Ryan Muldoon
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Ryan Muldoon
@RyanPMuldoon
Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Founder of PPE Program, University at Buffalo.
Sumali Eylül 2016
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Graduate students doing work in PPE: Fame and Fortune can be yours!
6th Annual 2026 Gaus Memorial Essay Prize now accepting submissions!
Deadline: May 20
Winning Prize: $500 and a session dedicated to your essay at the PPE Society with 2 senior scholars commenting.
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@mattyglesias His Phil science is actually a model for his positive views in the open society and its enemies. The problem he takes on is the growth of knowledge with no fixed standards. This anticipates the post-Kitcher social epistemology of science. Lots of good stuff in there.
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Jake Monaghan doing cool work on the philosophy of the city: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Interested in orientation in social progress? Should you aim at what you think the ideal is, or should you focus on local improvements? Hankins, Muldoon and Wiens offer a nice framework for thinking this through.
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UB's PPE program secures $4 million federal grant to facilitate and study civil discourse, led by PI Justin Bruner
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UB PPE offers an incredible, thriving intellectual community. We will have 8 core PPE faculty, 10 postdocs, a dozen or so grad students, and a whole lot of engaged undergrads. Lots of talks, reading groups, lab discussions, and workshops. A really fun and creative environment.
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Community Engagement Fellow
ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/60763
Support our outreach and engagement activities across the university and in the city of Buffalo
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UB PPE is hiring again!
We have 4 postdoc positions for a Fall 26 start. Join our large and growing team!
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In a bit of personal news, I have now moved to the new AI and Society Department at UB! We're hosing a workshop Feb 26-27 and registration is FREE. Spread the word and come see the new and exciting things happening at the intersection of AI and Society!
engineering.buffalo.edu/ai-society/new…
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Bucking the national trend, we will have as many as *7* incoming PhD students this year. Consider applying. PhD applications are due Jan 2, MA applications due Jan 5. While you are doing one of those, you can also earn an Advanced Certificate in PPE.
buffalo.edu/cas/philosophy…
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Want to learn more about Xphi? We have leading faculty in the area and a lab manager to help with experimental design.
Want to learn about how to do serious computational modeling? We have a weekly PPE Lab where students, postdocs and faculty present models in progress.
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Finalizing PhD and MA applications? Interested in PPE? Apply to UB! We have an outstanding faculty, tons of research opportunities, lots of visitors, an army of postdocs, millions in grant funding to support innovative research, and a great, supportive group of grads.
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@Noahpinion Open Society liberalism seems like a natural place to go. Pro dynamism, pro democracy, pro social learning. An important 20th century tradition that is seeing a resurgence.
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Over the past decade, I've seen the Bay Area tech culture play around with a lot of moral and political ideas -- wokeness, rightism, EA, crypto-libertarianism, etc.
None of them ended up being very satisfactory.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes, woke went too far, but simply inverting it doesn't work.) • EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people. • There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics. Overall, "what is worthy and valuable?" feels like it's becoming more central.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…
This gives us a number of tools for studying intentional and endogenous social behavior change.
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Interested in the relationship between social norms and schemas? When we consider norm change, should we focus on revising a norm, or shifting the schema?
Justin Bruner and I have a paper that develops a framework for reasoning through these questions!
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@mbrendan1 Isn’t it that cursor-like ai just makes philosophy skills vastly more valuable and more applicable to a wide variety of domains?
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