Andrew Cohen

Biography

Andrew I. Cohen is the Acting Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University.  His research interests are broadly focused in ethics and political philosophy. He has recently been working on whether citizens have reasons to support liberal political institutions, the value of democratic political institutions, and the ethics of friendship. Some sample publications: Co-editor of Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (New York: Blackwell, 2005), “Must Rights Impose Enforceable Positive Duties?” Journal of Social Philosophy (2004), “Examining the Bonds and Bounds of Friendship,” Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review XLII (2003), “Warmongers, Martyrs, and Madmen versus the Hobbesian Laws of Nature,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (Dec. 2002), "Virtues, Opportunities, and the Right to Do Wrong," Journal of Social Philosophy (Fall 1997).

Prof. Cohen studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Binghamton and earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was awarded several IHS fellowships during his graduate studies. After UNC he taught at schools in the southeast, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and the University of Oklahoma, before becoming associate director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics in 2003.

In his spare time, Cohen runs, travels, collects rubber animals for his car's dash, and continues his futile search for a decent slice of pizza in America's hinterlands.