Instructor: BRUCE LANDESMAN

BRUCE LANDESMAN

Bruce Landesman received a BA and a PhD in philosophy and spent most of his career as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah, retiring in 2012. His specialties are moral philosophy and political philosophy. He regularly teaches Osher courses on the general nature of democracy and how it fails. Bruce has been teaching for Osher since 2016.

BRUCE LANDESMAN is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
Origins of Modern Political Thought	Spring	3/27/25 - 5/01/25	Osher Lifelong Learning

BRUCE LANDESMAN has previously taught:

• The 2024 Election and Democracy
• Democracy in Peril: Is American Undergoing a Constitutional Crisis?
• Origins of Democracy
• Democracy and Authoritarianism
• Freedom: Its Scope and Limits