Joshua Cohen
Political Philosopher
Apple University, "University of California, Berkeley", Boston Review
About Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen is a political philosopher. He has written on issues of democratic theory, freedom of expression, religious freedom, political equality, democracy and digital technology, good jobs, and global justice. His books include On Democracy (with Joel Rogers); Democracy and Associations (with Joel Rogers); Philosophy, Politics, Democracy; Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals; and The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays. He is co-editor of the Norton Introduction to Philosophy. Cohen taught at MIT (1977-2005), Stanford (2005-2014), is currently on the faculty at Apple University, and is Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. Cohen held the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in 2002-3; was Tanner Lecturer at UC Berkeley in 2007; gave the Comte Lectures at LSE in 2012; and the Annual Lecture on Ethics and AI at Oxford in 2024. He is co-editor-in-chief of Boston Review.
Events with Joshua Cohen
Glenn Gould’s Variations and the Human Qualities that Foster Remarkable Human Creativity
Joshua Cohen is a professor of philosophy, and has taught at MIT, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the faculty of Apple University, established by Steve Jobs...