Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley
Born	1969 (age 54–55)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	State University of New York, Stony Brook; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Meaning and Metatheory (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Stalnaker
Influences	Peter Ludlow; Timothy Williamson;
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Epistemology; philosophy of language; political philosophy;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy; pragmatism;
Institutions	Cornell University; University of Michigan; Rutgers University; Yale University;
Notable works	How Fascism Works (2018)
Website	jason-stanley.com

Jason Stanley (born 1969) is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is best known for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, which often draw upon and influence other fields, including linguistics and cognitive science. He has written for a popular audience on the New York Times philosophy blog The Stone. In his more recent work, Stanley has brought tools from philosophy of language and epistemology to bear on questions of political philosophy, especially in his 2015 book How Propaganda Works.

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