{"id":4824,"date":"2022-08-01T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jonathan-r-cohen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:07:32","slug":"jonathan-r-cohen","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jonathan-r-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan R. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph.D., M.A. University of Pennsylvania, M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary, M.A. Johns Hopkins University, A.B. Harvard University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Cohen has taught the entire history of philosophy from Anaximander to Zizek, as well as courses in the fields of logic, ethics, philosophy of education, philosophy of music, and philosophy and literature. Recent course titles include \u201cPhilosophies to Live By\u201d and \u201cTruth Lies &amp; BS.\u201d He is the author of In Nietzsche\u2019s Footsteps, a philosophical travel memoir recounting his family\u2019s trip to three of Nietzsche\u2019s favorite residences (8th House Publishing, 2018), as well as Science, Culture, and Free Spirits: A Study of Nietzsche\u2019s Human, All-Too-Human (Humanity Books, 2010). Current research projects include Nietzsche\u2019s Playlist and Plato on Love, Death, and the Soul. He is a volunteer maintainer of the Appalachian Trail, a poll worker in Farmington Maine, and an avid Nordic skier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2022\/08\/Cohen-Vita-5-16-24.pdf\">Johnathan Cohen&#8217;s CV<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/fellowships-and-awards-2\/\">Fellowships and Awards<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/work-in-progress-2\/\">Work in Progress<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/publications-with-links-2\/\">Publications with Links<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/presentations-2\/\">Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1536,"featured_media":4980,"template":"","class_list":["post-4824","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4824\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}