Berkley Center

Henry S. Richardson is a professor of philosophy and senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and was a co-leader of the 2014-2015 Moral Innovation Seminar sponsored by the Normative Orders Collaborative. His current work focuses on moral reasoning; his research and teaching also addresses practical reasoning in general, political theory, and medical researchers' ancillary-care obligations. He is the author of Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (2003), The Philosophy of Rawls (1999), Practical Reasoning about Final Ends (1997), and Liberalism and the Good (1990, co-edited with Gerald Mara and R. B. Douglass), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Richardson holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.