Ryan Muldoon

This also shows up in Schumpeter’s discussion of elite overproduction. Highly trained people whose expectations are frustrated work to undermine the institutions they lost under. I think this generalizes to Hobbes’ view that when things are going well people think “I could do better”

PPE at the Frontier We welcome you to our Second Annual PPE At the Frontier Workshop: Institutional Diversity and Social Dynamism.

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The Second Annual PPE at the Frontier event was fantastic. Thanks to our incredible guests for an extremely stimulating two days, and some possible new collaborations! Looking forward to next year!

No, I had never heard of it! Sounds interesting though. I would love to see more reasoning from complexity in liberal theory. And more democratic philosophy that doesn’t just announce what the majority will choose.

Gaus’ Tyranny of the Ideal and The Open Society and its Complexities.

I also like my Social Contract for a Diverse World

The liberal acknowledges and lives comfortably among many incommensurable status games. The authoritarian is intent on reducing them all down to one.

Postdoctoral Associate The Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Program at the University at Buffalo is inviting applications for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervisi...

Are you a democratic theorist? Interested in Immigration? Want a 2 year postdoc? Come join the UB PPE group! Work with our large and growing team on our Mellon Foundation-Funded grant “Inclusive Immigration and Democratic Revival in a Rust Belt City.” Live the dream in Buffalo.

PPE Graduate Summer Workshop Info on the PPE Summer Workshop

Grad students! Apply for our *free* weeklong workshop on PPE methods. Join our ever-growing network of scholars engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary study of difficult social problems.

June 2-7. Applications due Jan 24.

PPE receives $500,000 Mellon grant The Philosophy, Politics and Economics progran will use the funding to analyze the effect of immigration on local democratic norms.

UB's PPE group has gotten our third big grant this academic year! With Alex Oprea as PI, we'll be looking at inclusive immigration and local democratic innovation.

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Facebook groups saved lives during '22 blizzard. UB studying how they kept communities connected A group of researchers at the University at Buffalo is studying, in part, the role two Facebook groups – Buffalo STORM and Buffalo Blizzard Response – played in keeping communities

Nice story about our NSF grant on community blizzard response!

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On Liberty. Really nicely written for a broad audience, has a lot of great ideas, and is obviously relevant.

Graduate Admission Applications are welcome from students whose philosophical interests correspond with those of our faculty members, particularly in those areas in which our department has notable strengths (e.g., PPE,...

We have an incredibly vibrant and supportive academic community. Tons of opportunities for ambitious students. And Buffalo is a great city with tons of amenities, all of which a grad student can afford. UB PPE is very tough to beat!

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Not sure about the academic job market, and want to have some industry options as well? UB has a *100%* placement rate into high-paying industry jobs for those who want them.

Want a lot of opportunities for talking philosophy and developing your projects? We have more talks and workshops than you can shake a stick at. We have reading groups galore. And we have the resources to support graduate students who present at conferences.

Concerned about professionalization, both in terms of learning the process of publishing academic articles and giving presentations? We have weekly sessions about this with our graduate students, with ample opportunities to refine these skills.

Our undergraduate and graduate students all have many opportunities for impactful projects in the community. Not sure how to start? This can all be supported by the PPE group's full-time Community Engagement Coordinator.

Maybe you are interested in more community-engaged philosophy. We have 4 talks a year as part of our Local Leader speaker series. We hold community deliberative forums with many community civic partners. We hold other outreach events to facilitate two-way learning between UB and the community.

Interested in learning about XPhi, and doing either lab-based experiments or developing philosophically-minded surveys? Aside from all of the faculty and postdocs, how about a lab manager to facilitate that work, and significant grant funding to help support it?

Before we even consider our many partners in other departments, we have FIVE top faculty who specialize in PPE. Then we have many other faculty in the department whose work nicely complements and enhances PPE training.

Graduate Admission Applications are welcome from students whose philosophical interests correspond with those of our faculty members, particularly in those areas in which our department has notable strengths (e.g., PPE,...

Academics! Students considering grad school! Are you interested in PPE?

Consider the University at Buffalo.

We have:
5 core PPE faculty
4 postdocs
1 lab manager
1 community outreach coordinator
Tons of talks

Lots of opportunity and support.
PhD and MA options.

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Experimental Philosophy for Beginners This graduate textbook provides a basic introduction to experimental philosophy. It explains the research process in an accessible way via case studies

Broaden your toolkit, philosophers!

My "Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, and Discovery" (in Moehler and Thrasher's fantastic volume on New Approaches to Social Contract Theory) was featured by OUP for their "Philosophy in Focus: Democracy" collection. Give it a read!
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Lab Manager A Lab Manager position is available in the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo under the supervision of Ryan Muldoon. This position will be supported by the Templeton Grant “Diversit...

Experimentalists: Are you looking to help run a choice lab? Interested in diversity, dynamism and inclusion, and studying the mechanisms that make them work? Come join us at UB! We are hiring a lab manager!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/53232

Postdoctoral Associate A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo under the supervision of Ryan Muldoon. This position will be supported by the Templeton Gran...

Academics: Are you interested in diversity, dynamism and inclusion? Are you interested in the foundations of liberalism? We have two 2-year postdocs to study this at UB! Come join our very active and supportive intellectual community!
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Another fantastic PPE Society meeting in the books. Particularly delighted by the excellent Gaus Memorial Prize session and the ever-growing Poster Session for PPE summer school participants. The future of PPE is very bright.

UB Philosophy, Politics and Economics program faculty awarded $2.5 million to study rights, equality and freedom ‘The importance of this work is difficult to overstate,’ Ryan Muldoon says of the Templeton-funded project.

The PPE group at UB was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation for our project "Diversity, Dynamism and Inclusion: A New Multi-Method Approach for Studying Liberalism."

We're really excited to get to work!

PPE Graduate Summer Workshop Info on the PPE Summer Workshop

Grad Students! Want to learn more about core methods of PPE? Want to build your network? Want to do all of this for free? Join us at the 4th Annual PPE Graduate Summer Workshop! July 22-26.

Applications due Feb 15.

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Are you thinking about grad study in social, political, phil of social science, or PPE? Want to build formal and experimental skills to help make theoretical insights?

Come study at UB! We have a thriving intellectual community and outstanding mentors

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Thanks!

Trying to re-create a version of my list of people to follow. Can folks help me find political philosophers / PPE types / xphi / philosophers of (social) science?