Jason Brennan
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| Born | 1979 |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona |
| Website | jasonfbrennan |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Georgetown University |
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Main interests
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Political philosophy · Applied ethics · Democratic theory |
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Notable ideas
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Ethics of voting |
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Jason F. Brennan (born 1979) is an American political scientist. He is currently the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
Brennan writes about democratic theory, the ethics of voting, competence and power, freedom, and the moral foundations of commercial society. He has been called "one of the world’s leading academic experts on voting and political knowledge".
Brennan grew up in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and Hudson, New Hampshire. He attended Case Western Reserve University and the University of New Hampshire as an undergraduate. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Arizona under the direction of David Schmidtz. From 2006–11, he was a research fellow in political science, and then Assistant Professor of Philosophy, at Brown University.
Brennan is the author of Markets without Limits, (Routledge), with philosopher Peter Martin Jaworski, Compulsory Voting: For and Against (Cambridge University Press), with political scientist Lisa Hill, Why Not Capitalism (Routledge), Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2011), and, with David Schmidtz, A Brief History of Liberty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
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