Bob Brecher (born 1949) is a British philosopher and Professor of

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at the

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. He is known for his expertise on

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. Brecher is co-director of Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and a former president of Association for Social and Political Philosophy (2000-2003). He founded '' Res Publica'' in 1995.

Books

* ''Anselm's Argument: the Logic of Divine Existence'' (Gower, 1985) * '' Torture and the Ticking Bomb'' (Blackwell, 2007) * ''Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality'' (Routledge, 1997)

Edited

* ''Liberalism and the New Europe'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebury, 1993) * ''The University in a Liberal State'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebury, 1996) * ''Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order'', with Jo Halliday and Klára Kolinská (Avebury, 1998) * ''The New Order of War'' (Rodopi, 2010) * ''Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror'', with Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter (Routledge, 2010)

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Bob Brecher
21st-century British philosophers Philosophy academics Living people 1949 births Political philosophers Academics of the University of Brighton Alumni of the University of Kent Academic staff of the University of Khartoum {{UK-philosopher-stub