Joshua Cohen
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Joshua Cohen, Book Review: Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (by Vivek Chibber), Verso (March 13, 2013).
Joshua Cohen, The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen, Editors' note, Boston Review, Sept./Oct. 2010, p. 3.
Joshua Cohen, Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Joshua Cohen and Brink Lindsey, One-Handed Applause, A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Brink Lindsey, Bloggingheads.tv, October 6, 2009.
Joshua Cohen, Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nadel, Introduction, in A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith: with "On My Religion", John Rawls and Thomas Nadel (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Adventures with Student Plagiarism, A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, A Liberal Makes a Surprising Case for Preventive Detention,A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Josh Fears the GOP Will Run a Coded Racist Campaign in 2012, A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Which Movie Best Epitomizes the Bush Era? A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Condi Rice's Fraught Return to Stanford, A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Was Torture an Understandable Result of 9/11? A Dialogue Between Joshua Cohen and Daniel Drezner, Bloggingheads.tv, December 22, 2008.
Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel, Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?, 34 Philosophy and Public Affairs 147 (2006).
Joshua Cohen, Minimalism About Human Rights: the Best We Can Hope For?, 12 Journal of Political Philosophy 190 (2004). Reprinted in Theories of Rights, Ten Chin Liew, editor, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.
Joshua Cohen, The Arc of the Moral Universe, 26 Philosophy and Public Affairs 91 (1997). Reprinted in Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy, Tommy L. Lott, editor, Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
Joshua Cohen, Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy, in Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political, Seyla Benhabib, editor, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Reprinted in Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics, James Bohman and William Rehg, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997; Philosophy and Democracy: an Anthology, Thomas Christiano, editor, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003; Reprinted as Procedimiento y Sustancia en la Democracia Deliberativa 4 Metapolitica 24 (2000).
Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy, in The Good Polity: Normative Analysis of the State, Alan Hamlin and Phillip Petit, editors, New York: Blackwell, 1989. Reprinted in Contemporary Political Philosophy: an Anthology, Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit, editors, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Reprinted in Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics, James Bohman and William Rehg, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Reprinted in Democracy, David Estlund, editor, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, On Democracy, New York : Penguin Books, 1983.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA (Philosophy) Yale University 1973
MA (Philosophy) Yale University 1973
PhD (Philosophy) Harvard University 1979

Expertise:

Distributive Justice
Human Rights
Jurisprudence