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Henry S. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and an Emeritus Senior Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. At Harvard, he earned graduate degrees in law and in public policy and his Ph.D. in philosophy (with John Rawls; Martha Nussbaum supervised his Master’s thesis). He works in moral and political philosophy.
He is the author of the following books:
Practical Reasoning about Final Ends (Cambridge, 1994);
Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford, 2002).
Moral Entanglements: The Ancillary-Care Obligations of Medical Researchers (Oxford, 2012).
Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism (Oxford, 2018). Read the 2023 symposium on this book in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research or listen to the New Books in Philosophy podcast on the book.
Dr. Richardson was the editor of Ethics (2008-2018) and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2019–20.