G. A. den Hartogh
Govert A. den Hartogh (born 1943, Kampen) is a Dutch moral, legal and political philosopher. He studied theology in Kampen and philosophy in Leiden and Oxford. He received his PhD in philosophy in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam (supervisor Trudy van Asperen). From 1974 on he worked at the University of Amsterdam as assistant and associate professor of ethics and jurisprudence in the Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Law, as an extra-ordinary professor of medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine, and as a full professor of ethics and its history in the Philosophy Department. In 1992 he took the initiative of founding the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy, together with Robert Heeger and Bert Musschenga, and functioned as the school's first director. He retired in 2008. At his retirement his former Ph.D. students published a Festschrift. In 2002 Den Hartogh published Mutual Expectations: a Conventionalist Theory of Law. The book develops a theory of duties and rights, and of the relation between ethics and law, that situates itself in the modern natural law tradition from Grotius to Hume. Other topics that he published on include: the meaning of consent in Locke’s political philosophy, the relation