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Henry S. Richardson
Born
Henry Shattuck Richardson

1955 (age 68–69)
United States
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD, MPP)
SpouseMary E. Challinor
InstitutionsKennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University
ThesisRational deliberation of ends (1986)
Doctoral advisorJohn Rawls
Main interests
Practical reasoning, moral reasoning and bioethics

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

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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.[3][1]

Academic career

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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.[3][4]

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]

Works

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Books

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  • Richardson, Henry S; Douglass, Bruce; Mara, Gerald M (1990). Liberalism and the good. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415902434.
  • Richardson, Henry S (1997). Practical reasoning about final ends. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521574426.
  • Richardson, Henry S (2002). Democratic autonomy: public reasoning about the ends of policy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195150919.
  • Richardson, Henry S (2012). Moral entanglements: the ancillary-care obligations of medical researchers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195388930.
  • Richardson, Henry S (2018). Articulating the moral community: toward a constructive ethical pragmatism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190247744.

Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b Richardson, Henry Shattuck (1986). Rational deliberation of ends (Ph.D.). Harvard University.
  2. ^ Berlin, Isaiah (2017). Affirming: Letters 1975-1997. New York: Random House. ISBN 9781473555396.
  3. ^ a b c "Henry S Richardson". Georgetown University. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Henry S. Richardson, J.D., M.P.P., Ph.D." Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Anne Richardson, 69, Patron of Literacy (obituary)". The New York Times. 29 July 1999. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  6. ^ Richardson, Henry (1997). Practical reasoning about final ends. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521574426.
  7. ^ Richardson, Henry (2002). Democratic autonomy: public reasoning about the ends of policy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195150919.
  8. ^ "Organized Section Awards - Public Administration Organized Section: Herbert A. Simon Book Award Recipients". American Political Science Association. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Book awards: David Easton Award". Library Thing. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  10. ^ "Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Editorial Board)". Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Election results for HDCA Executive Council". Human Development and Capability Association. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  12. ^ "New HDCA Executive Council members elected!". Human Development and Capability Association. 8 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  13. ^ "International Panel on Social Progress". International Panel on Social Progress. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  14. ^ International Panel on Social Progress (2018). Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108399579.
  15. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Henry S. Richardson".
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Educational offices
Preceded by President of the Human Development and Capability Association
September 2014 – September 2016 		Succeeded by
Ravi Kanbur
from September 2016
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