ANDREW JASON COHEN Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Curriculum Vitae, October 2018 ANDREW JASON COHEN Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University [email protected] PO Box 3994 Atlanta, GA 30302-3994 Web: andrewjasoncohen.academia.edu EDUCATION Georgetown University Ph.D., Philosophy (1997) M.A., Philosophy (1994) Emory University B.A., Economics and Philosophy (1989) ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Founding Coordinator, Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2016-present) Affiliate Faculty Member of the Center for Access to Justice of GSU College of Law (2018-present) Affiliate Faculty Member of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics (2005-present) Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (2008-present) Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (Assistant Professor 2005-2008) Visiting Professor of Ethics, McDonough School of Business Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Fall 2015) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religion James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia (2000-2005) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1997-2000) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Social and Political Philosophy AREAS OF COMPETENCE Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Economics; Business Ethics; Criminal Justice Ethics; Medical Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Normative Ethical Theory; History of Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; Free Will; Philosophy of Religion PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived. NY: Routledge, 2018. Reviewed by Peter de Marneffe on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 4/3/2018 (http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/toleration-and-freedom-from-harm-liberalism-reconceived/) Discussion on Pea Soup’s NDPR Discussion Forum (http://peasoup.us/2018/05/ndpr-forum- on-andrew-j-cohens-toleration-and-freedom-from-harm/). Cohen, page 2 PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS (CONTINUED) Toleration. Oxford: Polity Press, 2014. Reviewed by Peter Balint (Australasian Journal of Philosophy Volume 92 No. 4, October 2014: 816-817). Reviewed by Aref Ebadi (Political Studies Review Volume 13 No. 2, May 2015: 243) Interview on Free Thoughts Podcast, September 2015 (http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/toleration#.pjh6ccu:hBpT) Author Meets Critics session at Central APA 2016. Symposium in Reason Papers Volume 38, No. 2, Winter 2016, with response to comments by Emily M. Crookston and David Kelley. PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “What We Should Tolerate Internationally” (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming) “Harm: An Event-Based Feinbergian Account.” The Value and Limits of Academic Speech, Ed. Donald Downs and Chris W. Surprenant. NY: Routledge Press, 2018: 115-135. “Why Paternalists and Social Welfarists Should Oppose Criminal Drug Laws” (coauthored with William Glod). Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Ed. Chris W. Surprenant. NY: Routledge Press, 2018: 225-241) Note: William Glod and I were equal partners in writing this paper. “The Harm Principle and Parental Licensing.” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 43, No. 4, October 2017: 825-849. “Psychological Harm and Free Speech on Campus.” Society, Volume 54 No. 2, July/August 2017: 320-325. (Available at http://rdcu.be/tXQt.) “Response to Emily M. Crookston and David Kelley” (symposium on Toleration). Reason Papers, Volume 38, No. 2, Winter 2016: 27-38. “Contemporary Liberalism and Toleration.” Cambridge Companion to Liberalism, Ed. Steve Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015: 189-211. “Toleration.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. LaFollette, Hugh. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013: 5150-5160. “Exchanges and Relationships: On Hard-headed Economics Capturing the Soft Side of Life.” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 38 No. 2, April 2012: 231-257. “A Conceptual and (Preliminary) Normative Exploration of Waste.” Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 27 No. 2, Summer 2010: 233-273. (Also printed in Moral Obligation, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010: 233-273). “Existentialist Voluntarism as a Source of Normativity.” Philosophical Papers, Volume 37 No. 1, March 2008: 89-129. “What the Liberal State Should Tolerate Within Its Borders.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 37 No. 4, December 2007: 479-513. “What Toleration Is.” Ethics, Volume 115 No. 1, October 2004: 68-95. “Defending Liberalism Against the Anomie Challenge.” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 30 No. 3, July 2004: 391-427. Cohen, page 3 PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (CONTINUED) “Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Asocialism.” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 34 Nos. 2- 3, September 2000: 249-261. (Also in Liberalism: New Essays on Liberal Theory, ed. Narveson, Jan and Susan Dimock, Norwelt, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000: 101-113). “Does Communitarianism Require Individual Independence?” The Journal of Ethics, Volume 4 No. 3, July 2000: 283-305. “On Universalism: Communitarians, Rorty, and (‘Objectivist’) ‘Liberal Metaphysicians’.” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38 No. 1, Spring 2000: 39-75. “In Defense of Nietzschean Genealogy.” Philosophical Forum, Volume 30 No. 4, December 1999: 269-288. “Communitarianism, ‘Social Constitution,’ and Autonomy.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 80 No. 2, June 1999: 121-135. “A Defense of Strong Voluntarism.” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35 No. 3, July 1998: 251-265. PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW “A Bleeding Heart Libertarian View of Inequality” (in progress, commissioned for Ethics in Practice, 5th Edition, Ed. Hugh Lafollette, Blackwell Publishing) “The Harms of Silencing: From Pierre Bayle to The New Jim Crow” (in progress, for Social Philosophy and Policy Volume 37, No, 2, 2020) “The Harm Principle and Corporations” (in progress) “Toleration and Business Ethics” (in progress) PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS Autonomy (Andrew Sneddon, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013). Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 13 No. 6, 2016 (764-767). The Justification of Religious Violence (Steve Clarke, John Wiley & Sons, 2014). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 94 No. 1, 2016 (206). Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality. (John Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2002). Utilitas, Volume 16 No. 1, March 2004 (115-117). Liberalism Beyond Justice (John Tomasi, Princeton University Press, 2001). Humane Studies Review, April 2002 (on-line journal; no longer available). A Case for Conservatism (John Kekes, Cornell University Press, 1998). Ethics, Volume 111 No. 2, January 2001 (411-414). PUBLICATIONS: BLOGS Bleeding Heart Libertarians (bleedingheartlibertarians.com). Regular Contributor and Founding Member. Contributions also at Learn Liberty (learnliberty.org), PeaSoup (www.peasoup.us), Heterodox Academy Blog (heterodoxacademy.org/blog/), and Open Inquiry Project (openinquiryproject.org/blog). Cohen, page 4 PRESENTATIONS “The Harms of Silencing: From Pierre Bayle to The New Jim Crow.” Freedom of Thought: Social Philosophy and Policy Center & Liberty Fund Conference, Park City, UT, July 2019. “Big Business and the Morality of Capitalism.” Foundation for Economic Education Seminar, Georgia Perimeter College-Dunwoody, October, 2018). “Is Capitalism Moral?” Foundation for Economic Education Seminar, Georgia Perimeter College- Clarkston, March 2018 (also: Georgia Perimeter College-Dunwoody, October, 2017). “The Nature of Harm.” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2018. Also at: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Faculty Conference. Dallas, TX, October 2017. “Overcriminalization & Paternalism” (with Bill Glod). Moral Foundations of Capitalism Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2017. Commentator, Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty, Chapter 4: Legitimacy and Colonialism. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, May 2017. Panelist, “Reforming Criminal Law: Juvenile Sentencing and Non-Ideal Theory.” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2017. “Libertarianism Excludes Corporations.” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017. Also at: Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 2015. “Bars Are Bad for You: Why Paternalists Should Oppose Criminal Drug Laws” (with Bill Glod). Against Incarceration Conference, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2016. Author Meets Critics Session on Toleration with Emily M. Crookston, David Kelley, and Shawn Klein. American Association for the Philosophical Study of Society. 2016 Central APA Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2016. “Freedom From Harm.” Legal and Ethical Studies Program, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, October 2015. Also at: George Mason University Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Fairfax, VA, April 2015. “Libertarianism and Parental Licensing.” University of New Orleans Department of Philosophy, March 2015. Also at: Moral Foundations of Capitalism Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2014. “The Harm Principle and Corporate Welfare (or Tolerationism vs. Promotionism).” University of New Orleans Department of Philosophy, March 2015. “Does Inequality Matter? Yes!” 2014 Association for Private