Morris Raphael Cohen
Morris Raphael Cohen | |
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| Born | July 25, 1880 Minsk, Imperial Russia (present-day Belarus) |
| Died | January 28, 1947 (aged 66) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | CCNY Harvard University (PhD, 1906) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Pragmatism Logical positivism |
| Institutions | CCNY |
| Notable students | Ernest Nagel |
| Main interests | Legal philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Objective relativism |
Morris Raphael Cohen (Belarusian: Морыс Рафаэль Коэн; July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was a Russian-born American judicial philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union coalesced into the "objective relativism" fermenting at Columbia University before and during the early twentieth-century interwar period. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.