Monday, July 22 through Saturday, July 27, 2024
Application for the 2024 PPE Graduate Summer Workshop is now closed.
Applicants should be graduate students (MA or Ph.D) or incoming graduate students. The workshop is offered free of charge with lodging, books, and (most) meals covered. For help with travel funding, consider applying to your university or to the Hayek Fund for a travel grant.
This weeklong summer workshop will combine the introduction of PPE methods with practical training and philosophical discussion. Topics include:
Rational Choice & Game Theory
Formal Political Theory: Spatial Theory & Coalitional Bargaining
Experimental Economic / Experimental Methods
Social Norms
Evolutionary Theory & Social Evolution
Agent-Based Modeling
This workshop pairs instruction on the basics of PPE methods with discussions of cutting-edge PPE research that uses those methods. The size of this workshop facilitates lecturers and organizers to get to know each student and to address any specific questions they have along the way. One added benefit of this format is the substantial possibilities for networking among the participants. The overlapping interests they explore here and the friendships they form will likely lead to future research collaborations. In addition to the instructional and research sessions, participants will also work on developing a PPE research project that they will present to the group at the end of the week.
"This week helped me in becoming more methodologically self-conscious -- I have a much better grip on the methods of more traditional analytic political philosophy and the interdisciplinary methods of PPE."
--Participant of the 2021 Workshop
2024 PPE Summer Workshop
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, UNC, Chapel Hill
Shaun Nichols, Philosophy, Cornell
David Skarbek, Political Science, Brown
Emily Skarbek, Economics, Brown
David Wiens, Political Science, UCSD
Ryan Muldoon, Philosophy, Buffalo
Taylor Jaworksi, Economics, UC, Boulder
Bart Wilson, Economics, Chapman
Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman
John Thrasher, Philosophy Chapman
Previous Faculty
2023 PPE Summer Workshop
David Skarbek, Political Science, Brown University
Emily Skarbek, Political Economics, Brown University
David Wiens, Political Science, UC San Diego
Sean Ingham, Political Science, UC San Diego
Scott Soames, Philosophy, USC
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill
Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman University
Ryan Muldoon, Philosophy, University of Buffalo
2022 PPE Summer Workshop
Keith Hankins, Philosophy, Chapman University
Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman University
Ryan Muldoon, Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Michael Munger, Political Science, Duke University
Cailin O'Connor, University of California, Irvine
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
John Thrasher, Philosophy, Chapman University
Bas Van der Vossen, Philosophy, Chapman University
David Wiens, University of California, San Diego
Sarah Muldoon, University at Buffalo
2021 PPE Summer Workshop
Vernon Smith, Economics, Chapman University
Cristina Bicchieri, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado, Boulder
Hun Chung, Waseda University
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Keith Hankins, Philosophy, Chapman University
Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman University
Cailin O'Connor, University of California, Irvine
David Rojo-Arjona, Economics, Chapman University
David Wiens, University of California, San Diego
Bart Wilson, Economics, Chapman University
For more details about this program, please contact Professor John Thrasher (thrasheriv@chapman.edu).