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G. A. Cohen

G. A. Cohen
Born (1941-04-14)14 April 1941
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died 5 August 2009(2009-08-05) (aged 68)
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Marxism, analytic philosophy, egalitarianism
Main interests
Political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of history, social theory
Notable ideas
Strict difference principle, egalitarian ethos

Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen, FBA (14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Marxist 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.

Born into a communist family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford (BPhil, philosophy) where he studied under Isaiah Berlin and Gilbert Ryle.

Cohen was assistant lecturer (1963–1964), lecturer (1964–1979) then reader (1979–1984) in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, before being appointed to the Chichele chair at Oxford in 1985. Several of his students, such as Simon Caney, Alan Carter, Cécile Fabre, Will Kymlicka, John McMurtry, David Leopold, Michael Otsuka, Seana Shiffrin, Jonathan Wolff and Michael E. Rosen have gone on to be important moral and political philosophers in their own right, while another, Ricky Gervais, has pursued a successful career in comedy.


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