Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy; he has a secondary appointment in linguistics. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he taught at Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and Cornell University. He is the author of five books, How Fascism Works (Penguin Random House, 2018), How Propaganda Works (Princeton, 2015), Know How (Oxford, 2011), Language in Context (Oxford, 2007), and Knowledge and Practical Interests (Oxford, 2005), which won the 2007 American Philosophical Association Book Prize. He works in Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Political Theory. He is currently working on a book on political speech for Princeton University Press with the linguist David Beaver, provisionally titled Hustle: The Politics of Language.