{{Short description|Canadian philosopher (1941–2009)}} {{redirect|Gerald Cohen|the American composer and cantor|Gerald Cohen (composer)}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox academic | name = G. A. Cohen | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|size=100%}} | image = Philosopher G. A. Cohen in 1986.jpg | alt = | caption = Cohen in 1986 | birth_name = Gerald Allan Cohen | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1941|4|14}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|8|5|1941|4|14}} | death_place = Oxford, England | other_names = Jerry Cohen | spouse = {{ubl | {{marriage|Margaret Pearce|1965|1996|end=div}} | {{marriage|Michèle Jacottet|1999}}}} | children = 3 | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | McGill University | New College, Oxford}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = {{hlist | Analytical Marxism | left-libertarianism<ref>Vallentyne, Peter (2014). "[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/ Libertarianism]". In ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''. Stanford University.</ref> | egalitarianism}} | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = Gilbert Ryle<ref name="Rosen 2010, p. 2">{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Michael |author-link=Michael E. Rosen |year=2010 |title=Jerry Cohen: An Appreciation |url=https://philosophy.columbia.edu/files/philosophy/content/Jerry_Cohen-an_Appreciation.pdf |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University |page=2 |access-date=9 January 2019 |archive-date=14 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714063340/https://philosophy.columbia.edu/files/philosophy/content/Jerry_Cohen-an_Appreciation.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | influences = {{flatlist| * Louis Althusser * Isaiah Berlin * Karl Marx * John Rawls * Gilbert Ryle }} | era = | discipline = Philosophy | sub_discipline = {{hlist | Political philosophy | ethics | philosophy of history | social theory}} | workplaces = {{unbulleted list | University College, London | All Souls College, Oxford}} | doctoral_students = {{flatlist| * Cécile Fabre * Will Kymlicka * Michael Otsuka * Seana Shiffrin }} | notable_students = {{flatlist| * Simon Caney * Jonathan Wolff }} | main_interests = | notable_works = ''Karl Marx's Theory of History'' (1978)<ref>{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Michael |author-link=Michael E. Rosen |year=2010 |title=Jerry Cohen: An Appreciation |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/michaelrosen/publications/jerry-cohen-appreciation |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University |page=5 |access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref> | notable_ideas = {{hlist | Distinction between a strict and lax interpretation of the difference principle<ref>Frank Vandenbroucke, ''Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society: Equality, Responsibility, and Incentives'', Springer, 2012, p. 149.</ref> | egalitarian ethos<ref>Alexander Kaufman (ed.), ''Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage'', Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 52.</ref>}} | influenced = {{flatlist| * Alan Carter * Will Kymlicka * John McMurtry * Larry Temkin * Michael Otsuka * John Roemer * Euclid Tsakalotos * Jonathan Wolff }} | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Gerald Allan Cohen''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|oʊ|ə|n}} {{respell|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. He was known for his work on Marxism, and later, egalitarianism and distributive justice in normative political philosophy.
== Background == Born into an ethnically Jewish but "militantly anti-religious" family in Montreal, Quebec, on 14 April 1941,<ref name="Paul2009">{{Cite news |last=Paul |first=Levy |date=12 August 2009 |title=Professor Jerry Cohen: Maverick philosopher who subjected Marxism to the rigours of analytical philosophy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-jerry-cohen-maverick-philosopher-who-subjected-marxism-to-the-rigours-of-analytical-philosophy-1770667.html |work=The Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617064757/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-jerry-cohen-maverick-philosopher-who-subjected-marxism-to-the-rigours-of-analytical-philosophy-1770667.html |archive-date=17 June 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=O'Grady |first=Jane |date=10 August 2009 |title=GA Cohen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary |work=The Guardian |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124012800/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary |archive-date=24 January 2024 | access-date =21 March 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> Cohen was a "red diaper baby". His mother was a longtime Canadian Communist Party member; his father had similar political views but chose not to join.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=G. A. |title=If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? |chapter=Politics and Religion in a Montreal Communist Jewish Childhood |year=2001 |page=21 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674006935}}</ref> Cohen was educated at the Morris Winchevsky School, Strathcona Academy, and Outremont High School.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anon. |date=2009-08-11 |title=Professor Jerry Cohen: philosopher |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/professor-jerry-cohen-philosopher-npgqchdl72r |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524052425/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6790514.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=The Times |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Farmelant2009">{{cite magazine |last=Farmelant |first=James |date=8 August 2009 |title=G. A. Cohen, 1941-2009 |url=https://mronline.org/2009/08/08/g-a-cohen-1941-2009/ |magazine=Monthly Review |issn=0027-0520 |oclc=241373379 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250327105113/https://mronline.org/2009/08/08/g-a-cohen-1941-2009/ |archive-date=27 March 2025 |access-date=13 July 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==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.<ref name = ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Cohen, Gerald Allan [Jerry] (1941–2009), philosopher|last = Elster|first = Jon|date = 2013|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/101555}}</ref> Several of his students, such as Christopher Bertram, Simon Caney, Alan Carter, Cécile Fabre, Will Kymlicka, John McMurtry, David Leopold, Michael Otsuka, Seana Shiffrin, and Jonathan Wolff went on to be important moral and political philosophers. Cohen retired from the Chichele chair in 2008. At the time of his death, he was a visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL Faculty of Laws.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephen |first=Guest |author-link=Stephen Guest |date=2009-08-06 |title=Obituary: Professor Jerry Cohen |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2009/aug/obituary-professor-jerry-cohen |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=UCL News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Otsuka |first=Michael |date=11 August 2009 |title=Remarks at Jerry Cohen's funeral, All Souls College Chapel |url=http://personal.lse.ac.uk/OTSUKAM/Otsuka%27s%20remarks%20at%20Jerry%27s%20funeral.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516143609/https://personal.lse.ac.uk/OTSUKAM/Otsuka%27s%20remarks%20at%20Jerry%27s%20funeral.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2022 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science – Personal Web Pages }}</ref>
Cohen was a proponent of analytical Marxism<ref name="Cohen1979(1)">{{cite journal |last=Cohen |first=G. A. |year=1979 |title=The Labor Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=338–360 |url=https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3128-the-labour-theory-of-value-and-the-concept-of-exploitation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419113837/https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3128-the-labour-theory-of-value-and-the-concept-of-exploitation |archive-date=2023-04-19 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-02-25 }} Included in ''History, Labour, and Freedom'' (1988), pp.209-238.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Callinicos |first=Alex |date=2009-08-11 |title=Remembering Jerry Cohen |url=https://socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=18754 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813221547/https://socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=18754 |archive-date=13 August 2009 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Socialist Worker}}</ref> and a founding member of the September Group. His 1978 work ''Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence'' defends an interpretation of Karl Marx's historical materialism its critics often call technological determinism.<ref name="Singer">{{cite book |author=Singer, Peter |url=https://archive.org/details/marxveryshortint00sing_0/page/105 |title=Marx: A Very Short Introduction |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-19-285405-6 |location=Oxford |page=[https://archive.org/details/marxveryshortint00sing_0/page/105 105] |url-access=}}</ref> In ''History, Labour, and Freedom'' and ''Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality'', Cohen offers an extensive moral argument in favour of socialism, contrasting his views with those of John Rawls and Robert Nozick by articulating an extensive critique of the Lockean principle of self-ownership as well as the use of that principle to defend right as well as left-libertarianism.<ref name="Paul2009" /><ref name =Lamey2010>{{cite magazine |last=Lamey |first=Andy |date=June 2010 |title=The Thinking Man's Marxist |magazine=Literary Review of Canada |url=https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2010/06/the-thinking-mans-marxist/ |access-date=14 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125224339/https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2010/06/the-thinking-mans-marxist/ |archive-date=25 January 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> In ''If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?'' (which reprints his 1996 Gifford Lectures), Cohen addresses the question of what egalitarian political principles imply for the personal behaviour of those who hold them.
Who gets what out of a market transaction reflects, among other things, the relative power of the players.<ref name="Wolff">{{cite book |last1=Wolff |first1=Jonathan |year=1991 |title=Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, California |isbn=0-8047-1856-3 |page=85-88}}</ref><ref name="Shapiro2003">{{cite book |last=Shapiro |first=Ian |year=2003 |title=The Moral Foundations of Politics |edition=First |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0-300-07907-9 |page=107}}</ref> Jettisoning the labor theory of value,<ref name="Cohen1979(1)"/> Cohen argues that the "structure of proletarian unfreedom" requires workers to work for some capitalist.<ref name="Cohen1983">{{cite journal |last=Cohen |first=G. A. |title=The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=3–33 |date=Winter 1983 |url=https://www.uvm.edu/~fmagdoff/employment%20Jan.12.11/structure%20of%20proletarian%20unfreedom.pdf |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250614215908/https://www.uvm.edu/~fmagdoff/employment%20Jan.12.11/structure%20of%20proletarian%20unfreedom.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2025 |access-date=18 June 2025 |url-status=live}} Included in ''History, Labour, and Freedom'' (1988), pp.255–285.</ref><ref name="Shapiro2003"/> Reconceptualizing the Marxian critique of capitalism in this way turns it into an argument about power and freedom rather than labor-power and value.<ref name="Wysocki2018">{{cite journal |last=Wysocki |first=Igor |year=2018 |title=Freedom and Property Rights – Avoiding Circularity |journal=Dialogi Polityczne |volume=24 |pages=39–48 |doi=10.12775/DP.2018.003|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Dominiak2018">{{Cite journal |last=Dominiak |first=Lukasz |year=2018 |title=Libertarianism, Freedom and the Problem of Circularity |journal=Athenaeum: Polish Political Science Studies |volume=59 |pages=7–17 |doi=10.15804/athena.2018.59.01}}</ref> It suggests that, for all Marx's conceptual and predictive failures, his intuition that some under capitalism lack a basic freedom that others enjoy at their expense merits our continuing attention.<ref name="Cohen1979(2)">Cohen, G. A. (1979). "Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat." rev. and rep. In his ''On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy''. (Michael. Otsuka, ed.) Princeton Univ. Press (2011), pp. 147-165.</ref><ref name="Shapiro2003"/> But for this, it is important to solve various conceptual problems.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Philosophy">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Arnold |first=Samuel |year=2016 |title=Socialism-6. Why Socialism? Freedom and Human Development |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=University of Tennessee at Martin |url=https://iep.utm.edu/socialis/#H6 |access-date=2026-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260225075934/https://iep.utm.edu/socialis/#H6 |archive-date=2026-02-25 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wysocki2018"/><ref name="Dominiak2018"/>
Cohen was known for his flamboyant style during philosophical debates. According to his best friend, the philosopher Gerald Dworkin, "Nothing was too inappropriate, private, bizarre, or embarrassing to be suddenly brought into the conversation".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dworkin |first=Gerald |date=14 August 2009 |title=In Memoriam G. A. (Jerry) Cohen |access-date=17 October 2024 |url=https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/08/in-memoriam-g-a-jerry-cohen.html|website=3 Quarks Daily}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== In 1965, Cohen married Margaret Pearce; they had three children and divorced in 1996.<ref name = ODNB/> Three years later, he married Michèle Jacottet.<ref name = ODNB/> He personally abjured technology, a stance he called "technological conservatism"; Michèle answered all his email.
Cohen was close friends with Marxist political philosopher Marshall Berman.
On 5 August 2009, Cohen died from a stroke at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, aged 68.<ref name = ODNB/>
==Select works== *''Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence'' (1978, 2000). Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press. *{{cite journal |title=The Labor Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation |year=1979 |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=338–360 |url=https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3128-the-labour-theory-of-value-and-the-concept-of-exploitation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419113837/https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3128-the-labour-theory-of-value-and-the-concept-of-exploitation |archive-date=2023-04-19 |url-status=live |access-date=2026-02-25 }} Included in ''History, Labour, and Freedom'' (1988), pp.209-238. *{{cite journal |title=The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=3–33 |date=Winter 1983 |url=https://www.uvm.edu/~fmagdoff/employment%20Jan.12.11/structure%20of%20proletarian%20unfreedom.pdf |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250614215908/https://www.uvm.edu/~fmagdoff/employment%20Jan.12.11/structure%20of%20proletarian%20unfreedom.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2025 |access-date=18 June 2025 |url-status=live}} Included in ''History, Labour, and Freedom'' (1988), pp.255–285. *[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2336/71p357.pdf "Marx and Locke on Land and Labour"] ''Proceedings of the British Academy 71, 1985'' (1986) *''History, Labour, and Freedom'' (1988). Oxford: Oxford University Press. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150131010223/http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/c/cohen92.pdf "Incentives, Inequality, and Community"] The Tanner Lectures On Human Values, Delivered at Stanford University May 21, 23, 1991 *{{cite book |title=Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-5214-7174-9 |oclc=612482692}} *{{cite journal |date=2000 |title=Freedom and Money |journal=Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–32 |url=https://www.howardism.org/appendix/Cohen.pdf |format=PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114165816/https://www.howardism.org/appendix/Cohen.pdf |archive-date=14 January 2025 |access-date=18 June 2025 |url-status=live}}(orig. presented as Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture, May 1998).<ref>{{cite web |title=Isaiah Berlin Catalogue – OA.668: "Freedom and Money" |url=https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/catalogues?field_catalogue_number_value=&field_date_value%5B0%5D=&field_date_value%5B1%5D=&field_date_value%5B2%5D=&field_date_value_op=%3D&page=73&tid_1=All&title |website=Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library |publisher=Wolfson College, University of Oxford |language=en |access-date=18 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618112326/https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/catalogues?field_catalogue_number_value=&field_date_value%5B0%5D=&field_date_value%5B1%5D=&field_date_value%5B2%5D=&field_date_value_op=%3D&page=73&tid_1=All&title |archive-date=18 June 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Cohen |first=G. A. |title=Freedom and Money |url=https://revistajuridica.utdt.edu/ojs/index.php/ratj/article/view/265 |website=Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica |publisher=Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |date=21 September 2001 |access-date=18 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909035222/https://revistajuridica.utdt.edu/ojs/index.php/ratj/article/view/265 |archive-date=9 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> *{{cite journal |title=If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? |journal=The Journal of Ethics |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115633 |url-access=subscription |jstor=25115633 |volume=4 |number=1/2 |date=Jan–Mar 2000 |pages=1–26}} This journal article is included as a chapter in Cohen's 2001 book, ''If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?'' *''If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?'' (2001). A collection of nine lectures Cohen gave at the University of Edinburgh in 1996.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Gerald A. |title=If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-00693-5 |location=Cambridge}}</ref> *"Expensive Taste Rides Again," in: ''Ronald Dworkin and his Critics, with replies by Dworkin'' (2004) *''Rescuing Justice and Equality'' (2008) *''Why Not Socialism?'' (2009)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barker |first=Alexander |date=9 November 2009 |title=On a Socialist Camping Trip |url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/you-and-i-and-a-whole-bunch-of-other-people-go-on-a-camping-trip/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311224121/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/you-and-i-and-a-whole-bunch-of-other-people-go-on-a-camping-trip/ |archive-date=11 March 2010 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=The Oxonian Review}}</ref><ref name =Lamey2010 /> *''On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robeyns |first=Ingrid |author-link=Ingrid Robeyns |date=July 2015 |title=On G. A. Cohen's "On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice" |url= |journal=Ethics |language=en |volume=125 |issue=4 |pages=1132–1135 |doi=10.1086/680879 |issn=0014-1704 |jstor=10.1086/680879}}</ref> *''Finding Oneself in the Other'' (2012) *''Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy'' (2014)
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Communism}} *Luck egalitarianism
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite journal |last=Wolff |first=Jonathan |year=2011 |title=Gerald Allan Cohen 1941–2009 |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=172 |pages=49–67|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1702/172p049.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307102057/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1702/172p049.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2024 |accessdate=14 March 2025 |url-status=live}} *{{cite web |last=O'Grady |first=Jane |date=10 August 2009 |title=GA Cohen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary |work=The Guardian |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124012800/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary |archive-date=24 January 2024 | access-date = 2025-03-21|url-status=live}} *Corlett. J. Angelo (ed.) ''The Journal of Ethics'' Vol. 14, No. 3/4, Devoted to G. A. Cohen (Sept/Dec 2010) {{JSTOR|i40041780}} *Sypnowich, Christine (ed.) ''The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen'' (2006) {{Doi|10.1093/0199281688.001.0001}} *{{Citation |last=Tomey |first=Simon |contribution=An Interview with Jerry Cohen |editor-last=Browning |editor-first=Gary |editor2-last=Dimova-Cookson |editor2-first=Maria |editor-last3=Prokhovnik |editor-first3=Raia |editor-link3=Raia Prokhovnik |title=Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists |pages=74–85 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |year=2012 |doi=10.1057/9781137271297_5 |isbn=978-0-230-30305-8}} * {{Cite book |last= Vrousalis |first= Nicholas |title= The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen |date= 24 September 2015 |url= http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-political-philosophy-of-g-a-cohen-9781472532701/ |publisher= Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4725-3270-1}} ** Jonathan Wolff (14 August 2017). [https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/8277_the-political-philosophy-of-g-a-cohen-review-by-jonathan-woolf/ "The Political Philosophy of G. A. Cohen: Review by Jonathan Wolff"]. ''Marx and Philosophy'' * {{cite book | last=Sypnowich | first=Christine | year=2024 | title=G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality | location=Cambridge | publisher=Polity Press | series=Key Contemporary Thinkers | isbn=9781509529940}}
==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [https://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/gacoheninterview.html "Self-Ownership, History and Socialism: An Interview with G.A. Cohen"] originally in ''Imprints'': vol. 1 no.1 (June 1996). * {{cite AV media|last1=Cohen |first1=G. A. |date=2007-12-23 |series=Episode #33 |url=https://philosophybites.com/podcast/g-a-cohen-on-inequality-of-wealth/ | title=G. A. Cohen on the Inequality of Wealth (with transcript) | interviewer-last1= Warburton |interviewer-first1= Nigel |website=Philosophy Bites |type= podcast |format=mp3 |access-date=2026-02-27}} * Cohen {{YouTube|yA9WPQeow9c|"Against Capitalism"}}, episode of ''Opinions'' (1986) * ''[https://cdn.uclouvain.be/public/Exports%20reddot/etes/documents/CohenJ90610.pdf 2010 All Souls College Commemoration of Gerald (Jerry) Allan Cohen]'' with addresses from Professors Philippe Van Parijs, John Roemer, Myles Burnyeat and Timothy Scanlon, and a family tribute from Jerry's son Gideon Cohen.
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