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Joshua Cohen, MA, PhD

  • Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, and Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law
  • CDDRL Affiliated Faculty

Program on Global Justice
Encina Hall West, Room 404
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

(650) 723-0256 (voice)

Biography

Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy at Stanford University, where he also teaches at the d.school and helps to coordinate the Program on Liberation Technology. A political theorist trained in philosophy, Cohen has written extensively on issues of democratic theory—particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance—and global justice. Cohen is author of On Democracy (1983, with Joel Rogers); Associations and Democracy (1995, with Joel Rogers); Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2010); The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays (2011); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2011). Since 1991, he has been editor of Boston Review, a bi-monthly magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas. Cohen is currently a member of the faculty of Apple University.

publications

Books
December 2010

Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals

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Books
October 2009

Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays

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Books
June 2006

Is there a Human Right to Democracy?

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In The News

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d.school class sees Stanford students develop ICT solutions to healthcare challenges in Kenya

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Cohen leads Google.org course on global poverty and development

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Cohen gives Tanner lectures at Berkeley

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