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Richard Flathman

Date of Birth 06-August-1934
Place of Birth Saint Paul
(United States of America, Minnesota, Ramsey County, Area code 651)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Richard E. Flathman
Richard E. Flathman is the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for having pioneered, with Brian Barry, David Braybrooke, Felix Oppenheim, and Abraham Kaplan, the application of analytic philosophy to political science. He is a leading advocate of liberalism and a champion of individuality. He defends a conception of social freedom according to which it is "negative, situated, and elemental." He received his PhD from Berkeley in 1962. He has been a professor at Johns Hopkins since 1975, and was chair of his department from 1979-1985. Prior to joining Hopkins, he taught at the Universities of Washington and Chicago, and at Reed College. With his colleague and interlocutor William E. Connolly, Flathman founded what is sometimes called the "Hopkins School" of political theory.

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