Joshua Cohen

Biographic Data

ID3744684
NAMEJoshua Cohen
GIVEN NAMESJoshua
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN J
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-1227-8416
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS69
TOTAL CITATIONS394
AUTHOR COUNT65
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7

  • Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy

    Richard Tuck, Joshua Cohen et al.BOOKActive and Passive Citizens2024

  • Virtually screening adults for depression, anxiety, and suicide risk using machine learning and language from an open-ended interview

    Open AccessJennifer L Wright-Berryman, Jennifer Wright-Berryman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    It is feasible to use a virtual platform to simultaneously screen for depression, anxiety, and suicide risk using a 5-to-10-min interview. The NLP/ML models performed with good discrimination in the identification of depression, anxiety, and suicide risk. Although the utility of suicide risk classification in clinical settings is still undetermined and suicide risk classification had the lowest performance, the result taken together with the qual…

  • Doing Well by Doing Right

    Open AccessJoshua CohenARTICLEDaedalus2023

    Richard Locke, Ben Armstrong, Samantha Schaab-Rozbicki, and Geordie Young speculate that COVID-related challenges might lead firms to shift their assumptions about workers in ways that open up new political-economic possibilities, with benefits for workers in safety, compensation, and voice. I am skeptical about the idea of such COVID-induced learning. Drawing on an analysis of the costs of high turnover in the electronics supply chain, however, …

  • Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere

    Open AccessJoshua B Cohen, Joshua Cohen et al.ARTICLEConstellations2023Cited by: 2References: 3

    The Internet has democratized speech, creating a forum for public self-expression and connecting billions of speakers and listeners who never could have found each other before. The forum is not without faults, to be sure, but never before have so many people been afforded so many opportunities to speak, be heard, and share information with others. Just as printing made everyone a potential reader, today digitalisation is making everyone into a p…

  • Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s "Open Democracy"

    Open AccessJoanna Mansbridge, Joshua Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Deliberative Democracy2022

    Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms of direct democracy, to internet crowdsourcing, to representation through random selection to a citizens’ assembly: “representing and being represented in turn” (p. xvii). Her aim: to replace citizen consent with citizen power. The critics advance both praise and misgivin…

  • Somehow Getting Their Own Back on Hitler’: British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1960–1967

    Open AccessJoshua CohenARTICLEFascism2020References: 2

    This article considers the extent to which the Holocaust galvanized British antifascism in the 1960s. It explores whether the genocide surfaced in Jewish antifascists’ motivations and rhetoric but goes beyond this to assess the Holocaust’s political capital in wider antifascism and anti-racism. The article considers whether political coalitions were negotiated around Holocaust memory, for example, by analysing whether Jewish antifascism intersect…

  • Suicide, overdose and worker exit in a cohort of Michigan autoworkers

    Open AccessEllen A Eisen, Kevin T Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2020Cited by: 1References: 21

    Background In recent decades, suicide and fatal overdose rates have increased in the US, particularly for working-age adults with no college education. The coincident decline in manufacturing has limited stable employment options for this population. Erosion of the Michigan automobile industry provides a striking case study. Methods We used individual-level data from a retrospective cohort study of 26 804 autoworkers in the United Autoworkers-Gen…

  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation

    Open AccessJohn S Dryzek, André Bächtiger et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    Citizens can avoid polarization and make sound decisions

  • Economics after Neoliberalism

    Joshua Cohen, Joshua Cohen-UndifferentiatedBOOKEconomics after Neoliberalism2019

    How we can look beyond the tyranny of market logic in our public lives to reimagine the fundamentals of democracy.Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, Economics After Neoliberalism offers a powerful case for a new brand of economics?one focused on power and inequality and aimed at a more inclusive society. Three prominent economists?Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman?lead off with a vision for economic policy that stand…

  • Shining Inward: The Blind Seer, Fanny Crosby, and Education for the Blind in the Nineteenth Century

    Joshua CohenARTICLEJournal of Literary & Cultural…2017

    This article explores how nineteenth-century poet and hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby conceived of herself as a blind bard similar to John Milton. The blind seer originated in Greek tragedy as a figure associated with both guilt and prophecy. As one of the earliest pupils at the New York Institution for the Blind, Crosby followed Milton’s example by writing poetry. Her life not only reveals the lasting power of the trope of the blind seer, but also m…

  • Stages in Transition: Les Ballets Africains and Independence, 1959 to 1960

    Open AccessJoshua Cohen, Joshua I CohenARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2012

    Les Ballets Africains, the first globally touring African performance company, debuted in the United States as a private Paris-based troupe in 1959 and toured again in 1960 as National Ballet of the newly independent Republic of Guinea. Although rarely considered in scholarship, Les Ballets Africains’ history during these years—encompassing the company’s first U.S. appearances and reflecting the influence of its founder, Fodéba Keita—are signific…

  • The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays

    Joshua B Cohen, Joshua Cohen et al.BOOKArc of the Moral Universe and…2011

    In this collection of essays, Joshua Cohen locates ideas about democracy in three far-ranging contexts. First, he explores the relationship between democratic values and history. He then discusses democracy in connection with the views of defining political theorists in the democratic tradition: John Locke, John Rawls, Noam Chomsky, Juergen Habermas, and Susan Moller Okin. Finally, he examines the place of democratic ideals in a global setting, s…

  • Le projet de la démocratie radicale

    Joshua Cohen, Archon FungARTICLERaisons politiques2011References: 3

    Les démocrates radicaux cherchent à promouvoir des institutions qui soient à la fois participatives et délibératives. Le fonctionnement démocratique classique basé sur le gouvernement représentatif peine à respecter ces deux dimensions. Il est par ailleurs difficile d'améliorer simultanément celles-ci. La délibération et la participation constituent deux objectifs distincts, et les efforts visant à promouvoir l'une peuvent se faire au détriment d…

  • Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals

    Joshua CohenBOOKRousseau2010

    "In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'…

  • A Matter of Demolition?: Susan Okin on Justice and Gender

    Joshua CohenCHAPTERToward a humanist justice2009

    This chapter discusses three central preoccupations in Okin's writing: the relationship between feminism and traditional political theory, the relationship between the family and women's position in society, and the public/private distinction. Okin thought that much traditional political theory was rendered implausible once women were taken into account; she believed that principles of justice must be applied to the family itself; and she accepte…

  • Moral Pluralism and Political Consensus

    Joshua CohenCHAPTERPhilosophy, Politics, Democracy2009

  • A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism

    Owen M Fiss, OwenHG Fiss et al.BOOKWay Out2009

    Preface BY JOSHUA COHEN, JEFFERSON DECKER, AND JOEL ROGERS ix PART I: What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind? by OWEN FISS 3 PART II: Down by Law BY RICHARD FORD 47 Communities, Capital, and Conflicts BY TRACEY L. MEARES 51 Better Neighborhoods? BY ROBERT COLES 57 Beyond Moralizing BY J. PHILLIP THOMPSON 60 Creating Options BY JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD 68 Exit and Redevelopment BY GARY ORFIELD 74 Relocation Works BY JAMES E.ROSENBAUM 7…

  • Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays

    Open AccessJoshua B Cohen, Joshua Cohen et al.BOOKPhilosophy, Politics, Democracy2009

    Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies to address important practical problems. In this highly anticipated volume, Cohen draws on his work in these diverse topics to develop an argument about what he calls, following John Rawls, "demo…

  • VIIes Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie . Bamako, Mali, November 24–December 23, 2007

    Joshua CohenARTICLEAfrican Arts2009

  • A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Marshall and Caroline Mount Collection . Queensborough Community, College Art Gallery, Queens, New York, October 18, 2007–February 28, 2008

    Joshua B Cohen, Joshua CohenARTICLEAfrican Arts2009

  • Article Retiré: Sur ma religion » de John Rawls : comment les croyances religieuses de Rawls ont influencé sa philosophie politique

    Joshua B Cohen, Joshua Cohen et al.ARTICLERaisons politiques2009

    La découverte récente de deux textes de John Rawls sur la religion, notamment de son mémoire de licence consacré à une analyse du péché et de la foi, constitue une invitation à s'interroger sur l'influence de ses croyances religieuses sur sa philosophie politique. Joshua Cohen et Thomas Nagel s'attachent à démêler les relations complexes entre les convictions morales et sociales exprimées sous une forme religieuse dans le mémoire et les principal…

  • Truth and Public Reason

    Open AccessJoshua CohenARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2009Cited by: 30

  • How're We Doing? Reflections on Moral Progress in America

    Joshua B Cohen, Joshua Cohen et al.ARTICLEThe Good Society2008

    Research Article| January 01 2008 How're We Doing? Reflections on Moral Progress in America Joshua Cohen; Joshua Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joel Rogers Joel Rogers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2008) 17 (1): 13–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers; How're We Doing? …

  • Deliberative Democracy

    Open AccessJoshua CohenCHAPTERDeliberation, Participation and…2007

    Before getting to the matter at hand, I want to say how moving it is to read a set of papers that are committed so deeply to both democratic hopes and rational inquiry. Democratic commitments have not led the contributors to back off from the implications of their research, and commitments to rational inquiry have not provoked cynicism about political values. Putting aside the important lessons about deliberative democracy, there is much to be le…

  • Is there a Human Right to Democracy?

    Joshua CohenCHAPTERThe egalitarian conscience2006

    This essay answers ‘no’ to the question raised in its title. It affirms that democracy is a political order that produces all kinds of important benefits and that justice requires democracy. However, in contrast to G.A. Cohen’s insistence that facts not infect principles, it also calls for taking account of context, in this case at least: democracy is a demanding political ideal that would be inappropriate as an object of global responsibility. A…