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Paul McNamara is a Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire, where he has served on the faculty since 1990. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri Columbia, and his B.A. from the City University of New York. McNamara concentrates his research in ethical theory, deontic logic, and the philosophy of moral language. He is best known for his work in deontic logic, having authored or co-authored book-length overviews in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Handbook of the History of Logic, volume 7 (2006), and the Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, volume 1. His formal articles identify logical schemes that accommodate supererogation and other concepts central to common-sense morality, with some of this work and related contributions summarized in his entry 'Logics for Supererogation and Allied Normative Concepts' in the Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, volume 2 (2021).