Primary Literature

(For a complete listing of publications, see Hare 1997a: 167–82, updated in 2000 reprint.)

• unpublished (early 1940s), “An Essay in Monism”, Balliol College Archive. (I quote from the typescript, within which chs 1–12 are numbered in type pp. 1–120, after which a new pagination starts in pencil.) (Scholar)
• unpublished (1949–50), “Moral Objectivity”, Balliol College Archive. (Scholar)
• unpublished (1950), “Practical Reason”, Balliol College Archive. (Scholar)
• 1949, “Imperative Sentences”, Mind, 58: 21–39; reprinted in Hare 1971a: 1–21. (Scholar)
• 1950/1, “Theology and Falsification”, University, 1 (Winter); reprinted in 1992a: 37–9 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1952, The Language of Morals, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1954/5, “Universalizability”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 55: 295–312; reprinted in Hare 1972b: 13–28. (Scholar)
• 1955, “Ethics and Politics”, The Listener, 54 (13 October): 593–4; 55 (20 October): 651–2; the first installment was reprinted as “Can I Be Blamed for Obeying Orders?”, Hare 1972a: 1–8. (Scholar)
• 1957, “Geach: Good and Evil”, Analysis, 18: 103–12. (Scholar)
• 1959, “Nothing Matters”, published in French in La Philosophie Analytique, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit; reprinted in English in 1972a: 32–47. (Scholar)
• 1963, Freedom and Reason, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1964, “A Question about Plato’s Theory of Ideas”, in M. Bunge (ed.), The Critical Approach, Essays in Honor of Karl Popper, Glencoe IL: Free Press of Glencoe; reprinted in 1971b: 54–79 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1967, “Some Alleged Differences between Indicatives and Imperatives”, Mind, 76: 309–26; reprinted in Hare 1971a: 25–43 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1968, “Wanting, Some Pitfalls”, in R. Binkley (ed.), Agent, Action and Reason (Proceedings of the University of Western Ontario Colloquium); reprinted in Hare 1971a: 44–58. (Scholar)
• 1969, “Practical Inferences”, in V. Kruse (ed.), Festskrift til Alf Ross, Copenhagen: Juristvorbundets Vorlag; reprinted in Hare 1971a: 59–73 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1970, “Meaning and Speech Acts”, Philosophical Review, 79: 3–24; reprinted in Hare 1971a: 74–93. (Scholar)
• 1971a, Practical Inferences, London: Macmillan.
• 1971b, Essays on Philosophical Method, London: Macmillan.
• 1972a, Applications of Moral Philosophy, London: Macmillan.
• 1972b, Essays on the Moral Concepts, London: Macmillan.
• 1972c, “Wrongness and Harm”, in 1972b: 92–109.
• 1973, “The Simple Believer”, in G. Outka & J.P. Reeder (eds), Religion and Morality, New York: Anchor Press; reprinted in 1992a: 1–36 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1975, “Abortion and the Golden Rule”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 4: 201–22; reprinted in 1993a: 147–67. (Scholar)
• 1976, “Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism”, in H.D. Lewis (ed.), Contemporary British Philosophy 4^th Series, London: Allen & Unwin; reprinted in 1989a: 212–30. (Scholar)
• 1978, “Relevance”, in A.I. Goldman & J. Kim (eds), Values and Morals, Dordrecht: Reidel; reprinted (with second thoughts) in Hare 1989a: 191–211. (Scholar)
• 1981, Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1982, Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 1985, “Ontology in Ethics”, in T. Honderich (ed.), Morality and Objectivity: A Tribute to J.L. Mackie, London: Routledge; reprinted in 1989a: 82–98. (Scholar)
• 1988a, “Comments”, in Seanor & Fotion (eds) 1988: 199–293. (Scholar)
• 1988b, “When does Potentiality Count?”, Bioethics, 2: 214–26; reprinted in Hare 1993a: 84–97. (Scholar)
• 1988c, “A Kantian Approach to Abortion”, in M. Bayles & K. Henley (eds), Right Conduct, New York: Random House; reprinted in Hare 1993a: 168–84. (Scholar)
• 1989a, Essays in Ethical Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1989b, Essays on Political Morality, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1989c, “Some Sub-Atomic Particles of Logic”, Mind, 98: 23–37; reprinted in Hare 1999: 28–42. (Scholar)
• 1992a, Essays on Religion and Education, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1992b, “Weakness of the Will”, in L. Becker (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ethics, New York: Garland; reprinted in Hare 1999: 109–14. (Scholar)
• 1993a, Essays on Bioethics, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1993b, “Could Kant have been a Utilitarian?”, Utilitas, 5: 1–16; revised in 1997a: 147–65. (Scholar)
• 1997a, Sorting Out Ethics, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1997b, “Preferences of Possible People”, in C. Fehige & U. Wessels (eds), Preferences, Berlin: De Gruyter; reprinted in Hare 1999: 126–31. (Scholar)
• 1998, “Prescriptivism”, in E. Craig (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy,London: Routledge; reprinted in Hare 1999: 19–27 (page-reference in text to reprint). (Scholar)
• 1999, Objective Prescriptions and Other Essays, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 2002, “A Philosophical Autobiography”, Utilitas, 14: 269–305. (Scholar)

Secondary and Other Literature

• Adu-Amankwah, P.A., 1997, The Moral Philosophy of R.M. Hare: A Vindication of Utilitarianism?, New York: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Alwood, A., 2010, “Imperative Clauses and the Frege–Geach Problem”, Analysis, 70: 105–17. (Scholar)
• Biesenbach, H., 1982, Zur Logik der moralischen Argumentation: Die Theorie Richard M. Hares und die Entwicklung der analytischen Ethik, Düsseldorf: Patmos Verlag. (Scholar)
• Brandt, R.B., 1979, A Theory of the Good and the Right, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Eggers, D., 2016, “Nothing New in Ecumenia? Hare, Hybrid Expressivism and de Dicto Beliefs”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19: 831–47. (Scholar)
• Eriksson J., 2009, “Homage to Hare: Ecumenism and the Frege-Geach Problem”, Ethics, 120: 8–35. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Hybrid Expressivism”, in M. Ridge & G. Fletcher eds, Having it Both Ways: Hybrid Theories and Modern Metaethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 149–70. (Scholar)
• Fehige, C. & U. Wessels (eds), 1998, Preferences, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Foot, P., 1978, Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell; reprinted in 2002, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Natural Goodness, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Forschler, S., 2013, “Kantian and Consequentialist Ethics: The Gap Can Be Bridged”, Metaphilosophy, 44: 88–104. (Scholar)
• Geach, P.T., 1956, “Good and Evil”, Analysis, 17: 33–42. (Scholar)
• –––, 1965, “Assertion”, Philosophical Review, 74: 449–65; reprinted in his Logic Matters, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972: 254–69. (Scholar)
• Hallich, O., 2000, Richard Hares Moralphilosophie, Freiburg/München: Alber Verlag. (Scholar)
• Hare, J.E., 2002, “A Memorial Address”, Utilitas, 14: 306–8. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, God and Morality, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Hudson, W.D., 1983, Modern Moral Philosophy, 2^nd edn, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Hunt, L., 1999, “Flourishing Egoism”, Social Philosophy and Policy, 16: 72–95. (Scholar)
• Ibberson, J., 1986, The Language of Decision: An Essay in Prescriptivist Ethical Theory, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Irwin, T., 2009, The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study (Volume III: From Kant to Rawls), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kalokairinou, E.M., 2011, From Meta-Ethics to Ethics: An Overview of R.M. Hare’s Moral Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Kenny, A., 1966, “Practical Inference”, Analysis, 26: 65–75. (Scholar)
• –––, 1975, Will, Freedom and Power, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Lucas, J.R., 2002, Obituary of R.M. Hare, Balliol Annual Record: 30–2. (Scholar)
• Lucien, P., 1976, Empirisme, logique et langage religieux: Trois approches anglo-saxonnes contemporaines: R.B. Braithwaite, R.M. Hare, I.T. Ramsey, Montreal: Bellarmin. (Scholar)
• MacKay, A.F., 1969, “Inferential Validity and Imperative Inference Rules”, Analysis, 29: 145–56. (Scholar)
• Mackie, J.L., 1977, Ethics, Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Scholar)
• –––, 1985, Persons and Values: Selected Papers Volume II, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mehta, V., 1962, Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (Scholar)
• Murdoch, I., 1956, “Vision and Choice in Morality”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume), 30: 32–58. (Scholar)
• Price, A.W., 2004a, “Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919–2002”, Proceedings of the British Academy, 124: 117–37. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004b, “On the so-called Logic of Practical Inference”, in A. O’Hear (ed.), Modern Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Supplement 54: 119–40. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Hare, Richard Mervyn”, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, Contextuality in Practical Reason, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Ridge, M., 2006, “Ecumenical Expressivism: Finessing Frege”, Ethics, 116: 302–36. (Scholar)
• Rønnow-Rasmussen, T., 1993, Logic, Facts and Representation: An Examination of R.M. Hare’s Philosophy, Lund: Lund University Press. (Scholar)
• Ryle, G., 1950, “If, So, and Because”, in M. Black (ed.), Philosophical Analysis, Cornell: Cornell University Press; reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), London: Hutchinson, 1971, 234–49. (Scholar)
• Seanor, D. & Fotion, N. (eds), 1988, Hare and Critics: Essays on Moral Thinking, Oxford: Clarendon Press; contributions by D. Seanor & N. Fotion, W.D. Hudson, R.B. Brandt, W.K. Frankena, A. Gibbard, J. Griffin, J.C. Harsanyi, T. Nagel, D.A.J. Richards, T.M. Scanlon, P. Singer, J.O. Urmson, Z. Vendler, B. Williams. (Scholar)
• Shibasaki, F., 1994, Formalismus und Fanatismus: Eine Untersuchung zur Moralphilosophie R.M. Hares, Sydney: Kovac. (Scholar)
• Singer, P., 2002, “R.M. Hare’s Achievements in Moral Philosophy”, Utilitas, 14: 309–17. (Scholar)
• Smart, J.J.C. & Williams, B., 1983, Utilitarianism, For and Against, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Smith, M., 2001, “Some Not-Much Discussed Problems for Non-Cognitivism in Ethics”, Ratio, 4: 93–115. (Scholar)
• Timmermann, J., 2005, “Why Kant Could Not Have Been a Utilitarian”, Utilitas, 17: 243–64. (Scholar)
• Varner, G.E., 2012, Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two Level Utilitarianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Vendler, Z., 1988, “Changing Places?”, in Seanor & Fotion (eds): 171–83. (Scholar)
• Warnock, G.J., 1967, Contemporary Moral Philosophy, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Wiggins, D., 2009, Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Williams, B., 1962/3, “Imperative Inference”, Analysis, suppl. 23: 30–6. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988, “The Structure of Hare’s Theory”, in Seanor & Fotion (eds): 185–96. (Scholar)
• Wym, K.D., 2005, Crucible of Reason: Intentional Action, Practical Rationality, and Weakness of Will, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)