Alan Charles Kors (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian who is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania , where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching.
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8-516: A Bachelor of Arts , summa cum laude , from Princeton University in 1964, and received a M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) in European history from Harvard University . Kors has written on the history of skeptical , atheistic , and materialist thought in 17th and 18th-century France , on the Enlightenment in general, on the history of European witchcraft beliefs, and on academic freedom. He
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16-728: Was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, which was published in four volumes by Oxford University Press in 2002. Kors co-founded – with civil rights advocate Harvey Silverglate and served from 2000 to 2006 as chairman of the board of directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He has occasionally written pieces for popular libertarian journals on political matters such as Reason . His essay "Can There Be An After Socialism?"
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