Paul Gowder

About Me

Paul Gowder is a third-year Ph.D. student (Ph.D. candidate, even!) in political science at Stanford University. He studies normative political theory, with particular interests in democratic theory, analytic liberalism, jurisprudence, enlightenment theories of history (and their modern equivalents), formal modeling, and rational choice theory. He also has a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In a previous life, he was a civil rights lawyer, a legal aid lawyer, a volunteer community organizer, and a New Orleans music industry middleman. He blogs at http://uncommon-priors.com