Geoffrey Scarre
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
Geoffrey Scarre's Published Works
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Published Works
- The ethics of archaeology : philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice (2006) (122)
- Can there be a good death? (2012) (42)
- Archaeology and Respect for the Dead (2003) (41)
- Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe (1987) (32)
- Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1988) (27)
- Donner and Riley on Qualitative Hedonism (1997) (26)
- Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology (2012) (25)
- Children, parents, and politics (1989) (23)
- In a Class of its Own (2002) (23)
- Epicurus as a Forerunner of Utilitarianism (1994) (22)
- The Ethics of Archaeology (2006) (22)
- Death: Dealing with the dead (2006) (22)
- Mill on induction and scientific method (1998) (21)
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Can archaeology harm the dead? (2006) (20)
- Children and Paternalism (1980) (19)
- The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging (2016) (19)
- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing (2004) (15)
- Happiness for the millian (1999) (14)
- KANT ON FREE AND DEPENDENT BEAUTY (1981) (11)
- Speaking of the dead (2012) (10)
- 'Sapient trouble-tombs'? : archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead. (2013) (9)
- Do not do unto others (2012) (9)
- Death and Loss (1996) (9)
- The Continence of Virtue (2013) (9)
- On Taking Back Forgiveness (2016) (7)
- Mill's 'On Liberty': A Reader's Guide (2007) (7)
- Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations (2018) (7)
- Excusing the inexcusable? Moral responsibility and ideologically motivated wrongdoing (2005) (7)
- Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust (2003) (6)
- Witchcraft and Magic (1987) (6)
- On caring about one's posthumous reputation. (2001) (6)
- Knowledge By Inference (1989) (6)
- The Repatriation of Human Remains (2009) (6)
- The Values of the Past (2012) (5)
- Understanding the Moral Phenomenology of the Third Reich (1998) (5)
- The ‘Constitutive Thought’ of Regret (2017) (5)
- What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility (2012) (4)
- The Right To Found A Family (1989) (4)
- Proof and implication in mill's philosophy of logic (1984) (4)
- How Memorials Speak to Us (2019) (4)
- What was Hume's worry about personal identity? (1983) (3)
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Introduction (2006) (3)
- Can evil attract (2000) (3)
- The Ageing of People and of Things (2016) (3)
- Utilitarianism and Self-Respect (1992) (3)
- Interpreting the categorical imperative (1998) (3)
- The 'Banality of Good'? (2009) (3)
- Political Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Grace (2011) (3)
- Forgiveness and Identification (2016) (3)
- Speaking of the dead: a postscript (2013) (3)
- ‘Sapient Trouble-Tombs’? (2013) (2)
- ‘The Compages, the Bonds and Rivets of the Race’: W. E. Gladstone on the Keeping of Books (2017) (2)
- Should We Fear Death (1997) (2)
- The Second Book of Job (1991) (2)
- Partitioning the Past (2012) (2)
- Privacy and the dead. (2012) (2)
- Evil Collectives: Evil Collectives (2012) (2)
- The vulnerability of the dead. (2013) (2)
- Corporal Punishment (1991) (1)
- Appropriating the Past: References (2012) (1)
- DEMONS, DEMONOLOGISTS AND DESCARTES (1990) (1)
- A Simple Argument for Faith Requiring Reasons (1981) (1)
- Is Act‐Utilitarianism the ‘Ethics of Fantasy’? (1998) (1)
- Hume's Philosophy of Religion: The Sixth James Montgomery Hester Seminar By ANTONY FLEW et al. Wake Forest University Press, 1986. 144 pp. $15.00 (1988) (1)
- Tillotson and Hume on Miracles (1992) (1)
- Utilitarianism and evil (2018) (0)
- Logic and the Objective World (1989) (0)
- Why Did Witch Trials Cease (1987) (0)
- On Taking Back Forgiveness (2015) (0)
- The Philosopher's Stone (1993) (0)
- In his recent work Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holo (1997) (0)
- Upton on Evil Pleasures (2001) (0)
- Eve Garrard and David McNaughton, Forgiveness (Durham: Acumen, 2010), xii + 132 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84465-226-6. £9.99 (pbk.). (2013) (0)
- Four Ancient Moralists (2020) (0)
- John Stuart Mill (2020) (0)
- Forgiveness and Identification (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2018) (0)
- Happiness and Other Ends (2020) (0)
- Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People? (2021) (0)
- Introduction: The Character of the Theory (2020) (0)
- 7. The Ethics of Digging (2014) (0)
- Mill’s Positive Theories of Inference and the Syllogism (1989) (0)
- Utilitarianism and Enlightenment (2020) (0)
- Mill’s Inconsistent Empiricism (1989) (0)
- Corrective Justice and Reputation (2006) (0)
- Death: Long lives, short lives (2006) (0)
- The Relativity of Knowledge (1989) (0)
- Witchcraft, Magic and the Law (1987) (0)
- Killing swiftly (2022) (0)
- European and American Philosophers (2017) (0)
- Death: The interests of the dead (2006) (0)
- Wrong that is Right? The Paradox of the ‘Felix Culpa’ (2009) (0)
- Death: Facing death (2006) (0)
- Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction By Robin Attfield Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xviii + 142pp. $11.95; £7.99. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198797166.001.0001 (2019) (0)
- The Dynamics of Witch Prosecution (1987) (0)
- | Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust | Taylor & Francis Group (2017) (0)
- FALLIBLE INFALLIBILITY? GLADSTONE'S ANTI-VATICAN PAMPHLETS IN THE LIGHT OF MILL'S ON LIBERTY (2016) (0)
- The Temple of Irony (1990) (0)
- Death: Existential perspectives (2006) (0)
- Some Later Developments (2020) (0)
- Naturalistic Explanation of Religious Belief (1981) (0)
- Death: The evil of death (2006) (0)
- Utilitarianism and Personality (2020) (0)
- On the alleged irrelevance of biology to ethics (1981) (0)
- Maximisation, Fairness and Respect for Persons (2020) (0)
- Virtuous Condonation (2014) (0)
- Problems About Proof and Implication (1989) (0)
- Lest we forget : how and why we should remember the Great War. (2014) (0)
- Ideal Utilitarianism: Moore and Rashdall (2002) (0)
- The World and Its Subject (1989) (0)
- Death: The nature of death (2006) (0)
- Moral Responsibility and the Holocaust (2017) (0)
- The Possibility of Inductive Resoning (1989) (0)
- Philosophy on a Spoon (1992) (0)
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