Ted Cohen (philosopher)
Ted Cohen was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at University of Chicago.
His interests included philosophy of art, history of the philosophy of art, especially in the 18th-century, and the philosophy of language.Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1962, a Masters in Arts from Harvard in 1965 and a PhD from Harvard in 1972. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1967. Cohen worked mainly in the philosophy of art.
Cohen served as president of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics.
He was also the moderator of the Latke–Hamantash Debate at the University of Chicago for 25 years until his death.
