An intensive one day workshop on papers in progress by Amy Berg, Brookes Brown, Yoaav Isaacs, Jeff Sebo, and Steve Swartzer. Information, including the schedule, and a registration form, are available HERE. This event is sponsored by the PPE Program … Read more
'Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: The Psychology, Theory and Practice of Weighing Small against Large Harms' Alex Voorhoev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at LSE. He works broadly in political philosophy and … Read more
This will be an intensive one-day seminar run by Professor Georg Vanberg, starting in the morning and running through dinner, with readings and lunch and dinner provided.
The first meeting of the 2017-2018 academic year will be held on Wednesday, 6 September at 6:30pm in 213 Caldwell Hall. Pizza will be served! We'll be discussing club procedures and brainstorming a program for the 2017-2018 academic year. Pizza will … Read more
The full video of Dr. Cowen's talk at Hyde Hall is available on YouTube here. In this talk, Tyler Cowen outlined the basic premises and claims of his latest book, The Complacent Class. Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted … Read more
Laurie Shrage's work evaluates public policies on markets in sexual services and expressive materials, reproductive health care, legal gender identity, and marriage. She is more interested in the active application of philosophical theory to inform public debate - in what she terms … Read more
Bringing together three experts on the nature of happiness and well-being—Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), Carol Graham (the Brookings Institute), Dan Russell (University of Arizona)—this one-day workshop was designed to bring participants up to speed on current research and issues in … Read more
JUSTIFYING PATERNALISM There are many things we shouldn’t be allowed to do in the world as it is today: among them, to eat meat, have more than one child, or drive gas-fueled cars. Some people, however, think this claim is … Read more
Richard V. Reeves will present a talk based on his recent book "Dream Hoarders? Enduring Inequality and the American Upper Middle Class." America is becoming a class-based society. It is conventional wisdom to focus on the excesses of the top … Read more
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He is best-known as co-author of the New York Times bestselling Freakonomics series. They have sold more than 7 million copies in more than 40 countries. Dubner is also … Read more
An intensive one day workshop on papers in progress by Chris Howard, Alex Marcoci, Alex Oprea, and Dan Shahar. Lunch and dinner provided. Please register in advance, using the form you will find HERE. Further information HERE.
"I Didn’t Do It: Very Implausible Denials and Social Unreality" ABSTRACT: When I make a very implausible denial, I deny phi-ing, in a context in which (1) before I speak, it is common knowledge that I phi-ed and (2) after I … Read more
