Jason Stanley

Professor (Adjunct) of Law
(spring term)
Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995

B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990

Courses Taught
  • Propaganda, Ideology, and Democracy
  • Language and Power: Seminar
Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley is a Professor (Adjunct) at Yale Law School. He is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Professor at the University of Michigan and at Cornell University.

Stanley is the author of five books. His forthcoming book, Hustle: The Politics of Language, co-authored with David Beaver, is under contract with Princeton University Press. His work also includes How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Penguin Random House 2018); How Propaganda Works (Princeton University Press 2015), winner of the 2016 PROSE award for philosophy; Know How (Oxford University Press 2011); Knowledge and Practical Interests (Oxford University Press 2005), winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize; and Language in Context: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press 2007).