Geoffrey Scarre is a moral philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at Durham University, having taught and published extensively in moral philosophy and applied ethics for more than three decades.
Geoffrey F. Scarre | |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Utilitarianism |
Main interests | Ethics |
Website | [1] |
His research in recent years has focused on death and ageing, forgiveness, cultural-heritage ethics, and the ethical judgment of the past.
Until his retirement in 2021 he was a director of the Durham University Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage.
Published works edit
- Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987; 2nd ed. (with John Callow), 2001
- Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989)
- Utilitarianism (London: Routledge, 1996)
- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing (Aldershot: Continuum, 2004)
- Mill's On Liberty: A Reader's Guide (New York: Continuum, 2007)
- Death (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007)
- On Courage (London: Routledge, 2010)
- Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Edited books edit
- Children, Parents and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- 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)
- Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology, with Robin Coningham (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations, with Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos (London: Routledge, 2019)
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)
- 'On caring about one's posthumous reputation', American Philosophical Quarterly, 38 (2001)
- '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)
- 'Can there be a good death?' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18 (2012)
- 'The “constitutive thought” of regret,' International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 25 (2017)
- ‘Forgiveness and ageing.’ In Christopher Wareham (ed.), The Ethics of Ageing. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022)
- 'Killing swiftly: the effects of Covid-19 on the experience of the ageing.’ In Irene Gammell and Jason Wang (eds.), Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic. (London: Routledge, 2022)
- 'Who is entitled to forgive? A Study of “Third-Party” and “Proxy” Forgiveness.' In Paula Satne and Krisanna Scheiter (eds.): Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment. (Cham: Springer, 2022)
- Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique.’ Mortality, 2024
- ‘How to be a “good” collector: some ethical reflections on the private collecting of cultural heritage.’ International Journal of Cultural Property, 2024