Facts: - death place: ewelme , oxfordshire - influences: immanuel kant a.j. ayer j.l. austin ludwig wittgenstein - death date: 29 january 2002 - region: western philosophy - school tradition: analytic - birth date: 21 march 1919 - main interests: ethics - name: richard mervyn hare - image size: 175px - notable ideas: universal prescriptivism , two-level utilitarianism - era: 20th-century philosophy - birth place: backwell , somerset Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of r. m. hare .
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richard mervyn hare -lrb- ; 21 march 1919 -- 29 january 2002 -rrb- was an english moral philosopher who held the post of white 's professor of moral philosophy at the university of oxford from 1966 until 1983 .he subsequently taught for a number of years at the university of florida .his meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century .hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory .he believed that formal features of moral discourse could be used to show that correct moral reasoning will lead most agents to a form of preference utilitarianism .some of hare 's students , such as brian mcguinness and bernard williams , went on to become well-known philosophers .peter singer , known for his involvement with the animal liberation movement , was also a student of hare 's , and has explicitly adopted some elements of hare 's thought , though not his doctrine of universal prescriptivism .