What is Horace Romano Harré?
{{Infobox philosopher | name = Horace Romano Harré | image = RomHarre.jpg | caption = Rom Harré in Tartu (2011) | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1927|12|18}} | birth_place = Manawatu, near Palmerston North, [[New Zealand]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2019|10|18|1927|12|18}} | death_place = | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | region = [[Western philosophy]] | school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]<br>[[Scientific realism]] | alma_mater = [[University of New Zealand]] ([[University of Auckland]]) | main_interests = [[Philosophy of the social sciences]]<br>[[Philosophy of physics]] | influences = [[J. L. Austin]] | influenced = [[Roy Bhaskar]], [[Patrick Baert]], [[Jonathan Smith (psychologist)|Jonathan Smith]], [[Luk Van Langenhove]] | notable_ideas = [[Ethogenics]], [[positioning theory]], [[Entity realism|referential realism]]<ref>Nola, R. (1988) ''Relativism and Realism in Science'', Springer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IfQDs1JxW20C&pg=PA32 p. 32 n. 16], quotation: {{quotation|Entity realism is strongly supported in Harré (1986) under the name 'referential realism'}}</ref> }} '''Horace Romano Harré''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|æ|r|eɪ}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWONV9W5UI|title=Rom Harre on What is Social Science_Social Science Bites|last=SAGE|date=8 May 2013|access-date=14 October 2017|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> 18 December 1927 – 18 October 2019),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailynous.com/2019/10/18/rom-harre-1927-2019/|title=Rom Harré (1927-2019)|first=Justin|last=Weinberg|date=October 18, 2019|access-date=October 18, 2019|website=Dailynous.com|publisher=[[Daily Nous]]}}</ref> known widely as '''Rom Harré''', was a New Zealand-born British philosopher and [[psychologist]]. He taught mathematics at [[King's College, Auckland]] (1948–53) and the [[University of Punjab]] in Lahore, [[Pakistan]] (1953–4). From 2009 until 2011 he was Director [[CPNSS|Centre for Phil