» PPE Graduate Summer Workshop

Monday, June 2 - Saturday, June 7, 2025

 

Applications for the 2025 PPE Graduate Summer Workshop are now open. Please submit your application here.

Application deadline is Friday, January 24, 2025.

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.

Please view last year's workshop schedule here.

"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

 

For more details about this program, please contact Professor John Thrasher (thrasheriv@chapman.edu). 

 


Previous Faculty

2024 PPE Summer Workshop

Justin Bruner, Philosophy, Buffalo

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

Keith Hankins, Philosophy, Chapman

Bart Wilson, Economics, Chapman

Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman

John Thrasher, Philosophy, Chapman

 

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