| Horace Romano Harré | |
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| Born | 1927 New Zealand |
| Occupation | academic |
Horace Romano Harré (born 1927 in New Zealand), known widely as Rom Harré, is a distinguished philosopher and psychologist.
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He graduated in mathematics and physics and he afterwards lectured at the University of Punjab, Pakistan. 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. For a short period, he lectured part-time at American University in Washington, D.C. He is at present a professor at Georgetown University and the director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics.
Harré has written on a wide variety of subjects which includes: philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, ontology, psychology, social psychology, sociology and philosophy. He was an important early influence on the British philosophical movement Critical Realism, publishing Causal Powers with Madden in 1975, the same year as A Realist Theory of Science. He supervised Roy Bhaskar's doctoral studies, and has continued to maintain close involvement with realism. He also supervised Patrick Baert and Jonathan Smith (psychologist)'s doctoral studies, respectively in social theory and social psychology. Another one of Harré's distinctive contributions was to the understanding of the social self in micro sociology, which he called "ethogenics:" this method attempts to understand the systems of belief or means by which individuals can attach significance to their actions and form their identities, in addition to the structure of rules and cultural resources that underlie these actions.[1]
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| J.L. Austin | Roy Bhaskar, Patrick Baert, Jonathan Smith (psychologist) |