Geoffrey Scarre

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Geoffrey F. Scarre
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolUtilitarianism
Main interests
Ethics
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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.

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