God,” about Thomas Hobbes’ treatment of religion. I presented my research at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and the University of Richmond. I also did a recorded interview with Melissa Lane about the history of political thought for use in her classes and led a session with graduate students from the Department of Politics on

publishing and pedagogy. In the spring semester, I completed the first draft chapter of my third book manuscript, which will focus on treason in the history of political thought. I presented this work at the LSR seminar in May and received extremely helpful feedback. I wrote a short piece on working with digital archives, which is forthcoming in a symposium on political theory and archives in the journal PS: Political Science. I also participated in a book launch workshop for Greg Conti’s edited volume of A.V. Dicey’s “Writings on Democracy and the Referendum” (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and participated as a guest in Eric Gregory’s graduate seminar, “Studies in Religion and Philosophy.” Finally, I taught

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a spring semester course, “Modern Political Theory,” which covered the history of Western political thought from 1500 to 1850. The terrific students at Princeton made the course a memorable and rewarding experience!

political thought. At the Center I participated as a discussant for two papers, by Farrah Ahmed on fraternity and by Alison McQueen on treason in 17th-century thought. During this visit to the Center, I was also able to present at several panels in Princeton, including a panel on World Order and a panel on democracy and inequality at PIIRS. In addition, I made considerable progress on a manuscript on political resentment.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Spring 2023)

As a Laurence S Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, I had the privilege of teaching two classes. “An Introduction to Political Theory” focused on the theme of the relationship between truth and politics. “Global Political Thought in the Twentieth Century” examined the main theoretical fault lines in Indian, African, Islamic, and Chinese political thought in the 20th century. The themes of the course were followed up in several seminars, including an LSR seminar on Iqbal and Nietzsche. This course also contributed to thinking about methods in comparative political thought, and participating in a discussion on this theme for Jan-Werner Müller’s class on methods in political thought. I used the lectures and themes of this course to explore materials for a possible book project on global

These fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in devoting a year at Princeton to writing about ethics and human values, discussing their work in a fellows’ seminar, and participating in seminar activities.

secularism benefitted from UCHV support for a workshop I co-organized on secularism as a value, which drew together a range of scholars working on secularism in diverse contexts. I also completed a draft of a paper on the nature of arbitrariness in the context of the rule of law. In all this work, I was able to draw on the expertise of colleagues at the UCHV, particularly on the use of history and genealogy in normative work, as well as scholars of South Asia at Princeton more generally. The exceptionally high level of collegiality and rigor at the UCHV kept me both intellectually engaged and well-supported in carrying out my research. I remain grateful for having had this opportunity.

Farrah Ahmed

During my time at the UCHV, I was able to make significant progress on the first three chapters of my monograph on secularism as fraternity, and to workshop these chapters, including at the LSR seminar. More generally, my work on

My primary focus was to complete my new monograph, “A Duboisian Democracy.”

During my time as an LSR fellow, I wrote two new chapters from scratch and substantially revised the materials I already had. Happily, my research culminated with a book symposium in the spring, where I received rich comments to guide my final revisions. In addition to

Elvira Basevich

attending the weekly LSR seminar, I participated in a political theory workshop and a philosophy of race reading group at the Center. I also had several additional opportunities to share and receive detailed feedback on my work from the UCHV community, including at a democratic theory workshop run by Anna Stilz, at Andrew Chignell’s seminar on Kant’s practical philosophy, and at the UCHV undergraduate forum. I also finalized for publication two journal articles on Kant and race unrelated to my book project on Du Bois. When I wasn’t writing and chatting about philosophy, I trained for a half-marathon, which I successfully completed in the spring at Asbury Park.

Desmond Jagmohan

Over the year, I was able to accomplish several things. First, and most importantly, I made significant progress toward completing my book, “Dark Virtues: Booker T. Washington’s Tragic Realism” (Princeton University Press, expected 2024). The book will be done this fall. Second, I wrote two book chapters for edited volumes: “Popular Republicanism and Racial

Exclusion: Martin Delany on the Status of Free Blacks in the Antebellum North” in “The Oxford Handbook of Republican Theory,” edited by Frank Lovett and Mortimer Sellars (Oxford University Press, 2024) and “From Proxy to Effigy: The Idea of John Locke in Cold War Liberalism,” in “Reassessment of Locke’s Political Thought,” edited by Teresa Bejan and Felix Waldmann (Oxford University Press, 2024). Third, I wrote a forthcoming journal article: “Three Traditions of African American Political Thought: Realism, Reformism, Nationalism,” which will appear in the Annual Review of Political Science in 2024. Fourth, I made progress on research for my second book, “Slavery and Subversion.” Being on the East Coast allowed for several archival trips. Also, along with my colleague Gabe Lenz and a research assistant— at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley—I continued to digitize and use automated text analysis to evaluate over 6,000 slave interviews from the WPA and other sources and nearly 100 slave narratives to provide a broader and deeper historical context for how enslaved people understood their experience in the long shadow of slavery.

I am deeply grateful to the University Center for Human Values and for the LSR fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year, and not only because of the publications and progress toward finishing my book. But also, for having a year in the company of my former colleagues and friends. There

is no replacement for rigorous and encouraging conversation and commentary, the impact of which can never be fully summed up or completely nailed down. The Center’s enduring emphasis on rigorous pursuit, refinement, and deepening of normative inquiry makes it a distinctly important place in American intellectual and public life. Like everyone else that has spent time at the Center, I leave a better thinker than when I arrived. Finally, I am profoundly grateful for the generosity and support of Melissa Lane, Regin Davis, and the faculty and staff of the UCHV.

Stuart Middleton

This fellowship at the UCHV has been the best year of my academic career. It has enabled me to bring a long and complex book on “democratic values” in 20th-century Britain and America to the point of completion, and more broadly it has transformed the way I think about that project, and about my work in general, by placing me in daily contact with a community of brilliant and imaginative scholars working at the intersections of political theory, philosophy, law, and history. In addition to the

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regular LSR seminars, I have particularly benefited from participating in the Political Philosophy Colloquium, the superb Political Theory Graduate Research Seminar, and an informal working group established by Melissa Lane for UCHV fellows working on political theory, the meetings of which covered topics from the lawgiver in ancient Greece to the whistleblower in 1970s America. The exchanges in these forums have enabled me to better understand the historical significance of my research and the normative issues it raises, particularly concerning democratic citizenship in “modern” or “mass” societies. The experience and inspiration of this fellowship at the UCHV will shape my work for years to come.

of my whistleblower book. And in the winter, I began writing what I believed to be a chapter on Karen Silkwood, a nuclear technician who blew the whistle on safety practices at her worksite, and later died under mysterious circumstances. After a trip to Boulder to review records of her union, it was clear to me that Silkwood deserved a booklength treatment. “The Making of Karen Silkwood” examines the political and social movements that compelled the living Silkwood to act, and the movements that made her a martyr in death and a symbol for causes unknown to her in life: feminism, environmentalism, government reform, and anti-nuclear advocacy. As in my broader whistleblower project, I contend that Silkwood was defined and redefined not by the singularity of her disclosures, but by political projects that embedded her revelations, her body, and her death in a broader web of meaning.

to my existing research project in standpoint theory. The first, published in JAPA, defends a controversial thesis in standpoint theory which asserts that those who are socially marginalized may be epistemically superior with respect to certain questions. The second, published in Philosophy Compass, offers a critique of objectivity as a tool of political ideology, and provides a feminist treatment of objectivity as a “view from many places” (contra the traditional view of objectivity as a “view from nowhere”).

Sarah Milov

My year as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow was productive and inspiring. I began by plunging headlong into my whistleblower manuscript, availing myself of the ACLU papers at Princeton and the records of anti-nuclear organizations at the Swarthmore Peace Collection. I spent the fall semester writing two chapters

Briana Toole

The LSR fellowship afforded me the time both to finish old projects and to make headway on new work. During this year, I published two articles related

With these completed, I began work on a new project in political philosophy. This project examines responses to social/political resistance movements, and how these responses function to position elites as the arbiter of legitimate resistance. During the academic year, I completed the first chapter, which I presented to the wonderful and intellectually stimulating community of LSR fellows. Their insights were invaluable, and the additional UCHV reading group that I was a member of (along with several of the other LSR fellows and members of the UCHV community) provided the additional motivation I needed to complete the second and third chapters of the book.

Beyond academic work, I strove to be an active member of the Princeton community. I sat on a panel on diversity and inclusion in teaching, I offered comments on another LSR fellow’s work, I participated in reading and working groups, and I organized a three-day

writing retreat for UCHV visitors. I am grateful for the time the LSR fellowship provided me to explore new areas of research, to connect with and learn from other scholars, and, importantly, to rest and recover from a years-long pandemic!

the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy. At Princeton, in addition to attending various colloquia, I served as a faculty mentor at Compass, an undergraduate philosophy workshop, and as a panelist for a discussion on diversity and inclusion in teaching.

May I published a new answer to this ancient question—that the good is unity: unity with the world, with each other, and within ourselves.

I also finished a paper on justice, provoked by the rise of populism in America and the calcification of its meritocracy. The main idea is that a just society is one in which everyone can have self-respect. The paper is written as Rawls scholarship, but I hope that these ideas might be useful even for anyone curious to see a more hopeful vision for America’s future.

This past academic year I completed two manuscripts as part of a series of articles on reproductive justice and reparations. The first, “Reproductive Justice as Reparative Justice,” will be published in Social Philosophy Today. The second, “Reparations for Reproductive Slavery and Its Afterlives,” will be published as part of a special issue of Critical Philosophy of Race. I also completed two book chapters, “The ART of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices” which will be published in the “Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability” and “Chronic Injustice: Racialized Disablement and the Urgency of the Everyday” which will be published in Disability Justice in Emergency Conditions. I gave a colloquium presentation at Florida International University and presented at

No intellectual community I know is more stimulating than the University Center for Human Values. The collegiality, the conviviality, and the sheer brainpower around the Center make a year here feel like joining a genuine society of minds. To be a fellow in the Center is always to be engaged in the highest-level discussions of the most important philosophical issues of our times— and sometimes of all time. One of the deepest philosophical questions is what is intrinsically good, or good in itself. Aristotle knew the main theoretical alternatives; it may seem a bit of a scandal that philosophers are still debating these theories over two millennia later. With very generous support from the Center, in March I convened a group of top experts for a high-level workshop on “The Good.” In

Of all the wonderful people who made this year at the Center so special I’d like to mention two. Melissa Lane’s inspired and tireless leadership was nothing short of heroic. Every week Melissa made us all feel so alive intellectually and so very welcome socially. And Kim Girman, who I’ve known for almost 25 years now, is still the person I’m happiest to see when arriving at the office. It was a terrific year at the Center, and the University Center for Human Values remains a fantastic place for a philosopher to be.

Desiree Valentine

Leif Wenar

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UCHV Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy

These fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding practitioners, faculty members of any discipline, independent scholars, and lawyers. Fellows contribute to the intellectual life of UCHV and SPIA.

Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics

The Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics supports outstanding scholars studying ethical issues arising from developments in medicine or the biological sciences.

Gábor Mészáros

Federico Fabbrini

During my time at the UCHV, I carried forward my research in the field of European and comparative constitutional law, notably by publishing my fourth monograph “EU Fiscal Capacity: Legal Integration after Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine” (Oxford University Press, 2022). I was also very active in giving talks in the University Center for Human Values, the Law@ Princeton program, and the EU@Princeton program. Moreover, I co-convened an event on Brexit with the UCHV (co-sponsored with the Dublin City University Brexit Institute) and a conference on “Constitutionalism after Covid-19” with the School of Public & International Affairs (co-sponsored with the DCU Law Research Centre).

During my fellowship I made progress on my new book that deals with the rule of law backsliding in the age of a permanent state of exception. At the LSR seminar, I presented my article about the Hungarian government’s misuse of emergency powers, and I also shared my concerns regarding the accelerated autocratic transition in my home country. I participated in the LSR and LEGS seminars and gave presentations at various conferences throughout the academic year. I was selected as a Faculty Advisory Board member within the Princeton Pre-Law Society at Princeton University and was also invited to give a lecture for the Human Values Forum at Prospect House. Thanks to the UCHV I had the opportunity to teach undergraduate students during the spring semester, which was a wonderful experience. Beyond that, I worked on my new book, wrote four articles and several blog posts, and gave a few interviews during my stay at Princeton. I benefited greatly from being a part of the UCHV community and I’m very grateful for this opportunity.

Ian Peebles

My first year as the Shapiro Postdoc in Bioethics has been both formative and productive. Participating in a variety of campus events—e.g., the UCHV Film Forum, the Human Values Forum, the LSR seminars, the DeCamp seminars, a Black Political Thought conference, and the Princeton Precision Health initiative—and teaching a semester-long course on racial justice in healthcare allowed me to engage an intellectually diverse group of scholars, and consequently, sharpen my views and find my voice as an academic. In terms of production, I published a co-authored article in the science journal, Brain Stimulation, with two colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, in which we identify barriers and offer

solutions to improve diversity in neuromodulation research. Additionally, I finalized three manuscripts (all currently under review): one offering a framework for adjudicating morally permissible uses of race-based medicine; the second is a collaborative piece exploring emerging issues at the intersection of national security, artificial intelligence, and human performance enhancement; and, the final one offering a virtue-based account of racism. These manuscripts were largely refined through talks at Princeton—e.g., a DeCamp seminar, the UCHV Race and Philosophy reading group, and the Princeton Precision Health Spring Workshop—and the UCHV’s support to present in other venues—e.g., the World Congress of Bioethics in Basel, Switzerland, the P-METaL Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a Penn State bioethics colloquium.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Science of Morality

The Cognitive Science of Morality Postdoctoral Research Associate program supports promising scholars with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline whose research focuses on understanding social and/or moral cognition and its implications for normative theories.

Judy Kim

I have had a wonderfully enriching first year at the UCHV. My main research interest is in how and why we tell narratives about moral actions (joint work with Molly Crockett). The psychology half of this project involves running empirical studies to understand narrator production and audience perceptions of moral narratives. One project I completed this year shows that competing reputational and informational goals can predict whether narrators tell the truth, lie, or become vague about their moral actions. In an ongoing project, I’m looking at how different power dynamics between narrators and audiences shape the exchange of moral narratives. The second, more philosophical half of my research has involved developing a theory of moral narrative exchange. An important goal of this program is building a community for a new, interdisciplinary study of moral narratives. Being part of Princeton’s UCHV community has been incredibly helpful in this regard. With Molly, I was able to present the theory in front of diverse crowds, including at our LSR seminars and at the Princeton Workshop

in Mind & Epistemology organized by Grace Helton. The feedback we’ve received from others in the UCHV has been invaluable.

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Cognitive Science of Values

The Cognitive Science of Values Postdoctoral Associate program supports promising scholars with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline whose research focuses on understanding social and/or moral cognition and its implications for normative theories.

Emily Foster-Hanson

In my third and final year as a cognitive science of values postdoc, I made substantial progress on both my professional and research goals. Most importantly, I will begin a tenure track faculty position as assistant professor of psychology at Swarthmore College this summer! I am very grateful for the feedback I received on my practice job talk in the fall of 2022. I also made substantial progress towards my research goals. The project I started

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(with Tania Lombrozo) in the first year of my position was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cognitive Psychology. A paper on a related project (also with Tania Lombrozo) was published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, and I presented this work at two conferences in 2022 (the Cognitive Science Society and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology) and one conference in January 2023 (the Society for Personality and Social Psychology); a longer manuscript will be submitted for publication this summer. I also published two additional peer-reviewed, co-authored journal articles based on work from my dissertation, as well as a new collaborative paper in Nature Reviews Psychology; I have three additional papers under review. Finally, I was awarded an unrestricted gift from Google to begin a new line of work on pedagogical ethics in technology development, for which I am the principal investigator; this project has yielded a theoretical paper that will be submitted for publication this summer, as well as a longitudinal empirical evaluation of a course on technology ethics (SPIA 365) that will result in a second empirical publication.

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to engage with the UCHV community over the past three years. My scholarly work has benefited immensely, and I look forward to continuing to nurture the personal and professional

relationships I have formed with UCHV faculty, fellows, and postdocs as I transition into the next phase of my career.

In August 2022, I submitted my major research output from the previous year, a paper entitled “Building Compressed Causal Models of the World” (co-authored with Tania Lombrozo), to Psychological Review. This received a reject and resubmit verdict in December, and we are about to resubmit after a major revision. A second co-authored paper with Tania Lombrozo, “Tell Me Your (Cognitive) Budget and I’ll Tell You What You Value: Evidential Relationships

Between Granularity, Agential Values, and Data in Generic Causal Claims about the Social World,” has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society’s annual conference. A journal version will also be submitted soon. My paper with the physicist David Wolpert, “A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science,” underwent a significant revision and has been submitted to the Journal of Philosophical Logic. A solo-authored paper entitled “Causal History, Statistical

Relevance, and Explanatory Power” was accepted by the journal Philosophy of Science. All of these papers have been presented in meetings of the Lombrozo Lab or discussed frequently with UCHV and Princeton colleagues. As a researcher, I have benefitted enormously from being part of this community, and I have many more projects in the pipeline that are more directly inspired by my time as a member of the UCHV community. I am looking forward to taking up a position as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Yale University in August.

Thalia Vrantsidis

In my second year here, I continued the line of research started in my first year at the UCHV, examining the psychology and normativity of explanations—in particular, studying why we often prefer simpler explanations over more complex ones. One idea I have explored in this work is that preferences for simplicity often serve as heuristics to pick out more probable explanations. My current project focuses on how flexible these preferences are, and how well they track objective probabilities.

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In doing so, I have shed light on some reasons people are often biased to oversimplify their explanations. I am in the process of submitting this work for publication, and am presenting this line of work at several conferences, including those of the Cognitive Science Society and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. While at the UCHV, I also valued the opportunity to support the undergraduate thesis students through leading thesis writing workshops, which allowed me to share my understanding of the logical and psychological principles underlying clear, compelling writing. Being at the UCHV and attending the various seminars here has also given me the chance to learn from and connect with colleagues in other disciplines. One highlight was the Workshop on Value Theory, which allowed me to bridge my interests in the psychology of fundamental human goods with the rich philosophical literature in this area. In addition, I have appreciated the support and camaraderie of the UCHV community in navigating the transition to my next career stage, and I am excited to start a tenure track psychology position this fall at Mississippi State University.

Postdoctoral Research

Center and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The fellowship supports highly promising scholars trained in moral and political philosophy, political theory, normative economics, and related areas to develop a research agenda in the ethical dimensions of public policy.

“Characterizing Relationships Among Equals” and “Evaluating Evidence-based Education as a Strategy for Narrowing Achievement Gaps.” As a result, I was invited to join the PPE Society’s working group on ethics and public policy. I also presented work on the disvalue of social status hierarchies at the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division Meeting as part of an invited symposium. I look forward to beginning a job as the director of the Civil Discourse Program at Ohio State University’s Center for Ethics and Human Values. I am grateful for the UCHV’s rich programming and generous support, which have prepared me for this new role.

Kathryn Joyce

Postdoctoral Research Associates in Philosophy and Religion

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in Values and Public Policy

The Values and Public Policy

Postdoctoral Research

Associate program is a joint endeavor of the University

This year I completed my project on ethical dimensions of evidence-based policy/practice and continued my research on social equality. I published three articles and am working on revising and resubmitting two others. “Prioritizing Improvement Among Disadvantaged Students in Principle and in Practice” was published in Philosophical Inquiry in Education and “Revisiting the Role of Values in Evidence-based Education” was published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education. “Assessing Evidence of Effectiveness for Purposes of Effective Altruism” is forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. In the fall I presented two papers at the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society’s Annual Meeting:

The postdoctoral position in the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) supports highly promising scholars who are trained in the philosophy of religion, the religious thought of some historical period or culture, theories, and methods in the study of religion, or related areas, in developing a research agenda in philosophy of religion broadly construed. This position is a joint endeavor of the University Center, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Religion.

sad to be leaving the UCHV behind, but very excited to be starting as a stipendiary visitor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study in the fall.

Alexander Englert

I continue to work on research projects that involve Kant and German idealism. I currently have a book manuscript under review with Oxford University Press that explores Kant’s theory of ideals. I also published an article on the origin of the concept of worldview in Kant and Fichte’s thought, as well as finished an entry with Andrew Chignell, “Kant on the Highest Good and Moral Arguments,” which will appear in the forthcoming volume, “The Oxford Handbook for Kant.” I have a number of articles under review or in resubmission dealing with topics that range from Kant’s arguments for immortality and Hegel’s theory of life. In the fall, I co-taught the graduate seminar, “Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” with Andrew Chignell. I was also very excited this semester to co-organize a workshop in comparative philosophy with Jonathan Gold from the Department of Religion. Titled “Mind and Representation: Approaches from German Idealist and Buddhist Philosophies,” we brought together scholars of both traditions to explore themes of consciousness, liberation, and emptiness. I am

Elizabeth Li

It has been a wonderful final year as a postdoc in the UCHV. I started out the academic year presenting at the annual Kierkegaard Conference in Copenhagen. I was also invited to present at the American Philosophical Association Pacific on a panel on “Kierkegaard, Selfhood and Romantic Love.” In addition to finishing a number of articles on various aspects of Kierkegaard’s authorship, which are currently under review, I co-wrote a chapter on hope in Kierkegaard’s “Either-Or” with 3PR’s director Andrew Chignell for a new Cambridge commentary.

Working with Andrew, Lara Buchak and Alexander Englert on 3PR—its weekly workshops and spring conference on “Philosophy, Religion and Existential Commitment”—has been a distinct pleasure. I look forward to seeing how 3PR will develop and grow in the coming years. I also greatly enjoyed the UCHV’s many talks

and events. Particular highlights include Fintan O’Toole’s Tanner Lectures, Ian Peebles’ DeCamp Bioethics Seminar talk, and the panel on “Brexit from a Global Perspective.” I was offered a position as assistant professor in ethics and philosophy of religion at the University of Copenhagen, which I began already in February. Sadly, this meant leaving Princeton early, but I will remain forever grateful for my time in the UCHV and for all the wonderful people I have been so fortunate to meet there.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellows

These fellowships, made possible by a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller ’32, are awarded to Princeton graduate students with distinguished academic records who show great promise of contributing to scholarship and teaching about ethics and human values. Fellows participate in an interdisciplinary research seminar throughout the year. In the 2022–23 academic year, the seminar was convened by Elizabeth Harman, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values.

I am very grateful to have spent the last year as a Graduate Prize Fellow with the UCHV. During the year I made progress on my dissertation, which analyzes the changing composition of landlords in four metro areas and the implications of these changes for renters. I presented my second chapter, which looks at the top evictors in each area, showing that a small number of landowners exercise a large influence over residential stability, and I benefited considerably from my peers’ and Professor Harman’s feedback. I also learned a lot from watching the other members of the seminar present their work, which represents a diverse, interdisciplinary set of questions. I also presented work from my dissertation at the Urban Affairs Association and Population Association of America conferences, and I submitted one article to an academic journal. I appreciate the opportunity that the fellowship has been and want to thank Professor Harman, the other graduate student fellows, and all of the members of the UCHV for making this possible.

This past year I have managed to make some considerable progress on my dissertation thanks to the fellowship support. I completed two additional chapters for my dissertation as well as the introduction. I have also begun researching for my next chapter. Additionally, I have prepared a presentation at an Islamic law conference in Istanbul this summer that is based on one of the chapters I wrote this past year. The seminar has also provided me the opportunity to work on communicating my research material to non-specialists in my field so that I can relate my work to a broader audience. I also dipped my toes into the job market by applying to a few jobs (unsuccessfully), which provided a chance to work on my application materials and prepare myself for applying in earnest next year.

I had an immensely rewarding year thanks to the UCHV’s support. My dissertation examines neglected intellectual possibilities for U.S. environmental law in the 1960s and 1970s. The UCHV funding allowed me to examine archival documents held in three cities. With these materials, I wrote dissertation chapters on an oft-forgotten episode in antitrust history involving automobile pollution and on a philosophical contest for the future of environmental regulation. I also digitized documents that will figure into future research. In addition to working on my dissertation, I completed an article that was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Law and Equality. That piece considers the proper place of political (as distinct from merely economic) considerations in federal regulation. And I drafted a working paper on early environmental lawyers’ responses to worries about overpopulation, which I hope to revise for possible publication soon. It was a privilege to be able to discuss my work with the other Graduate Prize Fellows, to learn about their own projects, and to attend faculty presentations at

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Rami Koujah

Gabriel Levine

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the LSR seminar. I am grateful to Liz Harman, to the UCHV staff, and to the UCHV as a whole for making possible this rare year of free intellectual exploration.

intersection of Greek religion and political power in a paper that I delivered at the Program in the Ancient World’s annual workshop. This paper contributed to scholarship on 6th century Greek tyrannies by demonstrating tyrants’ persistent and nuanced use of popular religious belief to acquire political power. I have no doubt that the many UCHV lectures and workshops I attended, as well as conversations with members of the UCHV community, have enriched my work this year and will continue to impact my future thinking and writing.

My fellowship year in the University Center for Human Values has been spent elbowdeep in research for my dissertation, which makes the case for understanding Homeric poetry as religious poetry that shaped non-elite theological views in archaic and classical Athens. I completed two chapters of my dissertation and began a third. These chapters assess Homer’s depictions of religious life; contrast these depictions to historical realities; and demonstrate that philosophers’ critiques of Homeric poetry are reactions against its religious authority. I had the opportunity to present this work in many formats at Princeton and elsewhere. A paper that I developed from one dissertation chapter was accepted to the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest’s Annual Meeting, and I presented a segment of my dissertation’s monograph project in the GPF seminar. I continued to explore the

Mary Nickel

I have for many years relished UCHV-sponsored programs, which bring brilliant notables to Princeton to share their research. During this year as a Graduate Prize Fellow, however, I have also learned the value of the relationships that the UCHV facilitates among leading thinkers in the study of human values over meals and in informal workshops. It’s these relationships, as much as the pioneering ideas that they give rise to, that make the Center so exceptional. As a Graduate Prize Fellow, I have also had the pleasure of

cultivating personal relationships with visiting faculty; with resident faculty, including our graduate mentor, Liz Harman; and with other fellows in my cohort. With their advisement and support, I published two articles, presented five papers at four conferences, finished my dissertation, and secured a postdoctoral fellowship in the coming year. My dissertation, which focuses on pregnancy and motherhood as a lens for thinking about human agency, greatly benefited from the care that my UCHV mentors and colleagues offered it. I am grateful for these relationships, and expect them to endure for many years to come.

Elliot Salinger

As a Graduate Prize Fellow this year, I was able to make substantial progress on my dissertation, which concerns three related problems in moral theory: the independence of metaethics from normative ethics, the objectivity of morals, and the nature of moral disagreement. I argue that the concepts of independence, objectivity, and disagreement should all be understood by appealing to the notion of subject matter; and that

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so doing can help defend anti-realist views in metaethics against standard objections. In the fall, I substantially revised the dissertation’s first chapter, “Expressivism and Moral Independence,” which has since been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In the spring, I completed a draft of the dissertation’s second chapter, “Moral Objectivity as Moral Aboutness,” and presented a version of this in the GPF dissertation seminar. Questions from the other GPFs identified places where the argument could be strengthened and clarified. They also helped me to sharpen the argument of the dissertation’s third chapter, “Genuine Disagreement.” The presentation skills I learned and practiced in the dissertation seminar served me well in presenting the third chapter at a graduate conference at York University in April, and I am sure they will serve me well in presenting the second chapter at a conference in Frankfurt this June.

Finally, I’d like to thank Liz Harman and the UCHV staff— including Dawn Disette and Jane Peters—for all their help and support this year.

Yoav Schafer

My time as a Graduate Prize Fellow has been both rewarding and productive, and I am deeply grateful to the UCHV for supporting my academic research and writing over the past academic year. I managed to make substantial progress on my dissertation, which explores Salomon Maimon’s interpretation of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides (after whom Maimon named himself). An important early follower and critic of Kantian philosophy, Maimon sought to cast the medieval philosopher in the mold of a Kantian. My dissertation aims to provide the first comprehensive analysis of Maimon’s interpretation of Maimonides in both his German and Hebrew writings, demonstrating how he relied on Maimonides’ authority to introduce core tenets of Kantian philosophy into modern Jewish thought. I am especially grateful for having had the opportunity to present a chapter of my dissertation at the GPF seminar—a version of which is now under review at a philosophy journal—and for the helpful feedback I received from both my colleagues and Liz Harman.

Beyond making progress on my dissertation, I learned a great deal from my interactions with the other Graduate Prize Fellows and from the broader UCHV community. Given that my work sits at the intersection of multiple fields of inquiry (including religious studies, philosophy, and intellectual history), it was especially helpful to engage with scholars representing a range of disciplinary backgrounds and scholarly approaches. Being a Graduate Prize Fellow has helped me to become a better scholar and colleague, and I have no doubt that my experience over this year will continue to shape my academic career well into the future.

Margaret Shea

I spent my year as a UCHV Graduate Prize Fellow working on my dissertation, which probes the tension between two, quite disparate roles that moral judgments—claims about what ‘ought’ to be done— play in our lives. On the one hand, these judgments mark out ideals, telling us what it would be best for us to do. On the other, they provide practical guidance: they tell us,

imperfect, non-ideal people, what to do, both individually and collectively. These idealizing and non-idealizing facets of morality come into conflict. My dissertation explores how our moral obligations can be sensitive to other people’s imperfection and foreseeable moral failures, without getting us off the hook, or turning morality into a rulebook for angels.

A highlight of my time as a fellow was presenting my work on hypocrisy to the UCHV Graduate Prize Fellows seminar. The feedback I received was tremendously helpful: the diverse disciplinary perspectives of the audience members helped me see my paper with a fresh pair of eyes. I presented it at the 2023 Workshop in Normative Ethics in Tucson, Arizona—a trip which the UCHV generously sponsored—and it is expected to appear (pending peer-review) in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. During my time as a GPF, I also presented a paper on plan-expressivism at the 2022 Madison Metaethics Workshop, which is forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and a co-authored paper on joint obligations (judgments about what you and I together ought to do) at the 2023 Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop, which is expected to appear (pending peer-review) in a special issue of Philosophical Studies.

Ophelia Vedder

I am grateful to the UCHV for providing me with a year of support and for creating and fostering the GPF community. Learning about my colleagues’ research has been a true pleasure and was one of the highlights of this past year. In addition, the fellowship provided the ideal context for making progress on my dissertation. Over the course of the year, I have worked on drafts of three chapters of my dissertation, currently titled “Gender Abolition.” I presented my second chapter to the GPF seminar, where I received helpful feedback both on the content and on the presentation itself. In addition, I presented my first chapter at the Western Political Science Association Conference, and submitted part of what will be my fifth chapter to a journal. Thanks to the entire UCHV community for a wonderful year.

Jiseob Yoon

With invaluable support from the UCHV, I was able to make significant progress on my dissertation, which is tentatively titled “The Role of Law in Plato’s Cities.” Presenting one of the chapters at the GPF seminar, from which I received extremely helpful feedback from the interdisciplinary GPF community, helped me improve the chapter substantially and revise it as a paper for publication. The paper is on the role of law in the ideal city of Plato’s Statesman, and I argue that law, in addition to knowledge of the statesman, is a necessary part of the statesman’s rule in the ideal city. It was presented at the Comparative Political Theory Conference, “The Art of Ruling: Ancient Conceptions of Leadership in a Global Context,” and will be presented at the 2023 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Participating and attending GPF seminars and postdoc talks led by Elizabeth Harman was exceptionally helpful in developing ways to deliver effective academic presentations, which equipped me for giving the talks on my paper on the Statesman and the guest lecture at Hong Kong University on the topic

of Athenian democracy. I am deeply grateful to Professor Harman for her professional guidance, and to Jane Peters, Dawn Disette, Andrew Perhac, and Kim Murray for their support in multiple ways over the past year.

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University. I had two articles published: “How Should Liberal Democratic Governments Treat Conscientious Disobedience as a Response to State Injustice?: A Proposal” in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement and “Is Democracy Coming to Knock on China’s Door? A Reply to Jiwei Ci’s Democracy in China” in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. I extend my deepest gratitude to the UCHV family for graciously hosting me during my three visits from 2019 to 2022. Their remarkable collegiality and unwavering support have left an indelible mark on my experience. Especially memorable were the truly stimulating intellectual exchanges during the lunches and tea times.

Joseph Chan, Global Scholar and Visiting Professor

I had the great pleasure of undertaking my third and last visit as a global scholar and visiting professor in the fall semester. I immensely enjoyed the beautiful campus throughout the fall season. I continued research on social equality and the ethics of resistance. In addition to teaching an undergraduate course, “Confucian Political Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary,” I gave talks at the Human Values Forum, the LSR seminars, and a forum on “Exile and Justice” organized by the UCHV. Also, I gave invited lectures at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, California State University-Chico, the University of British Columbia, and Duke

Evgeny Roshchin, Research Scholar

I found myself in an unusual situation this academic year as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Although it is impossible to distance oneself from the context of the ongoing war, at the UCHV I felt like I managed to resume my academic work. I was a participant of the round table “Exile and Justice” hosted

by the UCHV and organized by Desmond Jagmohan and Melissa Lane. This round table inspired me to write a paper on “Exit and Voice,” which is now under review in an American political science journal. I completed work on a project on self-censorship in Russian academia, which I presented at the LSR seminar and a panel on academic freedom at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. This year I also had the chance to write a paper on a genealogy of “international community” which I presented at the annual conference of the International Studies Association in Montreal. Apart from this, I presented my work at the North East Slavic, East European & Eurasian conference at New York University, at a conference “Life in the Face of War” organized by Bard College and Columbia, and at an online conference of the exiled Sakharov Center. The panel I organized on “Voice” was accepted into an upcoming American Political Science Association conference. I was privileged to discuss my book on friendship as part of podcast series “Voices,” hosted by European ISA.

Greg Yudin, Visiting Scholar

Thanks to the UCHV, I found my way to make this year productive despite everything. On the academic side, I published a paper on the politics of post-truth in the Russian Sociological Review, offering an analysis of the propaganda machine built by the Russian state. As a public intellectual, I spent significant time explaining the origins of the invasion of Ukraine and the mechanics of Russian politics to the foreign audience in the media. I also authored a piece for the Journal of Democracy explaining how to read properly the data of public opinion polling in Russia. Another paper appeared in Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, arguing that the extreme version of neoliberalism built in Russia made the war all but inevitable. I benefited immensely from the support at the UCHV and the guidance from Kim Lane Scheppele in particular. I am grateful to the UCHV for an interesting discussion of my paper on plebiscitarianism: it really helped to improve it and make it ready for submission. In these difficult days, a chance to step back and look

at the dramatic events from a distance is a unique opportunity to build a better vision for the future.

Faculty Research Grants

In the 2022-23 academic year, a joint committee of the School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values sponsored a program of grants for Princeton faculty, postdoctoral research associates, and graduate students for support of programmatic activities concerning law and legal studies, broadly construed.

The following grants were awarded as part of this program:

Book launch for “Albert Venn Dicey: Writings on Democracy and the Referendum”

Gregory Conti, Politics

In collaboration with “Felon: An American Washi Tale” LCA “call to action” and community social event in collaboration with SPEAR (Student for Prison Education, Abolition and Reform) and PTI (The Prison Teaching Initiative).

Jane Cox, Lewis Center for the Arts

“Long-term Effects of Criminal Justice System Contact”

Jing Wu, Ph.D. candidate, Economics

“Constitutionalism after Covid19: Transatlantic Perspectives on Risk and Resilience”

Miguel A. Centeno, Sociology and the School of Public and

International Affairs (SPIA); Kim Lane Scheppele, UCHV, Sociology, and SPIA; Federico Fabbrini, visiting fellow, UCHV

“The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project”

Brian D. Highsmith, visiting fellow, SPIA; Marie-Lou Laprise, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology; Katie Becker, MPA candidate, SPIA

“Responsa: The Origins and Diffusion of a Legal Genre”

Eve Krakowksi, Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies; Dan Sheffield, Near Eastern Studies; Eliav Grossman, Ph.D. candidate, Religion; Jamie

O’Connell, Ph.D. candidate, Near Eastern Studies

“Secularism as a Legal and Political Value: From Critique to Reconstruction”

Nathaniel Mull, lecturer, Princeton Writing Program; Farrah Ahmed, visiting fellow, UCHV

People

UCHV’s faculty and visitors gather at the start of the academic year.

Faculty

Edward G. Baring

Associate Professor of History and Human Values, on leave 2022-23

Andrew Chignell

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values

Molly J. Crockett

Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values

Christopher L. Eisgruber President of the University; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Early-Career Research

Erika Kiss Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, European Cultural Studies, and Human Values

Melissa Lane Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Stephen J. Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and

the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Committee on Human Values, on leave 2022-23

Victoria McGeer Senior Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values; Lecturer, Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Philip N. Pettit

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values

Kim Lane Scheppele Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Law Engaged Graduate Student Seminars, on leave 2022-23

Peter A. Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Anna B. Stilz

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Executive Committee

Melissa Lane Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Edward G. Baring Associate Professor of History and Human Values, on leave 2022-23

Charles R. Beitz

Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics; Professor of Politics

Sandra L. Bermann Cotsen Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature; Clerk of the Faculty; Director, Program in Values and Public Life

Lara M. Buchak Professor of Philosophy, on leave 2022-23

Philip Pettit attends a UCHV event.

Andrew Chignell

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Religion and the University Center for Human Values

Molly J. Crockett

Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values

Eric S. Gregory Professor of Religion

Elizabeth Harman

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Early-Career Research

Tania Lombrozo

Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology; Director, Program in Cognitive Science

Stephen J. Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Committee on Human Values, on leave 2022-23

Victoria McGeer Senior Research Scholar, University Center for Human Values; Lecturer, Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Jan-Werner Müller

Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics; Director, Program in Political Philosophy

Alan W. Patten

Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Politics; Chair, Department of Politics

Philip N. Pettit

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of the University Center for Human Values

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values; Director of Law

Engaged Graduate Student Seminars, on leave 2022-23

Peter A. Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Michael Smith McCosh Professor of Philosophy

Anna B. Stilz

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Associated Faculty

Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Head of Butler College

Leora F. Batnitzky

Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Religion; Acting Chair, Department of Religion; Director, Program in Judaic Studies

João Biehl

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology

Amy B. Borovoy

Professor of East Asian Studies

Michael A. Celia

Theodora Shelton Pitney

Professor of Environmental Studies; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jonathan D. Cohen

Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Alin I. Coman

Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Gregory A. Conti

Assistant Professor of Politics; Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor

Nathaniel D. Daw

Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience; Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology

Mitchell Duneier

Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52

Professor of Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology

Karen R. Emmerich

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Susan T. Fiske

Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Paul Frymer

Professor of Politics

Daniel Garber

A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy

Sheldon M. Garon Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Studies

Sophie G. Gee

Associate Professor of English; Associate Chair, Department of English

Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Professor of Politics; Director, James Madison Program

Eddie S. Glaude

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University

Professor; Professor of African American Studies; Chair, Department of African American Studies; Director, Program in African American Studies

Jonathan C. Gold

Professor of Religion; Director, Center for Culture, Society and Religion

Lars O. Hedin

George M. Moffett Professor of Biology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Grace E. Helton

Assistant Professor of Philosophy; R.R. Laidlaw University Preceptor

Brooke A. Holmes

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics

Mark Johnston

Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy

Thomas P. Kelly Professor of Philosophy

Martin Kern

Joanna and Greg Zeluck ’84 P13 P18 Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies

Joshua I. Kotin Associate Professor of English

Ilyana Kuziemko

Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics; Co-director, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies

Thomas C. Leonard Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities

Sarah-Jane Leslie Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy

Simon A. Levin

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Douglas S. Massey

Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Anne McClintock

A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Sarah E. McGrath Professor of Philosophy

Helen V. Milner

B.C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs; Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

Benjamin C. Morison

Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy

Naomi Murakawa

Associate Professor of African American Studies

Rob Nixon

Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment; Professor of English and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Guy J. Nordenson

Professor of School of Architecture

Jeff Nunokawa Professor of English

Serguei A. Oushakine Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Stephen W. Pacala Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dan-El Padilla Peralta

Associate Professor of Classics

Imani Perry

Professor of African American Studies

People

Deborah A. Prentice Provost; Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

Gideon A. Rosen Stuart Professor of Philosophy

Esther H. Schor

John J.F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor; Professor of English; Chair, Council of the Humanities; Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion; Director, Program in Humanistic Studies

Paul E. Starr Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

Frederick F. Wherry

Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology; Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Director of the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

David S. Wilcove Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Advisory Council

Anita L. Allen

Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Eric A. Beerbohm *08 Professor of Government, Harvard University

Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 President, Everfast, Inc.

Sara Ogger *00 Executive Director, Humanities New York

Henry Richardson

Professor of Philosophy and Senior Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Mark F. Rockefeller ’89

Founder and Chairman of Legacy Connect/ThatHelps

Debra Satz

Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of H&S, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science, Stanford University

Left to right: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Leif Wenar, Alison McQueen, and Greg Yudin attend UCHV’s welcome event.

Administration

Melissa Lane Director, University Center for Human Values; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics

Sandra Bermann Cotsen Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in Values and Public Life

Wayne Bivens-Tatum Philosophy and Religion Librarian

Lisa Corrato

Assistant Manager, Shared Services, Financial Support Services

Regin Davis

Assistant Director, University Center for Human Values

Dawn Disette

Administrative Assistant, University Center for Human Values

Martin Flaherty

Acting Director of Law Engaged Graduate Student Seminars

Kimberly Girman Faculty Assistant/Program Event Coordinator, University Center for Human Values

Elizabeth Harman Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; Director, EarlyCareer Research

Tammy Hojeibane Event and Communications Specialist, University Center for Human Values

Erika Kiss Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, European Cultural Studies, and Human Values

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Chair, Tanner Committee on Human Values

Caroline McHugh Sitren Shared Grants Manager, Research and Project Administration

Kimberly Murray Program Coordinator, University Center for Human Values

Andrew Perhac Technical Support Specialist, University Center for Human Values

Jane Peters Event and Office Coordinator

Melissa Lane and Program Manager Kimberly Murray. Kimberly received the Griffin ’23 Management Award conferred by Princeton’s Office of Human Resources.

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