Joshua Cohen's Overview

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  Name:

  Joshua Cohen

  Title:

  Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society

  Department:

  Political Science, Philosophy, Law

  Additional Appointments:

  MTL (Committee in charge), CDDRL, IPER

  Program Member:

  Yes

  Areas of Specialization:

  Political philosophy

  Email:

  jcohen57@stanford.edu

  Office Number:

  Encina West 404, Law School 309

  Short Bio:

  Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy, program leader for the Program on Global Justice at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a principal investigator in the programs on Human Rights and Liberation Technology. A political theorist trained in philosophy, Cohen has written on issues of democratic theory, particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance. Currently, Professor Cohen is concentrating his scholarship on issues of global justice, including the foundations of human rights, distributive fairness, and supranational democratic governance. A first volume of selected papers, Philosophy, Politics, Democracy, is being published by Harvard University Press (fall 2009); Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals is forthcoming from Oxford University Press; and a second volume of papers, The Arc of the Moral Universe and Others Essays will be published by Harvard in 2010. Cohen is also editor of Boston Review, a bi-monthly magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas, and a regular on bloggingheads.tv.
  

  Additional Information/ Links:

  http://www.stanford.edu/group/polisci/faculty/cohen.html

  http://bostonreview./net

  http://bloggingheads.tv

  http://cddrl.stanford.edu/people/joshuacohen/