A small workshop for the Visiting Professors and others in the philosophy and PPE community. Session I: 9:30 – 11:00 Alexander Jech “What has Athens to do with Rome? De Tocqueville and Republican Liberty” Session II: 11:10 -12:40 Molly Gardner … Read more
"Launching Liberalism: Philosophic Anthropology and the Leviathan State" Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, works in Political Theory and Constitutional Studies. He is the author ofNatural Rights and the New Republicanism, theNatural Rights … Read more
“Morality and Cost Benefit Analysis” on "Morality and Cost Benefit Analysis."Professor Adler has recently joined Duke as the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy.
All Liberty is Basic: Why Trivial Rights Merit Legal Recognition. Jessica Flanigan, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, at the University of Richmond, has research interests in the ethics of business and medicine, law, and … Read more
"Adam Smith on Justice and Social Justice" James Otteson, Executive Director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest, specializes in Adam Smith. Before moving to Wake Forest this Fall, he was a joint professor of … Read more
"The Rawls-Harsanyi Dispute: A Moral Point of View" Michael Moehler is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virigina Tech. He works primarily on political philosophy. Before moving there he was a visiting professor in UNC's PPE Program.
This is a public event exploring the questions raised by attempts to measure happiness. Invited speakers:Matthew Adler, Dan Ariely, Paul Dolan, and Carol Graham.
The Problem of Revolution and Liberty: Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peter C. Myers is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is the author of Our Only Star and Compass: Locke … Read more
Our fifth annual PPE Colloquium for undergraduates from PPE Programs around the country. Organized around papers that are read in advance, the colloquium consists of two days of intensive discussion of issues at the center of PPE.
This is an intensive one day seminar on “Public Choice and Government Failure.” Professor Georg Vanberg will be leading the discussion. There will be four sessions: What Is the Public Choice Approach?,Constitutions as Contracts for Liberty, Factions, Interest Groups, and Self-Interest, and Constitutional Reform as a … Read more
