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Ben Burgis | |
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| Burgis in 2021 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 44–45) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Miami |
| Thesis | Truth is a One-Player Game: A Defense of Monaletheism and Classical Logic (2011) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
Ben Burgis (born 1980) [1] is an American socialist political commentator,author and adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University. He has written articles for Jacobin , [2] [3] The Daily Beast [4] [5] and MSNBC. [6]
He graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in 2003, [1] obtained an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University in 2005 [7] and a Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2011. [8]
Ben Burgis explains socialism primarily based on the analytical Marxist tradition of G. A. Cohen,and focuses on reconstructing Cohen's moral and logical critique of capitalism in a modern way. [9] [10] He mainly uses the rigorous argumentation method of analytical philosophy to argue for the legitimacy of socialism and the problems of capitalism. [11] [12] [3] [13]
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