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Jason Brennan

Jason F. Brennan (born 1979 ) is an American philosopher and political scientist . The Washington Post named Brennan a leading scholar on elections and civic education .

Life

Brennan graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Philosophy. He received his Masters and became a Ph.D. in 2007. in Philosophy from the University of Arizona . He then taught philosophy at Brown University .

Today he is an adjunct professor of strategy , economics , ethics and public policy at Georgetown University in Washington , which honored his early career internally with the Distinguished Associate Professor Award, and a research professor at the University of Arizona.

Brennan is married with two sons and lives in the suburbs of his university town of Washington, DC

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Brennan deals with democratic theory , the ethics of elections, competence and power, freedom and moral issues of a commercial society. His book Against Democracy claims that voters are not informed enough to make a reasonable choice and discusses alternative forms of power-building, e.g. B. by so-called "informed elites" (cf. philosophical rule ). It has been translated into 14 languages. The German edition reached number 33 on the Spiegel bestseller lists .

In German

  • Against democracy - Why we shouldn't leave politics to the unreasonable . Ullstein, 2017, ISBN 978-3-550-08156-9

In English

  • Global Justice as Global Freedom . With Bas van der Vossen. Oxford University Press, announced
  • Against Democracy . Princeton University Press, 2016
  • Markets without Limits . With Peter Jaworski. Routledge Press, 2015
  • Why Not Capitalism? Routledge Press, 2014
  • Compulsory Voting: For and Against . With Lisa Hill. Cambridge University Press, 2014
  • Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know . Oxford University Press, 2012
  • The Ethics of Voting . Princeton University Press, 2011
  • A Brief History of Liberty . Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilya Somin: Brexit, “Regrexit,” and the impact of political ignorance [updated with brief comment on post-referendum survey data]. June 26, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Q&A with Jason Brennan. (No longer available online.) Georgetown University on May 7, 2014, archived from the original on April 6, 2017 ; Retrieved April 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / msb.georgetown.edu
  3. ^ A b Distinguished Associate Professor Awards. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Biographical Information. georgetown.edu, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Cordula Meyer: "The voters are hobbits". Interview. Chargeable! Spiegel Online , April 5, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017 .
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SURNAME Brennan, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brennan, Jason F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1979