Horace Romano Harré

Horace Romano Harré (born 1927 in New Zealand), known widely as Rom, is a distinguished philosopher and psychologist

[edit] Studies

He graduated in mathematics and physics and he afterwards lectured at the University of Punjab, India. He continued his studies studying philosophy and anthropology and eventually he did a B. Phil. at the University of Oxford under the supervision of J.L. Austin. He currently teaches part-time at American University in Washington, D.C.

Harré has written on a wide variety of subjects which includes: philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, ontology, psychology and philosophy.

Key Thinkers in Psychology, London: Sage, 2006.
(With M. Tissaw) Wittgenstein and Psychology, Basingstoke, UK: Ashgate, 2005.
Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Introduction, Los Angeles: Sage, 2001.
Princess Diana and the emotionology of contemporary Britain, International Journal of Group Tensions, 30, 29-38, 2001.
(With L. van Langenhove) Positioning Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
(With Charles R. Varela) "Conflicting Varieties of Realism: Causal Powers and the Problems of Social Structure." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26.3 (September 1996): 313-325.
(With Grant Gillett) The Discursive Mind London: Sage, 1994.
Varieties of Realism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
(With Jerrold L. Aronson & Eileen Cornell Way) Realism rescued: how scientific progress is possible London, Duckworth, 1994
(With Michael Krausz) Varieties of Relativism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Personal Being, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
Physical Being: a theory for a corporal psychology, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991.
Social Being: A Theory for a Social Psychology II, Oxford: Blackwell, 1979.
(With Edward H. Madden) Causal Powers, Oxford: Blackwell, 1975.
(With Paul F. Secord) The Explanation of Social Behaviour, Oxford: Blackwell, 1972.

Academic Genealogy
Notable teachers	Notable students
J.L. Austin	Roy Bhaskar

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