Alan James Ryan FBA is Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was born 9 May 1940, and was educated at Christ’s Hospital, Balliol College, Oxford, and University College, London. Elected a fellow of New College in 1969, he returned in 1996 to take up the Wardenship. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986. FBA can mean: Fellow of the British Academy Flag Burning Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution Florida Bar Association Flux Balance Analysis, in Chemical Engineering/Systems Biology Freshwater Biological Association In Computer Science, Faceless Background Application, Fix Block Architecture or Fixed Blocked ANSI-defined printer control characters... College name New College of St Mary Latin name Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister college Kings College, Cambridge Warden Prof. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Jack Hawkins Undergraduates 403 MCR President Chelsea Payne Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in... The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...

Ryan is a recognised authority on the work of John Stuart Mill, having contributed directly to the ‘Reversionary’ school, which led to a re-examination of Mill’s work from the 1970s. His academic work also takes in broader themes in political theory, including the philosophy of social science, the nature of property, and liberalism of the 19th and 20th centuries. John Stuart Mill (20th May 1806 – 8th May 1873), a British philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ... Niccolò Machiavelli, ca 1500, became the key figure in realistic political theory, crucial to political science Political Science is the systematic study of the allocation and transfer of power in decision making. ... Philosophy of social science is the scholarly elucidation and debate of accounts of the nature of the social sciences, their relations to each other, and their relations to the natural sciences (see natural science). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ...

Ryan has held positions at the Universities of Essex, Oxford, and Keele and Princeton Universities. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is widely regarded as a leading ‘public intellectual’ in the UK. The University of Essex rules is a British plate glass university. ... Keele Hall, formerly the ancestral home of the Sneyd family, is now part of Keele University Keele University is a well respected British university centrally located by the village of Keele just outside Newcastle-under-Lyme in north Staffordshire. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a twice-monthly British literary magazine. ... The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ...

Ryan was, as a reviewer, involved in some controversy regarding the publication of a book by Oxford University Press, called Making Names. See: http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/mnblurb.html. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ...

Ryan can be heard giving a breif account of Mill's philosophy, and a defense of him as the greatest British philosopher, on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ram/gpv_adv_js_mill.ram BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... In Our Time can refer to a number of things: In Our Time — the BBC Radio 4 programme hosted by Melvin Bragg In Our Time — a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway In Our Time — a collection of cartoons and essays by Tom Wolfe In Our...

Books

The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1970): an examination of Mill’s philosophy of science, its relation to his ethical thought, and a defence of the view that Mill’s work is largely coherent, concentrating on Mill’s A System of Logic.

The Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1970): an introduction to the philosophy of social science.

J.S. Mill (1975): a guide through the important works of Mill, and the themes to be found therein.

Property and Political Theory (1984)

Property (1987)

Russell: A Political Life (1993)

John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (1995)

Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education (1998): given as a lecture series at the University of California, Berkeley, contains autobiographical material.

Sources

• Prospect magazine
• New York Review of Books
• Alan Ryan: CV
• Department of Politics and International Relations
• Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett, 1999), p. 1715