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R. M. Hare, the Glossary

Richard Mervyn Hare (21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R. M.^[1]

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British social philosophers
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A. J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989) was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). R. M. Hare and a. J. Ayer are 20th-century British non-fiction writers, analytic philosophers, Aristotelian philosophers and Presidents of the Aristotelian Society.

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Aaron Sloman

Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

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Akrasia

Akrasia (Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command" or "weakness", occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of mental strength or willpower, or the tendency to act against one's better judgment.

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Allan Gibbard

Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. R. M. Hare and Allan Gibbard are analytic philosophers, Consequentialists and utilitarians.

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Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis.

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Animal rights movement

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.

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Applied ethics

Applied ethics is the practical aspect of moral considerations.

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Aristotelian Society

The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, more generally known as the Aristotelian Society, is a philosophical society in London.

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Backwell

Backwell is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset and in 2011 had a population of 4,589.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Bernard Williams

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams are analytic philosophers, British ethicists and White's Professors of Moral Philosophy.

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Brian McGuinness

Brian McGuinness (22 October 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Wittgenstein scholar best known for his translation, with David Pears, of the ''Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus'', and for his biography of the first half of Wittgenstein's life. R. M. Hare and Brian McGuinness are 20th-century British non-fiction writers, 20th-century British philosophers, 21st-century British non-fiction writers, 21st-century British philosophers, analytic philosophers, British male non-fiction writers and Wittgensteinian philosophers.

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Categorical imperative

The categorical imperative (kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

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Charles Stevenson (philosopher)

Charles Leslie Stevenson (June 27, 1908 – March 14, 1979) was an American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics. R. M. Hare and Charles Stevenson (philosopher) are analytic philosophers.

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Consequentialism

In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Definite description

In formal semantics and philosophy of language, a definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun.

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Denys Turner

Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian.

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Deontology

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: +) is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.

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Derek Parfit

Derek Antony Parfit (11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. R. M. Hare and Derek Parfit are analytic philosophers and British ethicists.

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Emotivism

Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Ewelme

Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, north-east of the market town of Wallingford.

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Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford was founded in 2001.

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Fall of Singapore

The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War.

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Gary Varner

Gary Edward Varner (March 10, 1957 – June 28, 2023) was an American philosopher specializing in environmental ethics, philosophical questions related to animal rights and animal welfare, and R. M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism. R. M. Hare and Gary Varner are analytic philosophers, Consequentialists and utilitarians.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems. R. M. Hare and Gilbert Ryle are analytic philosophers, Aristotelian philosophers, Presidents of the Aristotelian Society and Wittgensteinian philosophers.

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Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them.

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H. H. Price

Henry Habberley Price (17 May 1899 – 26 November 1984), usually cited as H. H. Price, was a Welsh philosopher, known for his work on the philosophy of perception. R. M. Hare and h. H. Price are 20th-century British philosophers, analytic philosophers and Presidents of the Aristotelian Society.

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Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick (31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. R. M. Hare and Henry Sidgwick are British ethicists, British political philosophers, Consequentialists, People educated at Rugby School and utilitarians.

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Hilary Putnam

Hilary Whitehall Putnam (July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. R. M. Hare and Hilary Putnam are analytic philosophers.

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Honours degree

Honours degree has various meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. R. M. Hare and Jeremy Bentham are British ethicists, Consequentialists and utilitarians.

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John E. Hare

John Edmund Hare (born 26 July 1949) is a British classicist, philosopher, ethicist, and currently the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. R. M. Hare and John E. Hare are analytic philosophers.

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John Lucas (philosopher)

John Randolph Lucas (18 June 1929 – 5 April 2020) was a British philosopher. R. M. Hare and John Lucas (philosopher) are analytic philosophers, Anglican philosophers and English Anglicans.

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Literae humaniores

Literae humaniores, nicknamed classics, is an undergraduate course focused on classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek, and philosophy) at the University of Oxford and some other universities.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. R. M. Hare and Ludwig Wittgenstein are 20th-century British non-fiction writers, 20th-century British philosophers, analytic philosophers and Wittgensteinian philosophers.

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Martha Kneale

Martha Kneale (née Hurst; 14 August 1909 – 2 December 2001) was a British philosopher. R. M. Hare and Martha Kneale are 20th-century British philosophers and Presidents of the Aristotelian Society.

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In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment.

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Moral particularism

Moral particularism is a theory in meta-ethics that runs counter to the idea that moral actions can be determined by applying universal moral principles.

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Ordinary language philosophy

Ordinary language philosophy (OLP) is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in non-philosophical contexts.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. R. M. Hare and Peter Singer are analytic philosophers and utilitarians.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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Preference utilitarianism

Preference utilitarianism (also known as preferentialism) is a form of utilitarianism in contemporary philosophy.

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Prescriptivity

Prescriptivity is a term used in meta-ethics to state that when an evaluative judgment or decision is made it must either prescribe or condemn.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Proper noun

A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy

The White's Chair of Moral Philosophy was endowed in 1621 by Thomas White (c. 1550–1624), Canon of Christ Church as the oldest professorial post in philosophy at the University of Oxford.

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Stroke

Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.

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Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Two-level utilitarianism

Two-level utilitarianism is a utilitarian theory of ethics developed by R. M. Hare.

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Universal prescriptivism

Universal prescriptivism (often simply called prescriptivism) is the meta-ethical view that claims that, rather than expressing propositions, ethical sentences function similarly to imperatives which are universalizable—whoever makes a moral judgment is committed to the same judgment in any situation where the same relevant facts pertain.

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Universalizability

The concept of universalizability was set out by the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

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University Church of St Mary the Virgin

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin (St Mary's or SMV for short) is an Anglican church in Oxford situated on the north side of the High Street.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Utilitarianism

In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals.

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Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.

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William Kneale

William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. R. M. Hare and William Kneale are Presidents of the Aristotelian Society and White's Professors of Moral Philosophy.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._M._Hare

Also known as R M Hare, R.M. Hare, RM Hare, Richard M. Hare, Richard Mervyn Hare.

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