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Alan Patten

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Alan Patten
AwardsAPSA First Book Prize in Political Theory
C.B. Macpherson Prize
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (PhD)
ThesisHegel's Idea of Freedom (1995)
Doctoral advisorMichael E. Rosen
Other advisorsG. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Raymond Plant, Michael Inwood
Academic work
EraContemporary Philosophy
DisciplinePolitical Philosophy
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Websitehttps://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.[1][2]

Life and works

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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.[1]

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.[1]

Selected publications

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  • Patten, Alan (2002). Hegel's Idea of Freedom. doi:10.1093/0199251568.001.0001. ISBN 0-19-925156-8. Retrieved 2025-07-28.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
  • Patten, Alan (2014). Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights (1 ed.). Princeton University Press. doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691159379.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-691-15937-9.

Editorials

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Alan Patten | Princeton Politics". politics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  2. ^ "Alan Patten appointed as incoming director of the University Center for Human Values | University Center for Human Values". uchv.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  3. ^ Hunt, Ian (2001-09-01). "Hegel's Idea of Freedom". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 79 (3): 435–437. doi:10.1093/ajp/79.3.435 (inactive 29 July 2025). ISSN 0004-8402.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  4. ^ Wheeler, Randolph C. (2001). "Review of Hegel's Idea of Freedom". The Review of Metaphysics. 54 (3): 673–675. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20131600.
  5. ^ Yi, Zane; Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center (2009). "Hegel's Idea of Freedom". Owl of Minerva. 40 (2): 252–258. doi:10.5840/owl20094026. ISSN 0030-7580.
  6. ^ Matarrese, Craig; Philosophy Documentation Center (2001). "Hegel's Idea of Freedom". International Philosophical Quarterly. 41 (3): 377–378. doi:10.5840/ipq200141335. ISSN 0019-0365.
  7. ^ Knowles, Dudley (October 2000). "Book reviews". The Philosophical Quarterly. 50 (201): 537–566. doi:10.1111/1467-9213.t01-1-00207. ISSN 0031-8094.
  8. ^ Gordon, Rupert H. (June 2000). "Recensions / Reviews". Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique. 33 (2): 383–438. doi:10.1017/S0008423900000147. ISSN 1744-9324.
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