George Klosko

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = Contemporary philosophy

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|name = George Klosko

|birth_date = 1950

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|school_tradition = Analytic

| institutions = University of Virginia

|main_interests = Political philosophy

| thesis_title =The Politics of Philosophy: The Origin and Development of Plato's Political Theory

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| thesis_year = 1977

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| education = Columbia University (BA, PhD)

|awards = Spitz Prize

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George Klosko (born 1950) is an American philosopher and Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor at the University of Virginia. He is known for his works on political theory.{{cite web |title=Klosko |url=https://politics.virginia.edu/klosko |website=Department of Politics}}{{cite web |title=A Critical Assessment of George Klosko's Version of the Principle of Fair Play |url=https://openjournals.bsu.edu/stance/article/download/1785/1093}}{{cite journal |last1=Wiser |first1=James L. |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory. George Klosko |journal=The Journal of Politics |date=May 1987 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=644–646 |doi=10.2307/2131335 |language=en |issn=0022-3816}}{{cite journal |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory |journal=Philosophical Books |date=October 1989 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=211–213 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0149.1989.tb02185.x |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Creed |first1=J. L. |title=The Development of Plato's Political Theory By George Klosko New York and London: Methuen, 1986,xx+263 pp., £6.95 paper |journal=Philosophy |date=January 1987 |volume=62 |issue=239 |pages=109–111 |doi=10.1017/S0031819100038687 |language=en |issn=1469-817X}}

Klosko received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.{{Cite book |last1=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_043 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=February 2001 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}