Jonathan Cohen a professor and chair in the department of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of UCSD's Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program.

Before coming to UCSD Jonathan was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver during academic 2000-2001. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Rutgers University in 2000. He received his M.A. (philosophy, 1995) and B.A. (philosophy and math, 1993), from the University of Chicago.

Though Jonathan has worked in many different areas of philosophy, his principal interests these days are in philosophy of perception and philosophy of language, and especially on questions in these areas that interact with the cognitive sciences.

Much of his work in recent years has involved elaborating and defending a relationalist account of color properties --- a view on which colors are constituted in terms of a relation between perceiving subjects and objects. Jonathan has also been writing about interactions between and within perceptual modalities, and the implications of such interactions for our understanding of a range of issues including perceptual architecture, synesthesia, modularity, and sensory substitution. In language, Jonathan has been working on the semantics and pragmatics of context-sensitive expressions and on extrasemantic expansion.

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