The Department of Political Economy & Moral Science offers an outstanding and rigorous undergraduate major in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law. We are building a diverse interdisciplinary community of innovative philosophers, political scientists and economists to enage in rigorous and original work on both theoretical and practical problems, including the relation of moral norms and markets, the evolution of social cooperation, self-organization and social complexity, justice, democracy and diversity, as well as social and environmental policy. The idea of "moral science" we trace back to Hume: normative inquiry has to begin with what humans and their social ways of living are really like.
The Department of Political Economy & Moral Science is premised on the conviction that collaboration and deliberation among diverse perspectives (including disciplinary, methodological, ideological and identity) provide for greater insights into social, political and economic life and their problems than homogenous research programs. The Department cherishes the academic freedom of faculty and students to learn from each other by exploring their perspectives and their differences; to challenge each other so that we may better learn from each other
The Department of Political Economy and Moral Science has no relation to the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom or its mission.
