Joshua B Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 644868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua B Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua B |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8743-2233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Charge towards green finance ignores risks of nature commodification: Evidence from the UK 's climate and nature recovery policy landscape
The urgent need for up‐scaled finance has become central to the climate and nature recovery discourses worldwide. With most existing investments coming from public sources, closing the financing gap has become the overpowering argument for calling for private investments into nature restoration and conservation. This paper aims to evidence empirically the alarmingly little attention that is being paid, in the policy sphere, to the risks of nature…
Experimenting with Water-Focused Participatory Research Methods
Recent decades have seen a transformation in how water and human-water interrelations are conceptualized in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Such adaptation of theory has been tied to an interest in developing transdisciplinary water research methodologies, particularly in projects focused on practical outcomes. Nonetheless, this article's authors note an incongruence in how such advances in theory are often not actually applied …
Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere
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…
Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond
We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with 'thingifying' processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person-like kin , we describe how rivers the world over have been re-done primarily as thing -amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciproca…
Challenges in the implementation of responsible research and innovation across Horizon 2020
In the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the conc…
Looking beyond the ‘horizon’ of RRI: Moving from discomforts to commitments as early career researchers
KEYWORDS: Responsible innovationresponsible research and innovationearly career researchersreflectionfuture
The social lab as a method for experimental engagement in participatory research
How does the Social Lab methodology support participatory research? This paper provides an evidence-based analysis of experiences of 19 implemented Social Labs applying experiential learning cycles on the question of how to induce Responsible Research and Innovation in the Horizon2020 research funding scheme of the European Commission and beyond. It looks at the potentials of Social Labs to allow participation in research and innovation addressin…
Technological advancement and modes of existence in medicinal plant research
This paper examines the practices and knowledge of kruiedokters [herb doctors] and a phytochemist engaging with healing properties of plants found in Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province. Technological and theoretical advancements in the natural and social sciences toward more holistic or integrated analyses of plant medicines hold exciting potential for collaboration "across" knowledges. However, the paper raises concern for what happens to conce…
The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays
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…
Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays
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…
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
Article Retiré: Sur ma religion » de John Rawls : comment les croyances religieuses de Rawls ont influencé sa philosophie politique
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…
Medicine from the Father: Bossiesmedisyne, people, and landscape in Kannaland
In the rural Western Cape local municipality of Kannaland, the word 'bossiesmedisyne' (lit. bushes medicine), refers to plant and sometimes animal material used to treat and alleviate a wide range of health problems, ranging from colds to cancer. Based on three months of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper advances the argument that the different kinds of healing thesemedicines provide are inseparable from the sociocultural and environmental contex…
How're We Doing? Reflections on Moral Progress in America
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? …
Theoria Referees
The Importance of Philosophy: Reflections on John Rawls
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoshua CohenLeon and Anne Goldberg Professor of the Humanities at MIT Chair of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy Cohen is also Editor of Boston Review
Money, Politics, Political Equality
Igualitarismo, internacionalização e cidadania
O artigo busca argumentar que a internacionalização não vai contra o igualitarismo como projeto político, mas que este só poderá sobreviver a ela se se despir de sua forma social-democrata tradicional. Após apresentar um breve quadro político geral de uma forma alternativa de igualitarismo, descreve algumas políticas promotoras de igualdade que podem ser desenvolvidas num mundo internacionalizado e, finalmente, apresenta algumas implicações deste…
Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of…
The Arc of the Moral Universe
My Utopia or Yours
Associations and Democracy
Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, normative democratic theory has focused principally on three tasks: refining principles of justice, clarifying the nature of political justification, and exploring the public policies required to ensure a just distribution of education, health care, and other basic resources. Much less attention has been devoted to examining the political institutions and social arrangements that might pl…
Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky
In his first published essay on politics, Noam Chomsky announced his conviction that ‘[i]t is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.’ Acting on that conviction, Chomsky has long supplemented his work in linguistics with writing on contemporary political affairs, focusing principally on
Committees of the American Political Science Association
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An Epistemic Conception of Democracy
The Arc of the Moral Universe
Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond
We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with 'thingifying' processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person-like kin , we describe how rivers the world over have been re-done primarily as thing -amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciproca…
Medicine from the Father: Bossiesmedisyne, people, and landscape in Kannaland
In the rural Western Cape local municipality of Kannaland, the word 'bossiesmedisyne' (lit. bushes medicine), refers to plant and sometimes animal material used to treat and alleviate a wide range of health problems, ranging from colds to cancer. Based on three months of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper advances the argument that the different kinds of healing thesemedicines provide are inseparable from the sociocultural and environmental contex…
Experimenting with Water-Focused Participatory Research Methods
Recent decades have seen a transformation in how water and human-water interrelations are conceptualized in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Such adaptation of theory has been tied to an interest in developing transdisciplinary water research methodologies, particularly in projects focused on practical outcomes. Nonetheless, this article's authors note an incongruence in how such advances in theory are often not actually applied …
Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere
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…
My Utopia or Yours
Technological advancement and modes of existence in medicinal plant research
This paper examines the practices and knowledge of kruiedokters [herb doctors] and a phytochemist engaging with healing properties of plants found in Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province. Technological and theoretical advancements in the natural and social sciences toward more holistic or integrated analyses of plant medicines hold exciting potential for collaboration "across" knowledges. However, the paper raises concern for what happens to conce…
Freedom and Independence: A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence.
An Epistemic Conception of Democracy
Committees of the American Political Science Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky
In his first published essay on politics, Noam Chomsky announced his conviction that ‘[i]t is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.’ Acting on that conviction, Chomsky has long supplemented his work in linguistics with writing on contemporary political affairs, focusing principally on
Associations and Democracy
Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, normative democratic theory has focused principally on three tasks: refining principles of justice, clarifying the nature of political justification, and exploring the public policies required to ensure a just distribution of education, health care, and other basic resources. Much less attention has been devoted to examining the political institutions and social arrangements that might pl…
My Utopia or Yours
Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of…
The Arc of the Moral Universe
Igualitarismo, internacionalização e cidadania
O artigo busca argumentar que a internacionalização não vai contra o igualitarismo como projeto político, mas que este só poderá sobreviver a ela se se despir de sua forma social-democrata tradicional. Após apresentar um breve quadro político geral de uma forma alternativa de igualitarismo, descreve algumas políticas promotoras de igualdade que podem ser desenvolvidas num mundo internacionalizado e, finalmente, apresenta algumas implicações deste…
Money, Politics, Political Equality
The Importance of Philosophy: Reflections on John Rawls
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoshua CohenLeon and Anne Goldberg Professor of the Humanities at MIT Chair of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy Cohen is also Editor of Boston Review
Theoria Referees
How're We Doing? Reflections on Moral Progress in America
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? …
Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays
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…
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
Article Retiré: Sur ma religion » de John Rawls : comment les croyances religieuses de Rawls ont influencé sa philosophie politique
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…
Medicine from the Father: Bossiesmedisyne, people, and landscape in Kannaland
In the rural Western Cape local municipality of Kannaland, the word 'bossiesmedisyne' (lit. bushes medicine), refers to plant and sometimes animal material used to treat and alleviate a wide range of health problems, ranging from colds to cancer. Based on three months of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper advances the argument that the different kinds of healing thesemedicines provide are inseparable from the sociocultural and environmental contex…
The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays
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…
Technological advancement and modes of existence in medicinal plant research
This paper examines the practices and knowledge of kruiedokters [herb doctors] and a phytochemist engaging with healing properties of plants found in Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province. Technological and theoretical advancements in the natural and social sciences toward more holistic or integrated analyses of plant medicines hold exciting potential for collaboration "across" knowledges. However, the paper raises concern for what happens to conce…
Challenges in the implementation of responsible research and innovation across Horizon 2020
In the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the conc…
Looking beyond the ‘horizon’ of RRI: Moving from discomforts to commitments as early career researchers
KEYWORDS: Responsible innovationresponsible research and innovationearly career researchersreflectionfuture
The social lab as a method for experimental engagement in participatory research
How does the Social Lab methodology support participatory research? This paper provides an evidence-based analysis of experiences of 19 implemented Social Labs applying experiential learning cycles on the question of how to induce Responsible Research and Innovation in the Horizon2020 research funding scheme of the European Commission and beyond. It looks at the potentials of Social Labs to allow participation in research and innovation addressin…
Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere
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…
Riverkin: Seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the United Kingdom and beyond
We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with 'thingifying' processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person-like kin , we describe how rivers the world over have been re-done primarily as thing -amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciproca…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)