Gerald Allan Cohen was a Canadian political philosopher who held the Quain Professorship of Jurisprudence at University College London and the Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. He was known for his work on Marxism and later on egalitarianism and distributive justice in normative political philosophy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Gerald Allan Cohen ( KOH-ən; 14 April 1941-5 August 2009) was a Canadian 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.
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He then attended McGill University, obtaining a BA in philosophy and political science, and the University of Oxford, where he studied under Gilbert Ryle (and was also taught by Isaiah Berlin) and obtained a BPhil in philosophy. == Academic career == 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.
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