Professor Richard Norman

Richard Norman is Emeritus Professor of moral philosophy at the University of Kent. His research interests are in the areas of moral and political philosophy, including both theoretical and practical ethics. He is an active member of East Kent Humanists and a vice-president of the British Humanist Association, and was a founder-member of both the Humanitarian Policy Group and the Humanist Peace Forum.
Richard has been published several times. His book The Moral Philosophers, widely used in courses on moral philosophy, is a critical introduction to the history of ethics, leading to a defence of a form of ethical naturalism. In Ethics, Killing and War he argues for pacificism; a position which stops short of absolute pacifism, but recognises how difficult it is to provide any moral justification for war. His most recent book is On Humanism.