Cohen retired from teaching
in the Philosophy Department at The City College of New York
in 1938 after thirty-two years of service. He then became
a professor at the University of Chicago and retired from
that position in 1941.
He influenced the majority of the prominent
scholars and writers of the following decades: William C.
Barrett (CCNY Class of 1933); Lewis Feuer (CCNY Class of 1931
and a colleague in the City College Philosophy Department);
Louis Finkelstein (CCNY Class of 1915); Paul Goodman (CCNY
Class of 1931); Sidney Hook (CCNY Class of 1923); Ernest Nagel
(CCNY Class of 1923, also a colleague); Joseph Lash (CCNY
Class of 1931); Philip P. Wiener (CCNY Class of 1925, another
colleague); and Bertram D. Wolfe (CCNY Class of 1916).
Class of 1900
