Geoffrey Scarre

Geoffrey Scarre is a moral philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Durham.

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[]

• 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[]

• Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, with (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[]

• "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)

External links[]

• Durham University staff profile
• Personal homepage