Bob Brecher (born 1949) is a British philosopher and Professor of

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

University of Brighton The University of Brighton is a public university based in Brighton on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion. It achieved university status in 1992. T ...

. He is known for his expertise on

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

and

political philosophy Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different ...

. Brecher is co-director of Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and a former president of Association for Social and Political Philosophy (2000-2003). He founded ''

Res Publica ', also spelled ''rēs pūblica'' to indicate vowel length, is a Latin phrase, loosely meaning "public affair". It is the root of the ''republic'', and '' commonwealth'' has traditionally been used as a synonym for it; however, translations var ...

'' in 1995.

Books

* ''Anselm's Argument: the Logic of Divine Existence'' (Gower, 1985) * '' Torture and the Ticking Bomb'' (Blackwell, 2007) * ''Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality'' (Routledge, 1997)

Edited

* ''Liberalism and the New Europe'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebury, 1993) * ''The University in a Liberal State'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebury, 1996) * ''Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order'', with Jo Halliday and Klára Kolinská (Avebury, 1998) * ''The New Order of War'' (Rodopi, 2010) * ''Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror'', with Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter (Routledge, 2010)

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Bob Brecher
21st-century British philosophers British philosophy academics Living people 1949 births British political philosophers Academics of the University of Brighton Alumni of the University of Kent Academic staff of the University of Khartoum {{UK-philosopher-stub