Cohen, Carl, 1931-2023

Carl Cohen (April 30, 1931 – August 26, 2023) was an American philosopher, academic, and civil rights advocate. He was Professor of Philosophy at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Cohen was co-author of The Animal Rights Debate (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), a point-counterpoint volume with Tom Regan; he is also the author of Democracy (Macmillan, 1972); the author of Four Systems (Random House, 1982); the editor of Communism, Fascism, and Democracy (McGraw Hill, 1997); the co-author (with J. Sterba) of Affirmative Action and Racial Preference (Oxford, 2003), co-author (with I. M. Copi) of Introduction to Logic, 13th edition (Prentice-Hall, 2008), and author of A Conflict of Principles: The Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (University Press of Kansas, 2014). Cohen published many essays in moral and political philosophy in philosophical, medical, and legal journals. He served as a member of the Medical School faculty of the University of Michigan, and as Chairman of the University of Michigan faculty, where he was an active member of the philosophy faculty from 1955. In 2006 the University held a celebration honoring his 50 years on the faculty.