Richard Dien Winfield

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. He is married to Sujata Gupta Winfield, an immigration attorney, and has three grown children. He is the author of 24 books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. In 2018 and 2020 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives in the Democratic Primary in Georgia's 10th District and in the US Senate special election, respectively. In both campaigns, he advocated a social rights agenda anchored in a Federal Job Guarantee, for which he argued in his 2020 book, Democracy Unchained.