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Henry S. Richardson
Birth Name:Henry Shattuck Richardson
Birth Place:United States
Institutions:Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University
Main Interests:Practical reasoning, moral reasoning and bioethics
Influences:Aristotle • John Dewey • John Rawls • Martha Nussbaum
Spouse:Mary E. Challinor
Thesis Title:Rational deliberation of ends
Thesis Url:http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019874370203941/catalog
Thesis Year:1986
Education:Harvard University (BA, JD, MPP)
Doctoral Advisor:John Rawls

Henry Shattuck Richardson (born 1955)[1] [2] is an American philosopher, author, and professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, where he is also a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.[3] [4]

Early life and education

Richardson is the son of Anne Richardson, who was once the chair of Reading is Fundamental, and the politician and lawyer Elliot Richardson, who served as United States Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and Secretary of Commerce.[5]

Richardson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. He then received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (supervised by Martha Nussbaum), both in 1981. In 1986, Richardson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University under the supervision of John Rawls; his thesis was titled Rational deliberation of ends.[1]

Academic career

Richardson's main work has centred on practical reasoning. His first book, Practical Reasoning about Final Ends,[6] focused on individual reasoning, whilst his second book, Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy,[7] which won the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award in Public Administration,[8] and the David Easton Award in the Foundations of Political Theory,[9] dealt with collective reasoning.

In addition to working on practical reasoning and moral and political philosophy, Richardson has written on bioethics. He has twice been a visiting scholar at the Department of Bioethics at the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health.

From 2008 to 2018, he was the Editor of the academic journal Ethics.[10] From 2010 to 2013, through his work as a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), he has acted as an advisor to the Director General of UNESCO on ethical issues relating to science and technology.

In September 2014 Richardson began a two-year tenure as president of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).[11] He was succeeded by the economist Ravi Kanbur.[12] From 2014 to 2017, he served as one of two "coordinating lead authors" on the orienting normative chapter of the three-volume report of the International Panel of Social Progress,[13] Rethinking Society for the 21st Century.[14]

In 2019, Richardson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Richardson. Henry Shattuck. Rational deliberation of ends. 1986. Ph.D.. Harvard University.
  2. Book: Berlin, Isaiah. Affirming: Letters 1975-1997. New York. Random House. 2017. 9781473555396.
  3. Web site: Henry S Richardson. Georgetown University. 13 April 2014.
  4. Web site: Henry S. Richardson, J.D., M.P.P., Ph.D.. Kennedy Institute of Ethics. 13 April 2014.
  5. News: Anne Richardson, 69, Patron of Literacy (obituary). 13 April 2014. The New York Times. 29 July 1999.
  6. Book: Richardson, Henry . Practical reasoning about final ends . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York . 1997 . 9780521574426 .
  7. Book: Richardson, Henry . Democratic autonomy: public reasoning about the ends of policy . registration . Oxford University Press . New York . 2002 . 9780195150919 .
  8. Web site: Organized Section Awards - Public Administration Organized Section: Herbert A. Simon Book Award Recipients. American Political Science Association. 13 April 2014.
  9. Web site: Book awards: David Easton Award. Library Thing. 13 April 2014.
  10. Web site: Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Editorial Board). 13 April 2014.
  11. Web site: Election results for HDCA Executive Council. . 13 April 2014. 15 May 2013.
  12. Web site: New HDCA Executive Council members elected!. . 21 June 2015 . 8 June 2015.
  13. Web site: International Panel on Social Progress. . 6 August 2019.
  14. Book: International Panel on Social Progress . Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 2018 . 9781108399579 .
  15. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Henry S. Richardson.

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