Founded in 1981, the Social Philosophy and Policy Center focuses on the ethical aspects of public policy questions. Ethical analysis is informed by the results of economics, jurisprudence
and political science.
The Center sponsors a wide variety of programs in pursuit of its objectives. The Visiting Scholars Program brings outstanding
scholars to the campus to pursue research in philosophy and the social sciences.
The Center's interdisciplinary journal, Social Philosophy & Policy, is published by Cambridge University Press. The Center also sponsors a continuing series of conferences at the University
and elsewhere in the United States. Papers presented at these conferences are published in Social Philosophy & Policy or in other journals such as the University of Chicago Law Review. The Center's book series, Studies in Social Philosophy and Policy, is co-published with Transaction Press, Rutgers University.
