===================== HES POSTING ====================== [NOTE: The following may be of interest to several on this list. If you have suggested additions to it, please post them to the original sender -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 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. ------------------------------ 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]>. ----------------------------------- 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]> -------------------------------------------------- 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]> ================ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ================ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]