Lawrence C. Becker

Lawrence C. Becker (April 26, 1939 – November 22, 2018) was an American philosopher. He worked mainly in the areas of ethics and social, political, and legal philosophy. Becker wrote books and journal articles on justice, Stoicism, reciprocity, property rights, and metaethics. He was an associate editor of the journal Ethics from 1985 to 2000, and the editor, with the librarian Charlotte B. Becker, of two editions of the Encyclopedia of Ethics. He was a Fellow of Hollins University, where he taught philosophy from 1965 to 1989, and was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at the College of William & Mary from 1989 to 2001, subsequently retiring as professor emeritus. From 2000 to 2011 he was on the volunteer Board of Directors of Post-Polio Health International, and served as its president and chair from 2006 to 2009.