Geoffrey Brennan

Biographic Data

ID493518
NAMEGeoffrey Brennan
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey
FAMILY NAMEBrennan
SIGNATUREBRENNAN G
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0003-2045-757X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS71
TOTAL CITATIONS400
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX10

  • A machine-learning approach clarifies interactions between contaminants of emerging concern

    Open AccessJian Chen, Bin Wang et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Real world theory, complacency, and aspiration

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2021

  • Self-esteem and social esteem

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEHuman Affairs2020Cited by: 1

    In Part III of The Theory of Moral Sentiments , Adam Smith declares that people desire to be both esteemed and to be esteem-worthy, but that the latter desire both does and ought to take priority. The main object of this paper is to challenge that priority claim—mainly in its descriptive aspect. If that claim were true, then: agents would be at pains to eliminate any distortions in their self-evaluations; and the effects of the size (especially o…

  • On ‘Cooperation’

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2018

    The term ‘cooperation’ is widely used in social and political and biological and economic theory. Perhaps for this reason, the term takes on a variety of meanings and it is not always clear in many settings what aspect of an interaction is being described. This paper has the modest aim of sorting through some of this variety of meanings; and exploring, against that background, when and why cooperation (in which sense) might be of value, or be req…

  • Democracy in Chains

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2018Cited by: 4References: 1

    Book Review| September 01 2018 Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. By MacLean, Nancy. New York: Viking, 2017. xxxii; 334 pp. $18.00. Jennifer Burns Jennifer Burns Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 640–648. h…

  • Conservative Value

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEThe Monist2016

    We distinguish three forms of conservatism and focus attention on the form in which conservatives identify and recognize a value not recognized by nonconservatives. Starting from an attempt to rescue conservative values by G.A. Cohen, we provide an analysis of the requirements of such a conservative position and a formulation in terms of state-relative evaluation.

  • What’s to be Explained? And is it so Bad?

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanCHAPTERThrough a Glass Darkly2015

    4. What's to be Explained?And is it so Bad?

  • Buchanan’s anti-conservatism

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2015Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Olson and imperceptible differences

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2015Cited by: 2References: 11

  • The reason for ‘The Reason of Rules’

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2014

  • Comprehending conservatism

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2014Cited by: 3References: 3

    Jan-Werner Müller provides a four-dimensional framework for comprehending conservatism as a political ideology. We focus on conservatism as a political philosophy, rather than an ideology, and provide more detailed analysis in order to re-assess Müller

  • Explaining Norms

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.BOOKExplaining Norms2013

    Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In 'Explaining Norms', four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work

  • Conservatism and radicalism

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2013References: 2

  • James Buchanan

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2013

  • The political economy of public debt

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2012References: 4

  • Politics-as-exchange and The Calculus of Consent

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2012Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The Division of Epistemic Labour

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2010Cited by: 1

    The paper mobilizes Adam Smith’s treatment of the division of labour in relation to the production, consumption and exchange of knowledge. One aspect of this mobilization deals with the epistemic demands that exchange makes on its participants. The other deals with increasing returns in the provision of knowledge itself, treating knowledge creation as just another example of specialization and exchange. These two aspects come together in relation…

  • Ppe

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPolitics Philosophy & Economics2010Cited by: 1

    One way of responding to the question of what PPE is involves mobilizing the tools that PPE involves. That is the exercise attempted in this article. The object is to use PPE as a method to analyze PPE as a subject matter. PPE is, whatever else, an interdisciplinary enterprise; so the point of departure involves analyzing the role and properties of disciplines within the institutional organization of enquiry. The basic idea is that enquiry is gov…

  • Ppe

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEPolitics Philosophy & Economics2010

  • Constitutions As Expressive Documents

    Geoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of political…2009

    This article looks at constitutions as expressive documents. Two concepts are the main focus of this article: the constitution and the notion of expressiveness. The article tries to clarify these concepts by appeal of a contrast, which will be between a constitution as a legal document and the more general idea of a constitution, which is envisaged by the Constitutional Political Economy (CPE). It also tries to clarify the notion of expressive ac…

  • Hobbes’s Samuel

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, H Geoffrey BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2009Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Politics and Process

    Geoffrey Brennan, H Geoffrey Brennan et al.BOOKPolitics and Process2009

  • Lessons for Ethics From Economics?

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPhilosophical Issues2008

  • Regulation and revenue

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H Brennan et al.ARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2008References: 5

  • Homo economicus and homo politicus

    Open AccessGeoffrey Brennan, Geoffrey H BrennanARTICLEPublic Choice2008Cited by: 3References: 7