Richardson's main work has centred on
practical reasoning. His first book, Practical Reasoning about Final Ends,[6] focused on individual reasoning, whilst his second book, Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy,[7] which won the
Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award in Public Administration,[8] and the David Easton Award in the Foundations of Political Theory,[9] dealt with collective reasoning.
In addition to working on practical reasoning and moral and political philosophy, Richardson has written on
bioethics. He has twice been a visiting scholar at the Department of Bioethics at the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health.
From 2008 to 2018, he was the Editor of the academic journal Ethics.[10] From 2010 to 2013, through his work as a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), he has acted as an advisor to the Director General of
UNESCO on ethical issues relating to science and technology.[3][4]
Richardson, Henry S (2012). Moral entanglements: the ancillary-care obligations of medical researchers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780195388930.
Richardson, Henry S (2018). Articulating the moral community: toward a constructive ethical pragmatism. New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780190247744.
Journal articles
Richardson, Henry S (Autumn 1990). "Specifying Norms as a way to resolve concrete ethical problems". Philosophy & Public Affairs. 19 (4): 279–310.
JSTOR2265316.
Richardson, Henry S (1998). "Truth and ends in Dewey". Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 28 (Supplement 1): 109–147.
doi:
10.1080/00455091.1998.10717497.
Richardson, Henry S (Summer 1999). "Institutionally divided moral responsibility". Social Philosophy and Policy. 16 (2): 218–249.
doi:
10.1017/S0265052500002454.
S2CID144573121.
Richardson, Henry S (June 2006). "Republicanism and democratic injustice". Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. 5 (2): 175–200.
doi:
10.1177/1470594X06064221.
S2CID154556279.
Richardson, Henry S (December 2006). "Disabilities, capabilities, and Rawlsian social contract theory". The Journal of Ethics. 10 (4): 419–462.
doi:
10.1007/s10892-006-9000-5.
S2CID146446421.
^International Panel on Social Progress (2018). Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN9781108399579.