Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis | |
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Burgis in 2021 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| 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) is an American socialist political commentator, author and adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University. He has written articles for Jacobin, The Daily Beast and MSNBC.
He graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in 2003, obtained an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University in 2005 and a Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2011.
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. He mainly uses the rigorous argumentation method of analytical philosophy to argue for the legitimacy of socialism and the problems of capitalism.