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PPE Salon: Do We Have a Moral Duty to Vote?

Caldwell 103

This salon will be held in Caldwell 103 on Wednesday, October 9, at 6:30 pm. Please use the form below to request a seat! Salon leader: Logan Mitchell Description: Every four years, people yell at each other about the ethics … Read more

PPE Salon: How Do You Win an Election?

Caldwell 213 240 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC

On Thursday, October 17, the PPE Program is hosting a salon with Milan Singh. The central question: How do you win an election? This question is particularly relevant to students. This fall, North Carolina will be one of the most … Read more

PPE Speaker Series: “Ideological Bayesians” with Kevin Dorst (MIT)

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

National Undergraduate PPE Colloquium 2025

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

Public Lecture: Evaluating Economies

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