Howard Richards (academic)

Howard Curtis Richards
Born (1938-06-10) June 10, 1938 (age 85)
DiedApril 7th, 2024
Limache, Chile
SpouseCaroline Higgins
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisDistributive Justice (1974)
Influences
Academic work
Notable works
  • Letters from Quebec
  • Understanding the Global Economy
  • Dilemmas of Social Democracies
  • The Evaluation of Cultural Action
  • Gandhi and the Future of Economics
  • Re-thinking the Economy
  • Unbounded Organization

Howard Richards (born June 10, 1938) was a philosopher of Social Science who worked with the concepts of basic cultural structures[nb 1] and constitutive rules.[nb 2] He held the title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, the United States, the Quaker School where he taught for thirty years. He retired from Earlham College, together with his wife Caroline Higgins in 2007, and became a Research Professor of Philosophy. He held a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara,[1] a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Stanford Law School, an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) from Oxford University (the UK) and a Ph.D. in Educational Planning [2] from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. He taught at the University of Santiago, Chile,[3] and had ongoing roles at the University of South Africa (UNISA) [4] and the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business program. He is founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program[nb 3] and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham.[5]


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  1. ^ Richards 1974 (Santa Barbara Ph.D. Dissertation).
  2. ^ With the first field in Curriculum Planning and a second field in Applied Psychology and Moral Education with a doctoral thesis on the Chilean PPH (Parents and Children) Project, published as "The Evaluation of Cultural Action" (Richards 1984).
  3. ^ On the doctoral program in Management Science and the undergraduate program in Ingenieria Comercial (Economics).
  4. ^ Development Education p. 3; School of Human Sciences.
  5. ^ Howard Richards profile.

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