Charles Larmore


Charles Larmore 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.

Education and career

Larmore received his A.B. at Harvard and his Ph.D. at Yale. 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 political science.

Philosophical work

He has been a defender of political liberalism along with John Rawls, as well as a contributor to moral philosophy and to the history of philosophy from the 16th to the 20th centuries. His most recent work focuses on the nature of reason and reasons.

Prizes, awards and membership in societies