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Alan Patten

D.Phil. University of Oxford 1995

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About 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.

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University of Oxford

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D.Phil. University of Oxford 1995

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