Ian Olasov is a recent graduate of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches philosophy at New York University. His research interests are broad, but all address questions about speech in the public interest. His book Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions was published in 2020 with St. Martin’s Press, and he co-edited, with Lee McIntyre and Nancy McHugh, A Companion to Public Philosophy (Wiley, 2022). He is the current president of the Public Philosophy Network, and is the founder and organizer of Brooklyn Public Philosophers, a public philosophy event series for a general audience.
He can be contacted at ianolasov@gmail.com. His published works can be found at: https://ianolasov.com/