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PPE senior Jake Shepherd defends Honors thesis on the Morality of Cash Bail

Jake Shepherd, a PPE graduating senior, has successfully defended an excellent Honors thesis on "Two Moral Problems for Cash Bail and Its Alternatives."

The thesis was the result of a year…

PPE Society attends New Albany debate with Arthur Laffer and Robert Reich

On March 8, ten students from Ohio State's undergraduate PPE Society attended a discussion between economists Arthur Laffer and Robert Reich hosted by the New Albany Center for Civil Discourse and…

PPE Courses Fall 2023

PPE Core Course PHILOS / POLITSC 3001 (TTh 11:10-12:30 / Heydari Fard & MacGilvray)

PPE research group discusses Machiavelli's The Prince

Elyse Reed, PPE Society Vice President and a PPE major, has organized an undergraduate research group to study Machiavelli's classic work, The Prince.

Other participating students include:…

Co-coordinator Piers Turner discusses the PPE major, civil discourse, and utilitarianism on "More Human" podcast

Piers Norris Turner (Associate Professor, Philosophy) joined "More Human" host Matt Jordan for a discussion on the value of studying philosophy and Ohio State's Philosophy, Politics, and Economics…

Four PPE faculty speak at international PPE Society conference

Core PPE faculty members – Sahar Heydari Fard, Eric MacGilvray, Emma Saunders-Hastings, and Piers Norris Turner – all gave presentations at the annual PPE Society conference from Nov 4-6, 2022. It…

PPE Prize Winners Announced

Graduating seniors Pablo Manon-Mateos and Joey Miller have been awarded the 2022 PPE Prizes for Academic Excellence.

The Prize annually honors up to two undergraduate students in the PPE…

Congratulations graduates!

...and best wishes for a bright future!

Heidi Bowles

Olivia Burdette

Bailey Culp

Ben Errig

New PPE faculty: Sahar Heydari Fard

We are thrilled to announce that the Department of Philosophy has hired Dr. Sahar Heydari Fard to the position of Assistant Professor, starting in autumn 2022.

Professor Heydari Fard’s…