A generalist, an intellectual, an aspiring birdwatcher. As a high schooler loafing around the library, I began avidly reading. What started as a naive fascination with psychology and Modern novels led to a Bachelors, Masters, then PhD in Philosophy. During graduate school, I was hired as a student researcher for the Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning Lab. My dissertation was on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whose writings drew me into the sciences, the arts, and markets to study how they contribute (or block) human flourishing. I am currently working on a second PhD in Economics at Claremont Graduate University, where I’m a student researcher for the Computational Justice Lab. I’m also an Economist and Fellow at the Cicero Institute.
I promote virtue, strive for excellence, and seek others doing the same.
Ryan Phillip Quandt 