Monday, June 2 - Saturday, June 7, 2025
Applications for the 2025 PPE Graduate Summer Workshop are now closed. Please check back here for future workshop updates.
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 week-long 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
For more details about this program, please contact Professor John Thrasher (thrasheriv@chapman.edu).
*International students are welcome to apply. Please note that for students who are not US residents for tax purposes, the award may be subject to tax withholding which will reduce the amount of each payment you receive.
2025 PPE Summer Workshop
Justin Bruner, Philosophy, Buffalo
Taylor Jaworski, Economics, CU, Boulder
Jake Monaghan, Philosophy, USC
Ryan Muldoon, Philosophy, Buffalo
Brian Skyrms, Philosophy, UCI
David Wiens, Political Science, UCSD
Erik Kimbrough, Economics, Chapman
Keith Hankins, Philosophy, Chapman
Jared Rubin, Economics, Chapman
John Thrasher, Philosophy, Chapman
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, CU, 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