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New Visiting Faculty

April 30, 2019

We are excited to have three new assistant professors joining the UNC PPE Program in fall 2019! Ryan Doody received his PhD from MIT and his work focuses on rationality….

New PPE Faculty Announcement

April 24, 2019

…PhD from Stanford and focuses on philosophy of action and philosophy of education. Professor Morton comes to UNC from the City University of New York. Tom Dougherty has an undergraduate…

National Undergraduate PPE Colloquiums

March 28, 2023

…Alive’”, New York Times, February 16, 2023. Frischman, Brett and Evan Sellinger, Reengineering Humanity. 2018. Cambridge U Press. Pp. 1-28, 175-183. Munger, Kevin. “Ban LLMs Using First Person Pronouns.” (Never…

Fall Reading Groups

August 22, 2016

…Moral and Political Philosophy. The groups will meet over dinner (at Gourmet Kingdom in Carrboro). The readings will be provided and the cost of dinner will be covered. Space is…

Why PPE?

October 20, 2012

…of careers in different fields. Possible career paths include: Private sector: management, consulting, business administration, law, journalism, finance, etc. Public sector and NGOs: government, public administration, political parties, public policy,…

PPE looking to fill new senior position

January 10, 2017

The UNC PPE Program is pleased to announce a new senior position. We are searching for an accomplished scholar with specialties in moral and political philosophy, who has research and…

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Brennan (1944-2022)

August 2, 2022

…and the growing field of “behavioral economics” later in the ’90s, which developed into scholarship at the intersection of philosophy of social science and ethics. He published several books in…

PPE Undergraduate Colloquium

February 24, 2016

Every year the Duke/UNC PPE program brings together about 20 outstanding PPE students from across the country to discuss a core topic with moral, economic, and political dimensions. Past topics…

A PPE Survey

November 30, 2023

…the PPE MA, students with AP credits or summer school courses may well be able to complete the PPE master’s program in just four years. The prospect of graduating with…