Geoffrey Scarre is a moral philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Durham.
Geoffrey F. Scarre | |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Utilitarianism |
Main interests | Ethics |
| Website | [1] |
His research focuses on a cluster of topics in applied ethics and moral philosophy broadly construed, including evil, the Holocaust, death, forgiveness, courage, the ethics of archaeology, and utilitarianism, with a special interest in the philosophy of John Stuart Mill.
He is the director of the Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage.
Published works edit
- Utilitarianism (London: Routledge, 1996)
- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
- Mill's On Liberty: A Reader's Guide (New York: Continuum, 2007)
- Death (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007)
- On Courage (London: Routledge, 2010)
Edited books edit
- Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, with Eve Garrard (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice, with Chris Scarre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- Scarre, Geoffrey; Coningham, Robin, eds. (2013). Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521196062.
Journal papers edit
- "Should we fear death?", European Journal of Philosophy, 5 (1997)
- "Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1 (1998)
- "Interpreting the categorical imperative", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6 (1998)
- "On caring about one's posthumous reputation", American Philosophical Quarterly, 38 (2001)
- "Corporal punishment", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 6 (2003)
- "Archaeology and respect for the dead", Journal of Applied Philosophy, 20 (2003)
- "Excusing the inexcusable? Moral responsibility and ideologically-motivated wrongdoing", Journal of Social Philosophy, 36 (2005)
- "Corrective justice and reputation", Journal of Moral Philosophy, 3 (2006)