About Brendan
Brendan Hogan is Master Teacher in the Liberal Studies Program at NYU where he teaches the history of political thought and topics in philosophy of social science and political philosophy. He received his PhD in philosophy from The New School for Social Research and taught at Pacific Lutheran University before joining LSP here at NYU. Last year he taught for LSP at NYU- Florence and the year prior at NYU-Paris. He has also taught in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Denmark. He has published articles in political philosophy and philosophy of social science, and has presented papers in Poland, Italy, France, Brazil, Sweden, Iceland, Spain, and several other international venues. His research interests focus on the ways in which we understand human action, the role of rationality and imagination in realizing our power in political life, both individually and collectively, and normative questions regarding concepts of cosmopolitanism and political economy. In the pursuit of happiness he heads to MOMA, etc., the Corner Bistro, and YTTP.
