Cohen earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy from
Yale University in 1973, and earned his
Ph.D. at
Harvard University under the direction of
John Rawls in 1979. He taught at
MIT from 1979 until 2007, when he moved to
Stanford University. At Stanford, he was Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society (2008–2014) and professor of political science, philosophy, and law (2006–2014) At Stanford, Cohen was also one of the program leaders (along with
Larry Diamond and
Terry Winograd) for the Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Cohen became part of the faculty of
Apple University in 2011, joining full-time on October 15, 2014 and resigning from Stanford. He also spends one day a week running a law and philosophy workshop series at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles and books in
political philosophy, including
deliberative democracy, and
global justice, as well as such topics as freedom of expression, electoral finance, and new models of democratic governance. His 2012 Comte Lectures at the
London School of Economics discussed the issues he teaches about: mobile for development and human-centered design. Since 1991, Cohen has served as editor of
Boston Review, with Deb Chasman joining as coeditor in 2002. ==Books==