Ryan Muldoon
Ryan Muldoon
@ryanmuldoon.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy and Director of PPE, University at Buffalo.
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!
June 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Ryan Muldoon
The liberal acknowledges and lives comfortably among many incommensurable status games. The authoritarian is intent on reducing them all down to one.
January 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
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...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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 Graduate Summer Workshop
Info on the PPE Summer Workshop
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January 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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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.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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.

www.buffalo.edu/cas/philosop...
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,...
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December 13, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Ryan Muldoon
Broaden your toolkit, philosophers!
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
link.springer.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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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November 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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
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...
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November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/53231
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...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
November 20, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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.
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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!
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.
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July 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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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PPE Graduate Summer Workshop
Info on the PPE Summer Workshop
www.chapman.edu
January 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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

www.buffalo.edu/cas/philosop...
November 8, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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?
October 10, 2023 at 9:35 PM