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R. M. Hare appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,870 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 454 inbound references to R. M. Hare, and connects out to ethics, Oxford University Press and A. J. Ayer.
It is catalogued under topics including 1919 births, 2002 deaths and 20th-century English non-fiction writers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2002
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Greek philosophers
- Die Sprache der Moral
- Essays in ethical theory
- Essays in Ethical Theory
- Hare and Critics
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Mervyn Hare , ( 1919-03-21 ) 21 March 1919, Backwell , England
- Died
- 29 January 2002 (2002-01-29) (aged 82), Ewelme , England
- Spouse
- Catherine Verney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 )
- Children
- 4, including John E. Hare
- Alma mater
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Academic advisor
- H. J. Paton
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy
- Institutions
- Balliol College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford University of Florida
- Notable students
- John Lucas Brian McGuinness Peter Singer Bernard Williams
- Main interests
- Moral philosophy political philosophy
- Notable ideas
- Moral particularism preference utilitarianism two-level utilitarianism universal prescriptivism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mervyn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Somerset
- Place of death
- Ewelme
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Rugby School
- Employer
- University of Florida
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Field of work
- normative ethics
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- date of birth
- 1919-03-12
- date of death
- 2002-01-29
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- different from
- Kenneth Hare
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Mervyn Hare (21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R. M. Hare, was a British moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subsequently taught for a number of years at the University of Florida. His meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century.
Hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory, which he argues is supported by analysis of formal features of moral discourse, and for his defence of preference utilitarianism based on his prescriptivism.
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