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American philosopher and lawyer (1880–1947)

Morris Raphael Cohen (Belarusian: Морыс Рафаэль Коэн; July 25, 1880[a] – January 28, 1947) was a Russian-born American judicial philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union coalesced into the "objective relativism" fermenting at Columbia University before and during the early twentieth-century interwar period.[2] He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.

Cohen was born in Minsk, Imperial Russia (present-day Belarus), the son of Bessie (Farfel) and Abraham Mordecai Cohen. He moved with his family to New York at the age of 12. He attended the City College of New York (CCNY) and Harvard University, where he studied under Josiah Royce, William James, and Hugo Münsterberg. He obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1906, with a dissertation titled Kant's Doctrine as to the Relation between Duty and Happiness.[3]

He was Professor of Philosophy at CCNY from 1912 to 1938. He also taught law at City College and the University of Chicago 1938-41, gave courses at the New School for Social Research, and lectured in Philosophy and Law at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and other universities.

Cohen was legendary as a professor for his wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and ability to demolish philosophical systems. "He could and did tear things apart in the most devastating and entertaining way; but...he had a positive message of his own", said Robert Hutchins. Bertrand Russell said of Cohen that he had the most original mind in contemporary American philosophy.[4]

In 1923 he edited and penned an introduction to a collection of Charles Sanders Peirce essays entitled Chance, Love and Logic.[5]

In the 1930s, Cohen helped give CCNY its reputation as the "proletarian Harvard," perhaps more than any other faculty member. He advocated liberalism in politics but opposed laissez-faire economics.[6] Cohen also defended liberal democracy and wrote indictments of both fascism and communism.[7] Cohen's obituary in the New York Times called him "an almost legendary figure in American philosophy, education and the liberal tradition".[7]

On May 3, 1953, under President Buell G. Gallagher, the City College Library was dedicated to and named for Morris Raphael Cohen.[8]

Cohen helped,[9] with Professor Salo W. Baron, organize the Conference on Jewish Relations to study modern Jewry scientifically; he also edited its quarterly journal Jewish Social Studies.[10]

Cohen died on January 28, 1947 in Washington, D.C.[11][12]

According to Richard T. Hall, he was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth, New York.[13]

Published posthumously

  1. ^ Arriving in New York City in 1892 and "obliged to indicate his date of birth, Cohen chose 25 July because it was the approximate date of his arrival in his new country. His parents were unable to specify even the year of his birth, but agreed upon 1880 in order to justify Cohen’s bar mitzvah in 1893, which was to take place at the end of his thirteenth year."[1]
  1. ^ Hollinger, David A. (2000). Cohen, Morris Raphael (25 July 1880?–28 January 1947), philosopher and educator. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2000196. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  2. ^ Cahoone, Lawrence (2017). "The Metaphysics of Morris R. Cohen: From Realism to Objective Relativism". Journal of the History of Ideas. 78 (3): 449–471. doi:10.1353/jhi.2017.0025. PMID 28757489. S2CID 33434862.
  3. ^ Morris Raphael Cohen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Holmes-Laski Letters. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Harvard University Press, 1953 (p. 483).
  5. ^ Chance, Love, and Logic Philosophical Essays. University of Nebraska Press. 1998. p. iv.
  6. ^ Cohen,The Faith of a Liberal: Selected Essays by Morris R. Cohen. H. Holt and Company, 1946 (p. 110).
  7. ^ a b The Jew in the American World: a source book. Edited by Jacob Rader Marcus. Wayne State University Press, 1996, (pp. 317-22). ISBN 0-8143-2548-3
  8. ^ Rosenfield, Leonora Davidson Cohen "Who Was Morris Raphael Cohen?" The City College Alumnus, v. 76 #2, December 1980, p. 8-9.
  9. ^ "Morris Raphael Cohen | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  10. ^ Konvitz, Milton R. Nine American Jewish Thinkers. Transaction Publishers. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-4128-2977-9.
  11. ^ Hollinger, David A. (2000). "Cohen, Morris Raphael (25 July 1880?–28 January 1947), philosopher and educator". American National Biography. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2000196. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  12. ^ see also: "Cohen, Morris Raphael ." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. and "Cohen, Morris Raphael ." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. via Encyclopedia.com.
  13. ^ Hull, Richard T. (1999). "Biography: Morris Raphael Cohen". Presidential addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1921-1930. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic. p. 532. ISBN 978-0-7923-6042-1 – via Internet Archive.

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