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Horace Romano Harré
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Rom Harré in Tartu (2011)
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| Born | 18 December 1927 Manawatu, near Palmerston North, New Zealand
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| Died | 18 October 2019 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | University of New Zealand (University of Auckland) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Scientific realism |
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Philosophy of the social sciences Philosophy of physics |
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Ethogenics, positioning theory, referential realism |
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Horace Romano Harré ( 18 December 1927 – 18 October 2019), known widely as Rom Harré, was a New Zealand-born British philosopher and psychologist.
He taught mathematics at King's College, Auckland (1948–53) and the University of Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan (1953–4). From 2009 until 2011 he was Director Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics.
His written works were about philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, ontology, psychology, social psychology, sociology and philosophy.
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