Abstract: The notion of manipulation is increasingly invoked in relation to pressing issues discussed in the news and in public discourse. Consider, for example, the heated debates on how propaganda and misinformation have been recently used to lead people to … Read more
This talk is free and open to the public. Pizza will be provided after the talk! Abstract: What is forgiveness? And why forgive? I mean this in two ways: What reasons bear on the question of whether to offer or … Read more
Curtailing Freedoms to Protect Freedom: Regulating Against Behavioural-Informed Infringements on a Fair Exchange Abstract: Behavioural public policy is a relatively new, but already substantial, subfield of public policy. To date, paternalistic frameworks have tended to dominate this subfield, at least … Read more
Jess Flanigan is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law and the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics & Democratic Values at the University of Richmond where she teaches ethics and critical thinking classes. Her … Read more
An intensive one-day workshop for faculty and graduate students on papers in progress by our PPE Teaching Assistant Professors. Click the title links below to review abstracts for each talk. Agenda: 8:30 am Breakfast and Conversation 9:00 – … Read more
Economics has always been shadowed by a movement denouncing its practitioners, attacking its assumptions, rejecting its conclusions, and protesting its influence. Historian of economics William Oliver Coleman calls the movement anti-economics. But what used to be an innocent pastime … Read more
The Second International Behavioral Public Policy Conference Program Details Keynote speakers: Erik Angner Sunita Sah Plenary Session Panels: New Directions in BPP at UNC-CH with Sreedhari Desai (Business), Allison Lazard (Journalism), and Lindsey Taillie (Global Public Health) BPP in State and Federal Governance with David Yokum (NC Office of Strategic … Read more
Pizza will be available after the talk, so stick around! This event satisfies a CLE credit. *The venue for this event has a max capacity of 91; once the room has filled, no one else will be allowed entry, so arrive … Read more
Second Applied Epistemology Workshop The Epistemology of Science Communication: New Directions In an age of widespread narratives about public distrust of scientific experts, researchers across the social sciences and philosophy have investigated how to enhance public trust in science … Read more
The Politics of Self-Destruction explores Rousseau’s idea that people in commercial societies are on an endless quest for happiness yet only manage to orchestrate their own destruction. Rousseau’s insight seems more convincing today, in the face of imminent environmental disaster, … Read more
This event is an open, public lecture co-sponsored by the Department of Public Policy, to be followed by Q&A. This event satisfies a CLE credit. Pizza will be available after the talk, so stick around! Abstract: Years of life … Read more
This is a free lecture open to the public with Q&A to follow! Pizza will be provided after the event, so stick around! Abstract: What did it mean to be a traitor in seventeenth-century England? Over the course of the … Read more
