Geoffrey Brennan (born 1944) is an Australian philosopher. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language He is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
Trained as an economist, Brennan has collaborated extensively with Nobel Prize winner James M. Buchanan and became the first non-American president of the Public Choice Society in 2002. An economist is an expert in the Social science of Economics. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature James McGill Buchanan Jr (born October 3 1919 is an American Economist renowned for his work on Public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern Economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of Political science. When not teaching in the US Brennan is a faculty member in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia.
Brennan has published widely on rational actor theory, philosophy, and economics. Rational choice theory, also known as rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior He has held academic positions in several related departments at Australia National University and Virginia Tech. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic University in With Loren Lomasky he is winner of the American Philosophical Association's Gregory Kavka Prize in Political Philosophy for the paper "Is There a Duty to Vote?"
Brennan is an enthusiastic (but scarcely competent) golfer, and a semi-professional singer (for some years a national recitalist with the ABC). Loren Lomasky is an American Philosopher, currently a Professor of Political philosophy Policy and Law at the University of Virginia. The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for Philosophers in the United States.
Bibliography of works by Brennan
- The Power to Tax (1980) (with James M. Buchanan)
- The Reason of Rules (1985) (with James M. Buchanan)
- Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge University Press, 1993) (with Loren Lomasky). James McGill Buchanan Jr (born October 3 1919 is an American Economist renowned for his work on Public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 James McGill Buchanan Jr (born October 3 1919 is an American Economist renowned for his work on Public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Loren Lomasky is an American Philosopher, currently a Professor of Political philosophy Policy and Law at the University of Virginia.
- Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Theory (Cambridge University Press 1989) (ed. , with Loren Lomasky). Loren Lomasky is an American Philosopher, currently a Professor of Political philosophy Policy and Law at the University of Virginia.
- Democratic Devices and Desires (2000) (with Alan Hamlin)
- The Economy of Esteem (2004) (with Philip Pettit)
- Collected Works of James Buchanan (ed. Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945 is an Irish Philosopher and Political theorist. , with Hartmut Kliemt and Robert Tollison)
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