Horace Romano Harré

New Zealand philosopher and psychologist (1927–2019)

In the history of thought, Horace Romano Harré is one of the names that keeps being returned to.

The record lists Horace Romano Harré as New Zealand philosopher and psychologist (1927–2019).

Horace Romano Harré was born at Āpiti in 1927. His recorded nationality is New Zealand. He studied at University of New Zealand and University College, Oxford.

Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.

His academic posts were held at London School of Economics and Political Science, Georgetown University and King's College, Auckland.

The recorded fields of work are philosophy.

The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.

That the work was done from New Zealand matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Horace Romano Harré died in 2019, aged 92. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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