- Department: Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Gabriele Badano
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
This module investigates a range of key issues that cut across philosophy, politics, and economics, fleshing out the distinctive contribution that each discipline can provide.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
This module aims to explore how key issues in each of the three constituent disciplines of the PPE degree are inextricably linked to the other two in stimulating ways. Students will learn what the distinctive contributions of each discipline to complex debates can be and what insights the combination of the methods from the different disciplines can offer. In the process, they will develop and improve transferable skills including reading and synthesising interdisciplinary texts, analysing difficult problems, and thinking through complex material from a variety of angles.
The summative assessment will be a 3000 word essay, where students are encouraged to cover a number of topics relating to, for example, democracy, global priorities, well-being and happiness, poitical competition, social ontology, justice and finally the metaphysics of money from each of the three disciplines.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay 3000 words |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay 3000 words |
N/A | 100 |
Students will receive written timely feedback on their assessment in no later than 25 working days. They will have the opportunity to discuss their feedback during the module tutor’s feedback and guidance hours.
Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (New York: Penguin, 2014).
Bernardo Zacka, When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).