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Julian Lamont ([log in to unmask]). -- RBE]
Below is what I have cobbled together as information for students who ask
me about places to pursue graduate work in economics and philosophy. Thank
you to those who sent me information about programs at their home
institutions -- I have cut and pasted it into the email below. I know I
have left out a lot -- if you intend sending me other contributions (or
corrections and additions) on available programs, it helps me considerably
if you write the contribution in a somewhat formal manner -- makes it
easier for me to cut and paste it in.
Best wishes,
Julian
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I don't have any formal information on graduate programs in economics and
philosophy. However, various members of IEPS have sent me information
about their home institution's offerings which I have included below. In
addition to those listed below other possibilities you might wish to
explore in the U.S. are universities like the University of Chicago;
University of Wisconsin, Madison; MIT and UC San Diego. All these have
excellent separate philosophy and economics programs but unfortunately I
don't think any of them have formal programs in economics and philosophy
combined. The only place in the U.S. that I know of (though see the entry
under U. of Notre Dame below) that has a formal graduate program in
Economics and Philosophy is the University of Pittsburgh (they also have
excellent separate economics and philosophy departments there). Even if
you do not attend Pittsburgh they have one year pre-doctoral fellowships
available for philosophy students at other institutions who want to get a
background in economics as part of their dissertation -- friends I have
known who have had these have found them very worthwhile so you might want
to keep them in mind.
Apart from the entries listed below other places you might want to explore
in Europe are University College, London (Ken Binmore is there); Kings
College, London (it has a Ph.D. Program in Philosophy Of Social Science);
and, of course, the London School of Economics. It would also be
worthwhile contacting Philippe Van Parijs of the Chaire Hoover in Economic
and Social Ethics at the Universite catholique de Louvain to see what
programs they have there.
A good guide (called the Gourmet Guide) to graduate programs in philosophy
is put out each year by Brian Leiter. Although it does not have a lot on
economics and philosophy per se, it does have quite a bit about philosophy
of law and economics. It is also very useful for finding out where top
people you might be interested in working with are currently located. It
is accessible under NYU's philosophy page:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/leiter/
One other web resource you might find useful is this one which lists 3000
international university web pages.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
There's also a list of American (US) universities at
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
If, in your travels, you find out more information about economics and
philosophy programs around the world I would appreciate you emailing it to
me so I can add it to this list for others who might be interested.
Best, Julian Lamont
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In the U.S.:
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME:
The economics department at the University of Notre Dame specializes in
three fields: (1) Development economics, (2) Institutional economics, and
(3) Theory and method. Many faculty members and students belonging to the
third category specialize in economics and philosophy. Faculty members
with an interest in economics and philosophy include Philip Mirowski,
Charles Wilber, David Ruccio, and Esther-Mirjam Sent. They regularly
teach courses such as Economics and Philosophy, History of Economic
Thought, Political Economy, Feminist Economics, and Economics of Science.
In addition, the economics department has close ties with the history and
philosophy of science program at the University of Notre Dame. Students
entering in this program may pursue a joint degree in HPS and economics.
For more information, check out their Web pages:
http://www.nd.edu/~economic for the economics department
http://www.nd.edu:80/~reilly for the HPS program.
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In Europe:
ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND
St. Andrews has recently appointed John Broome (editor of the journal
*Economics and Philosophy*) to the philosophy department and it is
actively recruiting students in economics and philosophy. The Gourmet
Guide ranks the graduate philosophy program level with the 10th in the US
(that is, with Cornell, Indiana, Stanford, Arizona and North Carolina).
They teach a one-year MLitt course, followed by three years research to a
PhD. The Economics Department is apparently also improving rapidly and may
get the top grade in the next U.K national research assessment (as
Philosophy will). To give you some idea of subjects currently on offer
there, John Broome teaches a postgraduate unit in formal methods in
ethics, which is about applications of decision theory and game theory in
ethics. He also teaches an undergraduate unit in life and death, which
deals (amongst other things) with the way economists value life, and he
co-teaches (with V Bhaskar from Economics) an undergraduate course in
economics and ethics. The office of *Economics and Philosophy* is also now
at St. Andrews. For more information about the program contact John Broome
< [log in to unmask]>.
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY, ROTTERDAM
A number of philosophers and economists at Erasmus University (Maarten
Janssen, Arjo Klamer, Albert Jolink, Jack Vromen, and Uskali Maki) will
soon be starting a PhD programme in philosophy and economics and are
actively recruiting new students. They have raised a considerable amount
of money for an Institute in the context of which the programme will be
run. For further information contact: Uskali Maki <[log in to unmask]>.
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In Australia:
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
The ANU doesn't offer an M.A. course in Philosophy and Economics but
welcomes applications for Ph.D. places. Faculty include Geoffrey Brennan,
Bob Goodin, Frank Jackson (decision theory, game theory), Michael Smith
(decision theory, rationality), Natalie Stoljar (law and economics), Tom
Campbell (book on Adam Smith), Jeremy Shearmur (Hayek expert) and Philip
Pettit. The ANU graduate program has been placed second outside the U.S.
in the 1995-96 and the 1996-97 Gourmet Guides to graduate programs in
Philosophy. There is a special focus on applicants with an interest in the
broad area of social and political theory. For more information on the
program contact Philip Pettit <[log in to unmask]>
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QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
It would be remiss of me not to mention our small but happy band of
philosophers here at QUT. Jerry Gaus, myself and Christi Favor all have
strong research interests in philosophy and economics. Some of the members
of the economics department (and the political economists in the Arts
Faculty) have interests in philosophy as well and we have recently
instituted a joint economics and ethics undergraduate degree. In 1997 we
will have a Center for the Study of Ethics in Markets, Government and the
Professions which will be the focus for research and postgraduate
supervision in economics and philosophy. For more information on the
program contact Jerry Gaus <[log in to unmask]>
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