Henry S. Richardson (philosopher)
| Henry S. Richardson | |
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| Born | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Spouse(s) | Mary E. Challinor |
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Main interests
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Practical reasoning, moral reasoning and bioethics |
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Henry S. Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD is an American philosopher, author, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Henry S. Richardson is the son of Anne Richardson, who was once the chair of Reading is Fundamental, and the politician and lawyer Elliot Richardson.
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, both in 1981. In 1986, Richardson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from Harvard University.
Richardson's main work has centred on practical reasoning. His first book, Practical Reasoning about Final Ends, focussed on individual reasoning, whilst his second book, Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy, which won the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award in Public Administration, and the David Easton Award in the Foundations of Political Theory, dealt with collective reasoning.
In recent years Richardson's research has concentrated on bioethics. He has twice been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Bioethics at the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health.
In July 2008 he was appointed as Editor to the academic journal Ethics. Since 2010, 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.
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