AKA Richard Mervyn Hare

Born: 21-Mar-1919
Birthplace: Backwell, Somerset, England
Died: 29-Jan-2002
Location of death: Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: Stroke

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Philosopher

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Moral Thinking

Military service: British Army (Royal Artillery, WWII, prisoner of war at Singapore)

Wife: Catherine Verney (m. 1947, one son, three daughters)
Son: John E. Hare (philosopher at Yale)

    High School: Rugby School
    University: Balliol College, Oxford University
    Scholar: Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University (1947-96)
    Professor: Moral Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (1966-83)
    Professor: University of Florida, Gainseville (1983-94)

    Taken Prisoner of War

Author of books:
The Language of Morals (1952)
Freedom and Reason (1963)
Practical Inferences (1971)
Essays on Philosophical Method (1971)
Essays on the Moral Concepts (1972)
Applications of Moral Philosophy (1972)
Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Methods, and Point (1981)
Plato (1982)
Essays in Ethical Theory (1989)
Essays on Political Morality (1989)
Essays on Relgion and Education (1992)
Essays on Bioethics (1993)
Sorting Out Ethics (1997)

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