Philosopher
G. A. Cohen
Overview
Gerald Allan Cohen ( KOH-ən; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. He was known for his work on Marxism, and later, egalitarianism and distributive justice in normative political philosophy.
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Philosophers who discussed G. A. Cohen
- Gilbert Ryle
- Roger Scruton
- John Rawls
- Isaiah Berlin
- Louis Althusser
- Ted Honderich
- Will Kymlicka
- Two Concepts of Liberty
- Michael Otsuka
- Michael E. Rosen
Ideas G. A. Cohen discusses
- Gilbert Ryle
- Egalitarianism
- The Independent
- John Rawls
- Distributive justice
- Western philosophy
- Isaiah Berlin
- Karl Marx
- Labor theory of value
- Philosophy of history
- Marxism
- The Guardian
- Oxford
- Political philosophy
- University of Edinburgh
- Jews
- Robert Nozick
- Stanford University
- Ronald Dworkin
- Social theory
- University of Oxford
- Gifford Lectures
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Times
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.