Howard Richards

Howard Richards - Academic. abbreviated from Wikipedia

Howard Richards (born 1938) is a philosopher of Social Science who works with the concepts of basic cultural structure and constitutive rules. He holds a title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a Quaker School in Richmond, Indiana; now retired.

He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Juris Doctor from the Stanford Law School, an Advance Certificate in Education from Oxford University (the UK) and a Ph.D. in Educational Planning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. He now teaches at the University of Santiago, Chile, and has ongoing roles at the University of South Africa and the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business program. He is founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham.

Howard served as a volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta when they organized farm workers in California's Central Valley in the 1960's. In 2021 Howard was the recipient of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Lifetime Commitment Award from Oslo, Norway.

Other book titles by Howard Richards, in chronological order, are as follows:

2022. Economic Theory and Community Development: Why putting community first is essential to our survival

2015. Unbounded Organizing in Community

2012. The Nurturing of Time Future

2011. Gandhi and the Future of Economics

2008: The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a more Just World

2004. Understanding the Global Economy

1994. Letters from Quebec: A Philosophy for Peace and Justice, Volumes I and II or get 448 page book containing both vols.

1984. The Evaluation of Cultural Action - An Evaluative Study of the Parents and Children Program

1966. Life on a Small Planet: a Philosophy of Value

2018 Following Foucault: the tail of the fox