Richard J. Norman, BA (Cantab), PhD (London), is a British academic,
philosopher
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and
humanist. He is currently
Emeritus
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Professor of
Moral Philosophy
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at the
University of Kent, and a patron of
Humanists UK
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.
Life
Norman formerly taught philosophy at the University of Kent, where his areas of interest were mainly
moral
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and
political philosophy, including both theoretical and practical
ethics.
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Works
His published works include:
* ''The Moral Philosophers'' (1983)
* ''Free and Equal'' (1987)
* ''Ethics, Killing and War'' (1995)
* ''On Humanism'' (2004, 2012)
* ''Religion and Atheism'' (2017, Editor)
References
External links
''Beyond belief'': article by Richard Norman
in the '' New Humanist'', November 2009
''Can There be a Just War?''
article first published in ''Think'' magazine
Living people
British humanists
20th-century British philosophers
21st-century British philosophers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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