FEATURED AUTHOR
Andrew Jason Cohen
Andrew Jason Cohen is Professor of Philosophy & PPE Program Coordinator at Georgia State University. He is the author of Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (Routledge, 2018) and Toleration (Polity, 2014) as well as numerous articles. Increasingly, he is looking at toleration (or the lack thereof) in our system of criminal law, in business ethics, & other fields of applied ethics as well as at issues relating to free speech and civil discourse.
Biography
Andrew Jason Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Founding Coordinator of the Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Georgia State University. He is the author of Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (Routledge, 2018) and Toleration (Polity, 2014) as well as articles in journals like Ethics, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and in new reference works like The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism. He has also done work with issues taking the individual agent as a source of normativity, individualism and communitarianism, the nature of exchange, and the nature and morality of waste. He plans now to focus on business ethics and criminal justice ethics, looking at both as matters of political ethics and taking toleration as the primary concern therein. He also blogs at http://www.bleedingheartlibertarians.com/.Education
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Phd, Georgetown University
BA, Emory University
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Social and Political Philosophy, especially toleration
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.