Becker is a Fellow of
Hollins University, where he taught philosophy from 1965–1989, and is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus from the
College of William & Mary, where he was the
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy from 1989–2001.
From 2000–2011 he was on the volunteer Board of Directors of
Post-Polio Health International, and served as its President and Chair from 2006–2009.
Books authored
Habilitation, Health, and Agency: a Framework for Basic Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. E-book, 2013.
A New Stoicism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Paperback issued by Princeton University Press, 1999.
E-book, 2010.
Revised Edition, 2017.
Reciprocity. London and New York: Routledge, 1986. Pbk issued by the University of Chicago Press, 1990. Reissued by Routledge in hbk and e-book, 2014.
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations. London and New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. Pbk, 1980. Reissued by Routledge in hbk and e-book, 2014.
On Justifying Moral Judgments. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Reissued by Routledge in hbk and e-book, 2014.
Books edited with Charlotte B. Becker
Encyclopedia of Ethics. Second edition in three volumes. New York: Routledge, 2001. (First Edition in 2 volumes: New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.)
A History of Western Ethics. Second Edition, revised with expanded index and glossary. New York: Routledge, 2003. (First Edition, New York: Garland Publishing, 1992).
Book edited with Kenneth Kipnis
Property: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
General editor for book series
Ethical Investigations: A Routledge Series of Article Collections. New York: Routledge, 2003. Two collections (6 vols. each) of classic journal articles. Carl Wellman, ed., Rights and Duties; Peter Vallentyne, ed., Equality and Justice.