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Aug 06, 1934 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Died on 06 Sep 2015 (aged 81)
American political scientist
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About Richard E. Flathman
- Richard E.
- Flathman (August 6, 1934 – September 6, 2015) was 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 was a leading advocate of liberalism and a champion of individuality.
- He defended a conception of social freedom according to which it is "negative, situated, and elemental." Flathman was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1934.
- 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.
- He died on September 6, 2015 at the age of 81.
