About Robert E. Goodin
Born 1950. Robert E. Goodin is an American philosopher and political scientist.
Robert E. Goodin (born 30 November 1950) is an American philosopher who is a former Professor of Government at the University of Essex and is now Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at the Australian National University.
Biography Goodin attended Oxford University, where he earned a DPhil in politics in 1975.
He is the founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and a co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science.
In 2022, Goodin was awarded the prestigious Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for his "acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.”
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American philosopher
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Robert E. Goodin was born on 30 November 1950.
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Robert E. Goodin is a philosopher and political scientist.
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