Ted Cohen (1939 - March 14, 2014) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.^[1][2] His interests included philosophy of art, history of the philosophy of art, especially in the 18th-century, and the philosophy of language.^[3]

Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Chicago in 1962, a Master of Arts (MA) from Harvard in 1965 and a PhD from Harvard in 1972 (Titled: The grammar of taste). He taught at the University of Chicago from 1967. Cohen worked mainly in the philosophy of art.^[3]

Cohen served as president of the American Philosophical Association (2006-2007) and the American Society for Aesthetics (1997-1998).^[4]

He was also the moderator of the Latke–Hamantash Debate at the University of Chicago for 25 years until his death.

• Essays in Kant's Aesthetics, edited with Paul Guyer (University of Chicago Press, 1982)
• Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
• Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor (Princeton University Press, 2008).
• Serious Larks: The Philosophy of Ted Cohen, edited and introduced by Daniel Herwitz. (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

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