George Klosko

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

George Klosko
Born	1950
Awards	Spitz Prize
Education
Education	Columbia University (BA, PhD)
Thesis	The Politics of Philosophy: The Origin and Development of Plato's Political Theory (1977)
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of Virginia
Main interests	Political philosophy

Klosko received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.^[1][6]

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)