Govert A. den Hartogh (born 1943, Kampen) is a Dutch moral, legal and political philosopher.
He received his PhD in philosophy in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam (supervisor Trudy van Asperen).
Other topics that he published on include: the meaning of consent in Locke’s political philosophy, the relation between intentions and reasons for action, the obligation to obey the law, pluralistic theories of justice, fiscal morality and principles of just taxation, and the proper role in politics of conceptions of the good life with a collective dimension.
[citation needed] Den Hartogh edited Springer’s Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy from 1997 to 2008, and is a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands since 2002.
In 2009 he was the president of the QANU review committee that assessed most of the degree (MA and BA) programs in philosophy of the Dutch universities.