About the PPE Network

The PPE concept, which was established at Oxford about a century ago, is currently experiencing a renaissance worldwide. PPE scholarship has three central characteristics: (1) It is interdisciplinary by design, as it incorporates methods and theories of three separate academic disciplines and is open to collaboration and communication with neighboring disciplines besides. (2) It moves comfortably from the concrete problems facing humans living in society to the highest reaches of abstract scientific modeling and philosophical reflection. (3) It fuses descriptive theory and normative analysis, as PPE scholars grapple explicitly not just with questions about what is but with questions about what ought to be.

The PPE Network at Stockholm University aims to foster a community of scholars and students who can advance PPE scholarship at the highest international level.

Activities

PPE Network activities include a variety of lectures, workshops, and seminars, including brownbag lunch seminars where network members are afforded the opportunity to discuss their research in an informal way. Activities are coordinated with the undergraduate PPE Program, taught in Swedish.

Events

Autumn 2018

• 22 aug PPE Lecture (3 – 5 pm)
  Bryan Caplan (George Mason University) on “Should Immigration Be Restricted?”
• 19 sep PPE Brownbag lunch seminar (12 – 1 pm)
  Robert Östling (IIES) on "Rich and Right? The Effect of Wealth on Political Attitudes"
• 25 sep Research Seminar (2 – 4 pm)
  Nicholas Southwood (Australian National University) on “Feasibility and Normative Encroachment”
• 26 nov PPE Lecture (3 – 5 pm)
  Caterina Marchionni (University of Helsinki) on “The Value-Ladenness of Social Science”
• 29 nov PPE Brownbag lunch seminar (12 – 1 pm)
  Simon Birnbaum on "Exit Strategy or Exit Trap? Basic Income and the ’Power to Say No’ in the Age of Precarious Employment"

Spring 2018

Wednesday April 11: Ingvild Almås on “Inequality Acceptance”

Wednesday May 9: Erik Angner on “Nudging as Design”

Thursday May 31: Luc Bovens on "An Efficiency Argument for Gender-Neutral Restrooms"

Co-chairs

Erik Angner (Department of Philosophy, Stockholm)

Eva Erman (Department of Political Science, Stockholm)

Robert Östling (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)

For questions, please contact Erik (erik.angner@philosophy.su.se).

Join us

Anyone affiliated with Stockholm University (however loosely) is invited to join the network. To do so, please sign up for our mailing list by visiting lists.su.se/mailman/listinfo/ppe-at-philosophy.su.se