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Dr. Duncan J. Richter, Ph.D.

Dr. Duncan J. Richter, Ph.D.

Professor, Holder of Charles Luck III 鈥55 Institute Professorship

Office: 468 Scott Shipp Hall

Phone: 540-464-7735

Email: richterdj@vmi.edu

Fields: Ethics, the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Virginia

Phil. in Philosophy, University of Wales

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford University

Dr. Richter was born in Chester, England and moved to the United States to study for his PhD. He has taught at VMI since 1995, including courses on Ethics, Comparative Religion, and Aesthetics. He is married with two children.

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Wittgenstein Versus Anscombe on How to Live: Linked Philosophical Lives, Bloomsbury, 2025
  • Wittgenstein鈥檚听Tractatus:听A Student鈥檚 Edition, Bloomsbury, 2021
  • Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein鈥檚 Philosophy, second edition, Bloomsbury, 2014
  • Anscombe鈥檚 Moral Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2011.听
  • , Oxford University Press, 2007
  • ,鈥疊loomsbury, 2004
  • , Springer, 2000听

Selected Presentations

  • 鈥淎nscombe鈥檚 Sexual Ethics,鈥 at the von Wright-Wittgenstein Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland, March 14, 2019
  • 鈥淲ittgenstein and the Value of Clarity,鈥 at the Eighth British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference: Wittgenstein, Ethics and Religion, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, September 7, 2016
  • 鈥淭he Meaning of Human Dignity,鈥 the plenary address at the 2015 Anscombe Forum, Neumann University, Pennsylvania, March 13, 2015
  • 鈥淭he Possibility of a Social Science鈥 public lecture given at the University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico, August 11, 2014听
  • 鈥淪ketches of Blurred Landscapes: Wittgenstein and Ethics鈥 at the North American Wittgenstein Society at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego, California, April 17, 2014听
  • 鈥淭he Conception of the Architectonic Good in Anscombe鈥檚 Moral Philosophy,鈥 at a conference on The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe at St Hugh鈥檚 College, Oxford University, September 27, 2013
  • 鈥淎 Defensible Doctrine of Double Effect,鈥澨齥eynote address at the 70th annual meeting of the Virginia Philosophical Association, Lynchburg College, October 23听2009

Honors

  • VMI Jackson-Hope Prize for Excellence in Published Scholarly Work 2021
  • State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award 2008
  • VMI Distinguished Teaching Award 2007
  • Winner of the VMI Matthew Fontaine Maury Research Award 2005
  • VMI Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award 1998