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'''Richard Baron''' (born 1958) is a [[philosophy|philosopher]] living in London. He was educated at [[Aylesbury Grammar School]] and at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]]. |
'''Richard Baron''' (born 1958) is a [[philosophy|philosopher]] living in London. He was educated at [[Aylesbury Grammar School]] and at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]]. |
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His first book, ''Projects and Values'', |
His first book, ''Projects and Values'', |
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virtue ethic, against the background of a structured approach to the cultural relativity of value-concepts and a conception of the human subject that is inspired by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]. |
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His second book, ''Deliberation and Reason'', analyses our processes of deliberation. He argues that we have to see ourselves as enjoying a freedom that is incompatible with determinism, in order to support our self-conception as self-directed subjects. He then argues that we can see ourselves as having that kind of freedom if we overlook the causal closure of the physical, and that this vision of ourselves can sit alongside the scientific account of ourselves. |
His second book, ''Deliberation and Reason'', analyses our processes of deliberation. He argues that we have to see ourselves as enjoying a freedom that is incompatible with determinism, in order to support our self-conception as self-directed subjects. He then argues that we can see ourselves as having that kind of freedom if we overlook the causal closure of the physical, and that this vision of ourselves can sit alongside the scientific account of ourselves. |
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Richard Baron (born 1958) is a philosopher living in London. He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
His first book, Projects and Values,
RICHARD BARON IS GAY
virtue ethic, against the background of a structured approach to the cultural relativity of value-concepts and a conception of the human subject that is inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
His second book, Deliberation and Reason, analyses our processes of deliberation. He argues that we have to see ourselves as enjoying a freedom that is incompatible with determinism, in order to support our self-conception as self-directed subjects. He then argues that we can see ourselves as having that kind of freedom if we overlook the causal closure of the physical, and that this vision of ourselves can sit alongside the scientific account of ourselves.
He has also published articles in Philosophy Now (February 2006) and in Ethical Record (July 2005 and May 2006).
He is also an adviser on tax policy, formerly for the British Government and currently for the Institute of Directors.