Joshua Cohen

Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Josh Cohen has been a member of the Apple University faculty since 2011. A political
philosopher, he has published extensively on democracy, free expression, distributive
justice, human rights, global justice, the relationship of justice and historical change,
and the nature and experience of work. Cohen is also a Distinguished Senior Fellow at
the School of Law, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Political
Science at UC-Berkeley, where he leads the Kadish Center Workshop in Law,
Philosophy, and Political Theory. He was previously the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor
of Ethics in Society and professor of philosophy and of law at Stanford University
(2006-2014), and the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of the Humanities and
professor of philosophy and of political science at MIT (1977-2006).
Cohen is author of On Democracy; Associations and Democracy; Philosophy, Politics,
Democracy; Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals; and The Arc of the Moral
Universe and Other Essays. He has been editor of Boston Review since 1991, and is
coeditor of the Norton Introduction to Philosophy. He gave the 2007 Tanner Lectures at
UC-Berkeley.