George Klosko
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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|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}}
Books
- The Development of Plato’s Political Theory (Methuen, 1986; Second Edition, Oxford, 2006)
- The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992)
- Political Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2011)
- The Transformation of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Why we should obey the law? (Polity Press, 2019)
References
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External links
- [https://uva.theopenscholar.com/george-klosko/ Personal website]
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Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:American philosophy academics
Category:American political philosophers
Category:University of Virginia faculty
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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