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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

…Tom Dougherty has an undergraduate degree in PPE from Oxford and received his PhD from MIT. Professor Dougherty joins UNC from Cambridge and he works on the ethics of consent….

National Undergraduate PPE Colloquiums

March 28, 2023

…Christiano, Thomas. Chapter 8. The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits. Mittal, Sonia, and Barry R. Weingast. “Self-Enforcing Constitutions: With an Application to Democratic Stability In America’s First…

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

…able to assess their value is crucial. The PPE Program’s mission is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of social, economic, political and moral problems.  In doing this, PPE…

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

…(check all that apply)(Required) Building transferable skills (for example: logical reasoning, persuasive writing, public speaking) Forming a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of social, political, and moral problems Quantitative analysis Qualitative…