Jason F. Brennan (nascido em 1979) é um filósofo libertário e cientista político. Atualmente é professor de Estratégia, Economia, Ética e Políticas Públicas da McDonough School of Business e professor de Filosofia da Universidade de Georgetown.
Doutorou-se na Universidade do Arizona em Filosofia, sendo que, dedica as suas investigações, mormente, à filosofia política e à ética aplicadaContra a Democracia. por Orlando Coutinho, Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política, pag. 142].
Ele aborda os defeitos da Democracia em sua última obra: "Against Democracy", sugerindo uma Epistocracia.
Pensamento Brennan escreve sobre a teoria democrática, ética do voto, competência e poder, liberdade e fundamentos morais da sociedade do comércio. Ele foi chamado de "um dos maiores especialistas acadêmicos do mundo em votação e conhecimento político".
Seu trabalho centra-se na intersecção entre a filosofia política normativa e as ciências sociais empíricas, especialmente em questões sobre o comportamento dos eleitores, patologias da democracia e as consequências da liberdade. Ele argumenta que a maioria dos cidadãos tem a obrigação moral de não votar.
Livros e monografias Como autor e co-autor In Defense of Openness, (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Bas van der Vossen Against Democracy, (Princeton University Press, 2016) Political Philosophy: An Introduction, (Cato Institute, 2016) 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)
Artigos 2016 "When May We Kill Government Agents?: In Defense of Moral Parity," Social Philosophy and Policy. 2016 "Why Consequences Matter More: The Expressivist Objection to Privatization," Criminal Law and Philosophy. 2016 "A Libertarian Case for Mandatory Vaccination," Journal of Medical Ethics 2016 "Estimating the Cost of Adjunct Justice: A Case Study in University Business Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics 2015 "Markets without Symbolic Limits," Ethics. 2015 "Community, Diversity, and Equality in G. A. Cohen's Socialist Utopia," Analyse & Kritik. (Invited paper.) 2015 "Market Architecture: It's the How, Not the What," Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 15. 2014 "How Smart is Democracy? You Can't Answer that A Priori," Critical Review 26: 4–30. 2013 "Is Market Society Intrinsically Repugnant?" The Journal of Business Ethics 112:271–81. 2013 "The Right to Good Faith: How Crony Capitalism Delegitimizes the Administrative State," Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 11: 313–34. 2012 "Political Liberty: Who Needs It?" Social Philosophy and Policy 29: 1–27. Reprinted in Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing about Political Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2014) 2012 "Why Liberal States Must Accommodate Tax Resistors," Public Affairs Quarterly 26: 141–60. 2012 "For-Profit Business as Civic Virtue," The Journal of Business Ethics 106: 313–24. 2011 "The Right to a Competent Electorate'" Philosophical Quarterly 61, 700–24. Reprinted in Tom Lansford, ed., Opposing Viewpoints: Voting Rights (New York: Gale/Cengage2, 2015). 2011 "Condorcet's Jury Theorem and the Optimum Number of Voters." Politics 31:2, 55–62. 2010 "Scepticism about Philosophy." Ratio 23: 1–16. 2009 "Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87:4, 535–49. 2009 "Tuck on the Rationality of Voting." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 3: 1–5. 2008 "Beyond the Bottom Line: The Theoretical Goals of Moral Theorizing." Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 28: 277–96. 2008 "What if Kant Had Had a Cognitive Theory of the Emotions?" In Valerio Rohden, et al. (eds.), Recht und Freiden in der Philosophie Kants: Atken des X. Internationalen Kants-Kongresses (Berlin: De Gruyter), 219–28. 2007 "Modesty without Illusion." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75: 111–28. 2007 "Free Will in the Block Universe." Philosophia 35: 207–17. 2007 "Dominating Nature." Environmental Values 16: 513–28. 2007 "Rawls's Paradox." Constitutional Political Economy 18: 287–99. 2005 "Choice and Excellence: A Defense of Millian Individualism." Social Theory and Practice 31: 483–98. 2004 "Illiberal Liberals." Review Journal of Political Philosophy 2: 59–103. Translated into Turkish and reprinted in Liberal Düsünce [The Journal of Liberal Thought] 15 (2010), 61–89.
Ligações externas homepage oficial do Jason Brennan Bleeding Heart Libertarians – The Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog Jason Brennan no Learn Liberty "Sobre a ética do voto"
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