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I’m Jason Swadley, a doctoral student of political philosophy at Brown University. I’m studying the history of political thought, with an emphasis on the idea of self-interest from the Enlightenment through today.
You can find out more about me here. Please feel free to contact me.
Education
Brown University
Ph.D., Political Theory, 2009-Present
University of Chicago
M.A., Political Theory, 2008
Drury University
B.A., American Politics & Communication, 2007
Summa cum laude with Honors
Appointments
Adjunct Professor
Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, 2008-Present
Courses: American elections and interest groups; Introduction to American politics; Philosophy of peace and war
Fellowships and Awards
Institute for Humane Studies
Humane Studies Fellowship 2010-2011
Drury University
Trustee Scholar (highest university funding award) – 2003-2007
Ruth Bamberger Political Science Award – 2007
Outstanding Research Paper in Political Science – 2007
Outstanding Political Science Student – 2004, 2007
Papers
2010 - “The Crooked Timber in Society: Kant’s Unsocial Sociability”
Conference Paper, Midwest Political Science Association
2008 - “Immanuel Kant’s Project for Peace”
University of Chicago, Master’s Thesis, Supervised by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Professional activities
2009-2010 - Founding Editor, The Art of Theory
Launched a free online quarterly of political philosophy.
2008 - Discussant, “The ‘Grundlegung’ as Turn”
Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago
Response to an essay in progress about the role of a moral turn in the works of Immanuel Kant.
Interests
Liberalism, Enlightenment political thought, Political ethics, Self-interest
Languages
Basic German, French, and Spanish
