The inaugural PPE Philanthropy Project workshop seeks to match foundations with faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates students who can deliver imaginative responses to philanthropy’s knottiest challenges and questions. Participants will bring expertise in the philosophical, political, and economic … Read more
Please join us for the first talk of the year in our PPE Speaker Series! This is a free lecture, open to the public, with Q&A to follow. Pizza will be provided after the event! Abstract: How will current … Read more
Abstract: In Sovereign Virtue, Ronald Dworkin wrote “Almost everyone assumes that democracy means equal voting power”. If anything like that is true, much hangs on how we understand voting power. The standard account is that your voting power is the … Read more
Join us on Oct 1st in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union Auditorium from 5:30-7:00 pm for a conversation between Richard Ebeling and Michael Meeropol about threats to liberal democracy, both past and present. The event is co-sponsored by the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics … Read more
More information forthcoming! Required Reading: "Most Americans are moderates": This idea undergirds a lot of my work and I think is the key to figuring out how to win elections. Political elites are almost always very ideological people … Read more
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Abstract: "It’s often said that Bayesian updating is unbiased and converges to the truth—and, therefore, that biases must emerge from non-Bayesian sources. That’s wrong. For agents like us, updating on our total evidence is impossible—instead, we must selectively attend to certain questions, ignoring … Read more
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Hosted by UNC in collaboration with Duke. This is an invitational colloquium that brings some of the best PPE undergraduates from around the country to Chapel Hill, NC for two days of intensive discussion of material that has been read … Read more
This PPE public lecture is co-sponsored with the Program for Public Discourse and is part of their Abbey Speakers Series. The speakers will be Kashic Basu (Cornell University, former chief economist of the World Bank), Robert Doar (President of the … Read more
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