2008-9
The Goldstone Forum speaker for PPE for this year will be Paul Krugman. The talk is expected to be held in late February.
2007-8
PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Danley a University of Pennsylvania graduate from Germantown, Md., has won the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. Danley is the eighth Marshall Scholar from Penn and the University's sixth in the last seven years. Marshall Scholarships provide opportunities for young Americans of outstanding ability to study at educational institutions in the United Kingdom.
Danley, who earned a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the College of the School of Arts and Sciences in 2007, plans to pursue an M. Phil. in comparative social policy at Oxford University in England.
"Stephen is a true Renaissance man," Penn Provost Ronald J. Daniels said. "He is a basketball star, a team leader, a poet, a New York Times blogger and a passionate student of social policy. We are extremely proud that he will represent Penn abroad as a Marshall Scholar."
Steven F. Goldstone, C ’67, has given $1.5 million to the School of Arts and Sciences to strengthen the undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) program. Mr. Goldstone, who majored in political science at Penn, has been a key supporter of PPE since 2001, when he gave $2 million to the program. This recent gift will be used to expand PPE-sponsored activities and undergraduate research opportunities, and to support post-doctoral appointments and visiting professors.
Justin Wolfers, Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School, spoke on discrimination in the NBA on October 25, 2007.
Colin Allen, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, spoke on How to Reason Without Words: Inference as Categoraization on January 17, 2008.
Till Grüne-Yanoff, researcher at the Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as a visiting fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method of the London School of Economics, spoke on How Economists Reacquired Game Theory After Iits Biological Metamorphosis on January 18, 2008.
Mark Pauly, Bendheim Professor and Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics at The Wharton School, spoke on health care economics in the USA on January 22, 2008.
Lara Buchak, Philosophy Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, spoke on Risk Without Regret on January 25, 2008.
Giacomo Sillari, Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke on Coordination, Cognition, and Common Knowledge: How Social Conventions Work on February 1, 2008.
David Dillenberger,
Princeton University, spoke on Preferences for One-Shot Resolution of Uncertainty and Allais-Type Behavior on February 15, 2008.
Steve Levitt, Alvin Baum Professor of Economics and Director of the Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago and author of Freakonomics, spoke at the 2007-8 Goldstone Forum on April 21.
2006-7
PPE sponsored Penn undergraduate student MicroFinance conference
Dennis Thompson,Professor of Political Philosophy and Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, spoke at the 2006-7 Goldstone Forum on March 27.
Stephen Danley, PPE student, Penn BasketBall starting center and Rhodes finalist, is publishing his column on the New York Times blog for the 2007 NCAA tournament. His first column is available here.
Sebastiano Maffetone, Professor of Political Philosophy, LUISS-Guido Carli University and Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Italy; Director, CERSDU (Center for Research and Studies on Human Rights)
spoke on Universal Duty and Global Justice on October 20.
Bill Titelman, Partner at Bernstein, Liebhard & Lifshitz, spoke on "Corporate Culture and the Threat to the American Way of Life: The View of a Radicalized Victim" on November 20, 2006.
Talk by Carol Gould, Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at Temple University, spoke on March 15 on Transnational Power, Coercion and Democracy.
PPE was proud to co-sponsor " Justice and the Social Contract":
a symposium on Samuel Freeman's "Justice and the Social Contract." This was a conference in honor and celebration of the publication of Samuel
Freeman’s book, “Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political
Philosophy” (Oxford University Press 2006). Samuel Freeman is a Professor of Philosophy affiliated with the PPE progranm, and the former director of PPE.
Till Grüne-Yanoff spoke on "Learning from Economic Models" January 29, 2007, 4-5 PM, 104 Logan Hall.
Erte Xiao wins Russel Sage Foundation Grant in Behavioral Economics. The grant is for research on a project titled: “Punish in Private and Praise in Public."
PPE welcomes new faculty Jason Dana , Giacomo Sillari and Erte Xiao.
2005-2006
New PPE student journal launched.
PPE is pleased to have distinguished philospopher Brian Skyrms vist the program and teach a course during the spring semester.
PPE has greatly revamped its undergraduate major in the 2005-6 academic year. Now PPE students have an enormous degree of choice in "individualizing" their major within themes, and can take classes in SAS, Wharton and the Law School.
PPE 2004-5 Goldstone Forum Speaker Thomas Schelling awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science.
PPE Student Taylor Buley publishes book: "The Fresh Politics Reader: Making Current Events And Public Affairs Relevant to Young Americans"