{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1950)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era = Contemporary philosophy |image = |name = George Klosko |birth_date = 1950 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |school_tradition = Analytic | institutions = University of Virginia |main_interests = Political philosophy | thesis_title =The Politics of Philosophy: The Origin and Development of Plato's Political Theory | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1977 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | notable_ideas = | education = Columbia University (BA, PhD) |awards = Spitz Prize }}
'''George Klosko''' (born 1950) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is known for his works on political theory.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Klosko |url=https://politics.virginia.edu/klosko |website=Department of Politics}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Critical Assessment of George Klosko's Version of the Principle of Fair Play |url=https://openjournals.bsu.edu/stance/article/download/1785/1093}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wiser |first1=James L. |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory. George Klosko |journal=The Journal of Politics |date=May 1987 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=644–646 |doi=10.2307/2131335 |language=en |issn=0022-3816}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory |journal=Philosophical Books |date=October 1989 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=211–213 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0149.1989.tb02185.x |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Creed |first1=J. L. |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory By George Klosko New York and London: Methuen, 1986, xx+263 pp., £6.95 paper |journal=Philosophy |date=January 1987 |volume=62 |issue=239 |pages=109–111 |doi=10.1017/S0031819100038687 |language=en |issn=1469-817X}}</ref>
Klosko received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_043 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=February 2001 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}</ref>
==Books== *''The Development of Plato’s Political Theory'' (Methuen, 1986; Second Edition, Oxford, 2006) * ''The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation'' (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992) * ''Political Obligations'' (Oxford University Press, 2005) * ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy'' (Oxford, 2011) * ''The Transformation of American Liberalism'' (Oxford University Press, 2017) * ''Why we should obey the law?'' (Polity Press, 2019)
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==External links== *[https://uva.theopenscholar.com/george-klosko/ Personal website]
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