Diogenes Allen
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| Born | October 17, 1932 |
| Died | January 13, 2013 (aged 80) Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Philosophy; Theology |
| Institutions | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| Alma mater |
University of Kentucky; St John's College, Oxford; Yale Divinity School |
| Known for | interpreter of Simone Weil and Søren Kierkegaard |
| Notable awards | John Templeton Foundation Awards |
Diogenes Allen (October 17, 1932 – January 13, 2013) was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, which he served from 1958. He died on January 13, 2013 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Allen was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1954. He then began graduate study at Princeton University, but, after being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he matriculated to St John's College, Oxford. There he studied philosophy and met his wife Jane, a fellow student.
After returning to America, Allen earned a Bachelor of Divinity at Yale Divinity School. He was called to a pastorate in Windham, New Hampshire, in 1958, and ordained in what is now the Presbyterian Church (USA) the following year. Shortly thereafter he enrolled at Yale University Graduate School to study for a PhD in philosophy, which was awarded in 1965.
Allen began his teaching career in 1964 at York University, Toronto. In 1967, Princeton Theological Seminary offered him the position of associate professor of philosophy, which, he accepted. In 1974, he was appointed to a full professorship there and in 1981 was named Stuart Professor of Philosophy. By the time of his retirement in 2002, he had served the faculty for thirty-five years and had become an authority on Gottfried Leibniz and an influential interpreter of Simone Weil and Søren Kierkegaard.
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