Which of the issues facing today's world are you inspired to tackle? No matter the challenge — climate change, housing scarcity, income inequality and more — the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics ...

A minor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is an excellent complement to majors such as Economics, Political Science, Law, Geography, Sociology, Criminology or Philosophy. This ...

In early May, the student-run Journal of Philosophy, Politics & Economics published its inaugural issue. In their foreword to the first volume, the editorial board enthusiastically endorsed ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

The last time a politician with a philosophical bent stood up before the American people, as Vice Presidential Candidate James Stockdale did, and asked “Who am I? Why am I here?”, the media and the ...

As I watched the Madaraka Day celebrations unfold last Friday, I noticed no one was talking about Jubilee, NASA or any other political party. In the meantime, Jubilee’s 2017 election 10-point ...

In his recent book on what artificial intelligence could mean for a culture permeated with the spirit of self-improvement (an $11 billion industry in the U.S. alone), Mark Coeckelbergh points to a ...

I frequently spend time around my department’s professors as a philosophy major at the University of Iowa. During office hours with UI Philosophy Visiting Assistant Professor Keith Harris, he relays ...

Students must complete the overview in section I, any one of four historical periods from section II.A, and any one of four fields from section II.B. This is preparation for the 90-minute written exam ...

What does an education truly cost society? How should we think about justice on a global scale? How do we measure what makes a city successful? These are some of the questions you can explore as you ...