James Brusseau

Brusseau's scholarship focuses on philosophical decadence, which he defines as philosophers stepping aside from the task of making accurate theories about the larger world, and instead endeavoring to produce theories that in their turn provoke more theorizing. Within this framework, whether a philosopher is actually right about things becomes a secondary or derivative concern. The guiding purpose is to provoke more strictly philosophical discussion and study. As a result, the best philosophical idea directly equals the one producing the most subsequent philosophizing.

Brusseau attempts to locate decadence in the history of philosophy at Friedrich Nietzsche's appropriation by recent French philosophers including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. He calls the moment a "reversal" in philosophy's history, one where thought no longer exists to pursue truth, instead, truths exist to serve and accelerate thinking.{{Cite book|url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739109434|title = Decadence of the French Nietzsche}}

It is unclear from Brusseau's published work and lectures whether he considers this development to be negative, neutral or positive.

Brusseau's academic research in philosophical ethics explores the human experience of artificial intelligence in the areas of privacy, freedom, authenticity, and personal identity {{cite journal|author=James Brusseau |url=https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cepe_proceedings/vol2019/iss1/1/ |title=What to Do When Privacy Is Gone |journal=Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry (Cepe) Proceedings |publisher=Old Dominion University |date=2019-05-29 |volume=2019 |issue=1 |doi=10.25884/798y-hr54 |access-date=2021-09-21}} In the area of applied ethics, one study employs natural language processing to generate ethical evaluations of companies that function with artificial intelligence at the core of their operation,{{cite web|url=https://skytopstrategies.com/authors/532 |title=James Brusseau author biography |publisher=Skytop Strategies |access-date=2021-10-11}}{{cite journal|author=James Brusseau |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212 |title=AI human impact: toward a model for ethical investing in AI-intensive companies |journal=Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment |date=2021-06-01 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=1030–1057 |doi=10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212 |s2cid=234177141 |access-date=2021-09-11}} effectively using AI to apply AI ethics to AI.{{cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/news/2nd-annual-artificial-intelligence-information-accessibility-conference-highlights |title=AI Ethics Decentralised and Accelerated |publisher=The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |date=2021-09-28 |access-date=2021-09-11}}

In Business Ethics Workshop,{{cite web |url=http://www.flatworldknowledge.com//node/233286 |title=James Brusseau's The Business Ethics Workshop and Flat World Knowledge |website=www.flatworldknowledge.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030815/http://www.flatworldknowledge.com//node/233286 |archive-date=2016-03-04}} Brusseau focuses on philosophical approaches to the corporation's role in society, and ethical questions arising around branding and the creation of product reputation. The fabrication of consumer needs and consumer identity is also considered.{{cite web |url=http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/Brusseau-Podcast |title=James Brusseau's The Business Ethics Workshop and Flat World Knowledge {{!}} Flat World Knowledge |website=www.flatworldknowledge.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125233427/http://flatworldknowledge.com/Brusseau-Podcast |archive-date=2011-01-25}}

Brusseau's Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity: Philosophy and Animal RightsHeritage Radio, http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/dignity-pleasures-vulgarity-philosophy-and-animal-rights/ asks how animal studies reflect back to reveal human truths.KTEP/NPR, http://ktep.org/post/act-radio-james-brusseau

The documentary Wealth Inequality Workshop{{Cite web|url=https://eportfolio.pace.edu/view/view.php?id=111964|title=Wealth Inequality Workshop: Philosophy and Ethics of Wealth Distribution - Pace University ePortfolio}} unites utilitarianism, Rawls, Nozick, Bataille and Deleuze to explore theoretical dilemmas of wealth inequality. Brusseau argues that the philosophies of Bataille and Deleuze can be mobilized both to allow and limit wealth inequality.{{Cite web|url=http://www.economicrockstar.com/jamesbrusseau/|title = 089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the Accursed Share|date = 9 June 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://imhoppingmad.com/2016/06/20/dr-james-brusseau-on-inequality-philosophy/|title = Dr. James Brusseau on Inequality & Philosophy|date = 20 June 2016}}

• Isolated Experiences, State University of New York Press, 1996
• Decadence of the French Nietzsche, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
• Empire of Humiliation, Overflow, 2008
• Business Ethics Workshop, Flat World Knowledge, 2011
• Ethics Workshop, Flat World Knowledge, 2015
• Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity: Philosophy + Animal Rights, Overflow, 2016

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• {{Official website|http://jamesbrusseau.net/}}
• [https://eportfolio.pace.edu/user/view.php?id=13707 James Brusseau webpage at Pace University]

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