Alan Patten

Alan Patten
Awards	APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory C.B. Macpherson Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford (PhD)
Thesis	Hegel's Idea of Freedom (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Michael E. Rosen
Other advisors	G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Raymond Plant, Michael Inwood
Academic work
Era	Contemporary Philosophy
Discipline	Political Philosophy
Institutions	Princeton University
Website	https://politics.princeton.edu/people/alan-patten

Alan Warren Patten is a Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck professor of political philosophy and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Life and works

He earned a B.A. from McGill University, an M.A. from the University of Toronto, and both an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. He has taught at McGill University and the University of Exeter, and was a visiting scholar at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.

Alan's first book, Hegel's Idea of Freedom, published in 2002 was the winner of APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory and the C.B. Macpherson Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association.

External links

Alan Patten publications indexed by Google Scholar