Dinner at The Carolina Club begins at 6:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) and includes three courses plus coffee and tea. Lunch begins at 12 p.m. No jeans, please.

Contact Catherine Nichols ’89, senior coordinator of faculty relations and travel, if you need to modify your registration or cancel, (919) 270-3524 or catherine.nichols@unc.edu.

Geoff Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor Director, UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program has published extensively on moral theory, epistemology, and modern philosophy, and has edited Essays on Moral Realism,  Hume: Moral Philosophy. and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (with Jonathan Anomaly, Geoff Brennan, and Michael Munger).

Recently, Sayre-McCord’s research has focused on the nature of normative concepts.  His work in progress on this topic are available in draft:

• “On a Theory of a Better Morality“
• “A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas“
• “Rational Agency and the Nature of Normative Concepts“

Pre-publication versions of the following recent papers are also are available:

• “Regulation, Ethics, and ‘Policy Technology’” (with Geoffrey Brennan)
• “Real World Theory, Complacency, and Aspiration, Final” (with Geoffrey Brennan)
• “Hume’s Robust Theory of Practical Reason“
• “Hume’s Theory of Public Reason“

Sayre-McCord is the Director of UNC’s Philosophy, Politics, & Economics Program. He is also the Founding Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society, an international scholarly society for those interested in the issues that arise at the intersection of the three disciplines in the Society’s name.  Sayre-McCord was a Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 2013 until 2016 and is now a Regular Distinguished Visiting Professor there. He was on leave for the 2015-16 academic year at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, where he was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching. Sayre-McCord received the 2019 Philip L. Quinn Prize from the American Philosophical Association, for “service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed.” He won the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022.