Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Catalog description

PPE deploys the tools of the contemporary social sciences to inform normative reflection upon the most urgent individual and social choices we face today across many domains: markets, governance, technology, human health, and many more. This course teaches students how to apply the tools of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics to a selection of such challenges. These tools may include various methods of normative reasoning, decision theory, game theory, and social choice theory. Empirical work from a variety of social scientific fields will be utilized in order to inform the relevant normative assessments. 002366