R. M. Hare

www.utilitarian.net/hare

Practical issues are issues over which people are prepared to fight and kill one another; and it may be that unless some way is found of talking about them rationally and with hope of agreement, violence will finally engulf the world.

Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method, and Point, Oxford, 1981, p. v

Latest Updates

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March 21, 2007

Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919-2002. By A. W. Price. Proceedings of the British Academy, 2004.

November 18, 2005

Review of An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics. By Stephen Edelston Toulmin. The Philosophical Quarterly, July, 1951.

Review of What Is Value? By Everett W. Hall. Mind, April, 1954.

Review of An Enquiry into Goodness. By F. E. Sparshott. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1960.

Review of Generalization in Ethics. By Marcus George Singer. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1962.

Review of Norm and Action. By Georg Henrik von Wright. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1965.

Review of Freedom of the Individual. By Stuart Hampshire. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1967.

Review of Contemporary Moral Philosophy. By G. J. Warnock. Mind, July, 1968.

Review of The Structure of Morality. By Héctor-Neri Castañeda. The Journal of Philosophy, August 12, 1976.

Review of The Philosophy of Right and Wrong. By Bernard Mayo. The Philosophial Quarterly, October, 1987.

October 22, 2005

Plato, Hare and Davidson on Akrasia. By C. C. W. Taylor. Mind, October, 1980.

Is Hare a Naturalist? By H. M. Robinson. The Philosophical Review, January, 1982.

Hare's Argument for Utilitarianism. By Michael McDermott. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1983.

Hare on Supervenience. By A. J. Dale. Mind, October, 1985.

Hare on Moral Weakness and the Definition of Morality. By William Frankena. Ethics, July, 1988.

October 1, 2005

A Note on Hare on Imagining Oneself in the Place of Others. By Harry S. Silverstein. Mind, July, 1972.

Working in and Working to Principles. By Edward W. James. Ethics, October, 1972.

A Note on R. M. Hare and the Paradox of the Good Samaritan. By Harold Zellner. Mind, April, 1973.

Hare's Use of Hume's Fork. By Barbara A. MacKinnon. Ethics, July, 1974.

Hare's Golde-Rule Argument. By Michael H. Robins. Mind, October, 1974.

Hare, Abortion, and the Golden Rule. By George Sher. Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter, 1977.

Hare and Fanaticism. By Alan Gettner. Ethics, January, 1977.

Fanaticism and Hare's Moral Theory. By Robert K. Fullinwider. Ethics, January, 1977.

September 27, 2005

Hare, Singer, Gewirth on Universalizability. By W. Gregory Lycan. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1969.

Hare's Argument from Linguistic Change. By James W. Nickel. Ethics, July, 1969.

Hare on the Meaning of "Good". By Charles Daniels. Mind, January, 1970.

Hare's Failure to Define Good Reasons. By Paul J. Olscamp. Mind, April, 1970.

Hare on Meaning and Speech Acts. By G. J. Warnock. The Philosophical Review, January, 1971.

What Kant Might Say to Hare. By Hugh Mercer Curtler. Mind, April, 1971.

Hare's View of Morality. By M. T. Thornton. Mind, October, 1971.

Is Hare's Prescriptivism Morally Neutral? By William Lyons. Ethics, April, 1972.

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Writings by R. M. Hare

[books / book excerpts]

· How to Argue with an Anti-Utilitarian. Excerpted from Moral Thinking, Oxford, 1981.

[articles]

· Imperative Sentences. Mind, January, 1949.

· Are Discoveries about the Uses of Words Empirical? The Journal of Philosophy, November 7, 1957.

· Philosophical Discoveries. Mind, April, 1960.

· Some Alleged Differences between Imperatives and Indicatives. Mind, July, 1967.

· Meaning and Speech Acts. The Philosophical Review, January, 1970.

· Rules of War and Moral Reasoning. Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter, 1972.

· Rawls' Theory of Justice --I. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1973.

· Rawls' Theory of Justice --II. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1973.

· Abortion and the Golden Rule. Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring 1975.

· Opportunity for What? Oxford Review of Education, 1977.

· Moral Conflicts. The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, 1979.

· What is Wrong with Slavery. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1979.

· Utilitarianism and Double Standards. Oxford Review of Education, 1982.

· Some Reasoning about Preferences. Ethics, October, 1984.

· Some Sub-Atomic Particles of Logic. Mind, January, 1989.

· Could Kant Have Been a Utilitarian? Utilitas, 1993.

[reviews]

· An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics. By Stephen Edelston Toulmin. The Philosophical Quarterly, July, 1951.

· What Is Value? By Everett W. Hall. Mind, April, 1954.

· An Enquiry into Goodness. By F. E. Sparshott. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1960.

· Generalization in Ethics. By Marcus George Singer. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1962.

· Norm and Action. By Georg Henrik von Wright. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1965.

· Freedom of the Individual. By Stuart Hampshire. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1967.

· Contemporary Moral Philosophy. By G. J. Warnock. Mind, July, 1968.

· The Structure of Morality. By Héctor-Neri Castañeda. The Journal of Philosophy, August 12, 1976.

· The Philosophy of Right and Wrong. By Bernard Mayo. The Philosophial Quarterly, October, 1987.

[miscellaneous]

· A Philosophical Self-Portrait. The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, 1997.

Writings about R. M. Hare

[dictionary / encyclopaedia entries]

· Richard Mervyn Hare. Free Online Dictionary of Philosophy.

· Richard Mervyn Hare. One Hundred Philosophers.

· Richard Mervyn Hare. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

· Richard Mervyn Hare. Wikipedia.

[other writings]

· R. M. Hare on Imperative Sentences. By A. F. Peters. Mind, October, 1949.

· Mr. Hare on the Roles of Principles in Deciding. By E. M. Adams. Mind, January, 1956.

· Mr. Hare on Theology and Falsification. By H. J. N. Horsburgh. The Philosophical Quarterly, July, 1956.

· Objectivism and Mr. Hare's Language of Morals. By Sidney Zink. Mind, January, 1957.

· The Refutation of Naturalism in Moore and Hare. By Roger Hancock. The Journal of Philosophy, May 12, 1960.

· Can I Do What I Think I Ought Not?. By M. C. McGuire. Mind, July, 1961.

· A Note on Hare's The Language of Morals. By Roger Hancock. The Philosophical Quarterly, January, 1963.

· Hare's Argument Against Ethical Naturalism. By Svetozar Stojanovic. Mind, April, 1963.

· A Note on Hare's Analysis of "Good". By D. A. Lloyd Thomas. Mind, October, 1963.

· Aesthetics and Hare's Analysis of "Good". By D. A. Lloyd Thomas. The Philosophical Quarterly, August, 1964.

· Hare on Descriptive Meaning Rules. By G. N. A. Vesey. Mind, October, 1965.

· Hare's Account of Moral Reasoning. By David S. Scarrow. Ethics, January, 1966.

· R. M. Hare's Reformulation of the Open Question. By John F. Lange. Mind, April, 1966.

· Plato and the Mathematicians: An Examination of Professor Hare's Views. By C. C. W. Taylor. The Philosophical Quarterly, July, 1967.

· Hare's Arguments Against Ethical Naturalism. By L. W. Sumner. The Journal of Philosophy, December 7, 1967.

· On Hare's "Better". By M. K. Rennie. Noûs, February, 1968.

· Hare's Debtors. By David P. Gauthier. Mind, July, 1968.

· R. M. Hare and Moral Reasoning. By Gilbert Harman. Mind, July, 1968.

· Why Hare Must Hound the Goods. By Peter H. Hare & Edward H. Madden. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March, 1969.

· Hare, Singer, Gewirth on Universalizability. By W. Gregory Lycan. The Philosophical Quarterly, April, 1969.

· Hare's Argument from Linguistic Change. By James W. Nickel. Ethics, July, 1969.

· Hare on the Meaning of "Good". By Charles Daniels. Mind, January, 1970.

· Hare's Failure to Define Good Reasons. By Paul J. Olscamp. Mind, April, 1970.

· Hare on Meaning and Speech Acts. By G. J. Warnock. The Philosophical Review, January, 1971.

· What Kant Might Say to Hare. By Hugh Mercer Curtler. Mind, April, 1971.

· Hare's View of Morality. By M. T. Thornton. Mind, October, 1971.

· Is Hare's Prescriptivism Morally Neutral? By William Lyons. Ethics, April, 1972.

· A Note on Hare on Imagining Oneself in the Place of Others. By Harry S. Silverstein. Mind, July, 1972.

· Working in and Working to Principles. By Edward W. James. Ethics, October, 1972.

· A Note on R. M. Hare and the Paradox of the Good Samaritan. By Harold Zellner. Mind, April, 1973.

· Hare's Use of Hume's Fork. By Barbara A. MacKinnon. Ethics, July, 1974.

· Hare's Golde-Rule Argument. By Michael H. Robins. Mind, October, 1974.

· Hare, Abortion, and the Golden Rule. By George Sher. Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter, 1977.

· Hare and Fanaticism. By Alan Gettner. Ethics, January, 1977.

· Fanaticism and Hare's Moral Theory. By Robert K. Fullinwider. Ethics, January, 1977.

· Liberalism, Utilitarianism, and Fanaticism. By Jan Narveson. Ethics, April, 1978.

· Justice, Social Contract, and Universal Prescriptivism. By M. H. Lessnoff. The Philosophical Quarterly, January, 1978.

· Liberalism, Utilitarianism, and Fanaticism. By Jan Narveson. Ethics, April, 1978.

· Plato, Hare and Davidson on Akrasia. By C. C. W. Taylor. Mind, October, 1980.

· Is Hare a Naturalist? By H. M. Robinson. The Philosophical Review, January, 1982.

· Hare's Argument for Utilitarianism. By Michael McDermott. The Philosophical Quarterly, October, 1983.

· Hare on Supervenience. By A. J. Dale. Mind, October, 1985.

· From Universal Prescriptivism to Utilitarianism. By J. W. Roxbee Cox. The Philosophical Quarterly, January, 1986.

· Hare on Moral Weakness and the Definition of Morality. By William Frankena. Ethics, July, 1988.

· Biographical Notes. By Mariko Okuno. 1998.

· Hare-Index Test. By Harry J. Gensler. 1998.

· Sidgwick's Three Principles and Hare's Universalizability. By Soshichi Uchii. Memoir of the Graduate School of Letters, 1999.

· Harey Animals. By Gary Varner. 2002.

· Moral Supervenience and Moral Thinking. By Dalla Drai. Disputatio, 2000.

· A Memoir. By John Randolph Lucas. Balliol Record, 2002.

· Richard Hare. By Jane O'Grady. The Guardian, February 1, 2002.

· Philosopher Who Argued for Logic in Moral Questions. Daily Telegraph, February 4, 2002.

· Professor R. M. Hare. By C. C. W. Taylor. The Independent, February 6, 2002.

· R. M. Hare's Achievements in Moral Philosophy. By Peter Singer. Utilitas, May 25, 2002.

· R. M. Hare: A Memorial Address. By John Hare. Utilitas, May 25, 2002.

· R. M. Hare. By Jordan Howard Sobel. Excerpted from Good and Gold, 2003, chaps. xi-xiv.

· Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919-2002. By A. W. Price. Proceedings of the British Academy, 2004.

[reviews]

· Sorting Out Ethics. By Ben Eggleston. Mind, 2000.

· Sorting Out Ethics. By Georg Kamp. Poiesis Prax, 2001.

Interviews

· R. M. Hare in Conversation. With Peter Momtchiloff. 1999.

Miscellaneous

· An Annotated Bibliography. By Keith Burgess-Jackson.

· Professor Richard Mervyn Hare. Balliol College.

part of Pablo Stafforini's Utilitarian Philosophers series

David Hume · Jeremy Bentham · William Godwin · James Mill

John Stuart Mill · Henry Sidgwick · R. M. Hare · Peter Singer

If Hare's position is right, his work has achieved three remarkable results: it has vindicated consequentialism as an ethical theory; it has reconciled consequentialism and Kant's method of moral reasoning (not, of course, Kant's actual moral views); and it has shown that reason has a substantial role to play in ethics.

Peter Singer