“Moral Symbols: A Necklace of Garlic against Unethical Requests” Sreedhari Desai, Assistant Professor in the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina works to understand "how, why, when and where social inequality, organizations and institutions interact." She … Read more
"PPE: A Freakonomics Perspective" 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 … Read more
*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE FLORENCE. IT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 5:30 PM! *** This is a meeting for students who would like to find out more about the PPE Program, … Read more
This is a meeting for current PPE minors as well as any students who would like to find out more about the PPE Program, the PPE minor, and our various extracurricular offerings. It will be a chance to meet some … Read more
Held in collaboration with Better Angels, this workshop brings together 5-7 self-identified conservative-leaning students and 5-7 self-identified liberal-leaning students for a day of moderated activities and discussions that clarify disagreements, reduce stereotyped thinking, and begin building the relationships needed to find common … Read more
The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institute released “A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream.” The PPE Program is hosting a one day intensive seminar, with two of the co-authors, Robert Doar (AEI) and Richard Reeves (Brookings), and … Read more
An intensive one day workshop on papers in progress by our PPE Research Assistant Professors: Ryan Doody, "Consider the Ostrich: Non-Utilitarians, Ex Ante Interests, and Burying Your Head in the Sand" Simone Gubler (“Forgiveness, Politics, and the Law: the Case Against … Read more
"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
"National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy" ABSTRACT: A foundational conviction of contemporary liberal thought is that all persons matter equally. However, states frequently pursue policies that are strikingly partial towards compatriots over foreigners. A common strategy for justifying this partiality … Read more
"Infinite Ethics Meets Decision Theory" ABSTRACT: Some classic forms of utilitarianism presume that the goodness of a state of affairs can be determined by adding up numerical representations of the welfare of each of the people. When a population is … Read more
