Jason Brennan

Jason F. Brennan
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Political philosophy · Democratic theory
Notable ideas	Ethics of voting
Influences David Schmidtz

Jason F. Brennan is 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 is known for advocating "bleeding-heart libertarianism," a political philosophy that combines the libertarian emphasis on economic and civil liberties with a left-wing emphasis on social justice.

Early life

Brennan grew up in Tewksbury, MA, and Hudson, NH. Brennan 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 2006–2011, he was a research fellow in political science, and then Assistant Professor of Philosophy, at Brown University.

Career

Brennan is the author of Markets without Limits, (Routledge), 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). His books Against Democracy (Princeton University Press) and Global Justice as Global Freedom (Oxford University Press), with Bas van der Vossen, are forthcoming. Brennan's work focuses on the intersection of normative political philosophy and the empirical social sciences, especially on questions about voter behavior, pathologies of democracy, and the consequences of freedom. He argues that most citizens have a moral obligation not to vote.

Brennan has appeared on the Fox Business Network show Stossel, Q&A with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, PBS, The Mark News, and Al Jazeera English.

Books and monographs

As author or co-author

• Global Justice as Global Freedom, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), with Bas von der Vossen
• Against Democracy, (Princeton University Press, forthcoming)
• Markets without Limits, (Routledge Press, 2015), with Peter Jaworski
• Why Not Capitalism?, (Routledge Press, 2014)
• Compulsory Voting: For and Against, (Cambridge University Press, 2014), with Lisa Hill
• 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)

See also

• American philosophy

External links

• Jason Brennan's homepage
• Bleeding Heart Libertarians – The Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog
• Brennan at 3 am Magazine
• Jason Brennan at Goodreads