Charles Everett Larmore (born 23 March 1950) is an American philosopher. He is the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University,noted for his writings on political liberalism as well as on various topics in moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Larmore received his A.B. at Harvard (1972) and his Ph.D. at Yale (1978). He taught for many years in the philosophy department at Columbia University,and then as the Chester D. Tripp Professor and the Raymond W. &Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago in philosophy and political science.[1]
Philosophical work
He has been a defender of political liberalism along with John Rawls,as well as a contributor to moral philosophy (moral realism,the nature of the self) and to the history of philosophy from the 16th to the 20th centuries (including such figures as Montaigne,Descartes,Bayle,Kant,Hölderlin,Schopenhauer,Nietzsche,Sartre). His most recent work focuses on the nature of reason and reasons.
Prizes,awards and membership in societies
Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Académie française (2004) for Les Pratiques du Moi[2]
Larmore,C. (2004) Les pratiques du moi,Presses Universitaires de France (English translation:Practices of the Self,2010,University of Chicago Press ISBN9780226468877)
Larmore, C. (2004) Débat sur l'éthique. Idéalisme ou réalisme (with Alain Renaut), Grasset
Larmore, C. (2008) The Autonomy of Morality, Cambridge University Press[6]
Larmore, C. (2008) Dare ragioni. Il soggetto, l'etica, la politica, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino
Larmore, C. (2009) Dernières nouvelles du moi (with Vincent Descombes), Presses Universitaires de France
Larmore, C. (2012) Vernunft und Subjektivität, Suhrkamp Verlag
Larmore, C. (2017) Das Selbst in seinem Verhältnis zu sich und zu anderen, Klostermann Verlag (Rote Reihe)
↑ Card, Claudia (January 1999). "Review: The Morals of Modernity by Charles Larmore". Mind. New Series. 108 (429): 184–187. JSTOR2659914.
↑ Bagnoli, Carla (October 2009). "Review: The Autonomy of Morality by Charles Larmore". The Philosophical Review. 118 (4): 536–540. doi:10.1215/00318108-2009-018. JSTOR41441913.
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