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SUMMARY:Visiting Fellow: Connie Rosati
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]The Freedom Center is excited to welcome Dr. Connie Rosati as a visiting fellow during spring 2026. Visit dates: January 11-31\, 2025; March 29 – April 18\, 2026. \n​Connie S. Rosati is an American philosopher specializing in metaethics\, ethics\, and the philosophy of law. She currently holds the position of Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she has been a faculty member since 2020. \nHer research focuses on foundational issues in ethics\, such as the nature of normativity\, moral motivation\, and theories of well-being. She has also contributed to discussions on constitutional interpretation and the objectivity of law. Notable publications include “The Story of a Life\,” which examines the role of narrative in personal well-being\, and “Welfare and Rational Fit\,” where she proposes a theory connecting welfare to rational agency .​[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/visiting-fellow-connie-rosati/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Dates
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SUMMARY:Visiting Fellow: Sarah McGrath
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]The Freedom Center is excited to welcome Sarah McGrath as a visiting fellow during spring 2026. Sarah McGrath received an M.A. in philosophy from Tufts University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T. in 2002. She joined the Princeton faculty in Fall 2007\, after being an assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, MA\, from 2002-2005\, and at Brandeis University in Waltham\, MA\, from 2005-2007. Her primary areas of interest are metaphysics and ethics; recent publications include “Moral Disagreement”\, forthcoming in Russ Schafer-Landau\, ed.\, Oxford Studies in Metaethics; “Causation by Omission” (2005) in Philosophical Studies; and “Moral Knowledge by Perception” (2004) in Philosophical Perspectives. \nDr. McGrath may be contacted at smcgrath@princeton.edu and is currently found in the Visiting Fellow Office\, Social Sciences 239B. Please feel free to reach out to her with interest to meet![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/visiting-fellow-sarah-mcgrath/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Dates
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SUMMARY:FC Talks: Sarah McGrath
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Join us for an engaging talk by Sarah McGrath. This event will take place in Social Sciences 224 from 12:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and participate in a stimulating discussion! \nDr. McGrath may be contacted at smcgrath@princeton.edu and is currently found in the Visiting Fellow Office\, Social Sciences 239B. Please feel free to reach out to her with interest to meet![/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][split_line_heading animation_type=”line-reveal-by-space” font_style=”h1″ line_reveal_by_space_text_effect=”default” content_alignment=”default” mobile_content_alignment=”inherit” link_target=”_self” text_content=”What (If Anything)\nis Moral Experience?” text_direction=”default”][/split_line_heading][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nBio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah McGrath received an M.A. in philosophy from Tufts University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T. in 2002. She joined the Princeton faculty in Fall 2007\, after being an assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, MA\, from 2002-2005\, and at Brandeis University in Waltham\, MA\, from 2005-2007. Her primary areas of interest are metaphysics and ethics; recent publications include “Moral Disagreement”\, forthcoming in Russ Schafer-Landau\, ed.\, Oxford Studies in Metaethics; “Causation by Omission” (2005) in Philosophical Studies; and “Moral Knowledge by Perception” (2004) in Philosophical Perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Can’t make it in person? \nJoin the talk online![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nAbstract\n“Moral experience” is not a familiar pre-theoretical term. We understand\, “I have a lot of babysitting experience” and “how did you enjoy your dining experience?” but not: “I have a lot of moral experience\,” and “how did you enjoy your moral experience?” Nor is “moral experience” a familiar post-theoretical term. Whereas philosophers largely agree on what they mean by “perceptual experience”\, “visual experience\,” “illusory experience\,” they have yet to converge on a shared theoretical understanding of “moral experience.” In this talk I sort things out by providing an improved job description for moral experience\, and making a suggestion as to which conception of moral experience can best do the job. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/fc-talk-sarah-mcgrath/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 224\, 1145 E South Campus Drive\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85721\, United States
CATEGORIES:Freedom Center Talks
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SUMMARY:Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics
DESCRIPTION:About The Workshop\n\n\nThis annual Arizona Workshop features new work in normative ethical theory broadly construed\, to include not only issues about the right and the good\, but meta-theoretical questions about the project of developing and defending normative ethical theories. \nNormative ethical theory addresses general questions about the right and the good and attempts to answer such questions as: What sorts of actions are right or wrong and why? What sort of person ought one to become and why? Normative ethical theories\, including\, for instance\, versions of consequentialism\, deontology\, contractualism\, natural law theory\, and virtue ethics address such questions.  \nThe workshop receives generous financial support from the University of Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. \n​Submit an Abstract \nFind Additional Details about the Workshop
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/arizona-workshop-in-normative-ethics/
LOCATION:Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa\, 245 E Ina Rd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Tucson Refugee Ministry Meets with TCT and MOD
DESCRIPTION:Exploring themes of women’s rights in the United States\, and how that intersects with culture and financial literacy. Robin Palmer\, of Take Charge Today will present “Women in a Financial History” and Mari Clark will present a Museum of Democracy Activity.
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/tucson-refugee-ministry-meets-with-tct-and-mod-2/
LOCATION:Student Union Memorial Center\, 1303 E University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Outreach
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SUMMARY:SPHERE: America's 250th: Exploring the Founding Through an Economics and Civics Lens
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\n\nSphere Education Initiatives and the University of Arizona’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom are pleased to present our fourth annual Foundations of Civic Culture Summit. America’s 250th: Exploring the Founding Through an Economics and Civics Lens will be held in Mesa\, Arizona on January 24\, 2026. \nAs America approaches its 250th anniversary\, the fourth installment of this professional learning opportunity for educators invites educators to reflect on the Founding principles and the Founders’ intent while learning how economics and civil discourse sustain the nation’s civic life. This experience will challenge and support educators to engage their students in enduring questions of liberty\, virtue\, and mutual respect\, renewing the foundations of civic culture for generations to come. \nThis year’s Summit features two keynote presentations. Timothy Sandefur\, Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute and acclaimed author\, will discuss themes from his forthcoming book\, Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams\, Thomas Jefferson\, and the Declaration of Independence (2026). Additionally\, David Schmidtz\, Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University’s Chambers College of Business and Economics\, will offer a keynote about Adam Smith and his influence on the Founders. Sphere Education Initiatives\, the National Constitution Center\, and the Foundation for Teaching Economics will also offer professional development workshops. \nNew for this year\, participation in this event requires the completion of an application. Accepted applicants will be asked to register and pay a $20 deposit to hold their place\, which will be fully refunded in their stipend after completion of the event. Registration includes all meals\, books\, classroom materials\, a stipend\, and professional development hours. \n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n\nThis event offers the following benefits: \n\n6 hours of professional development\nBreakfast and lunch included\nFree classroom resources and books\n$100 stipend\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”see-through-2″ hover_text_color_override=”#ffffff” icon_family=”none” text=”LEARN MORE & REGISTER” url=”https://www.sphere-ed.org/event/foundations-civic-culture-january-24-2026″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://freedomcenter.arizona.edu/event/sphere-americas-250th-exploring-the-founding-through-an-economics-and-civics-lens/
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