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 .- Utilitarianism
- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing
- Mill's On Liberty: A Reader's Guide
- Death
- On Courage
Edited books
- Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, with Eve Garrard
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice, with Chris Scarre
Journal papers
- "Should we fear death?", European Journal of Philosophy, 5
- "Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1
- "Interpreting the categorical imperative", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6
- "On caring about one's posthumous reputation", American Philosophical Quarterly, 38
- "Corporal punishment", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 6
- "Archaeology and respect for the dead", Journal of Applied Philosophy, 20
- "Excusing the inexcusable? Moral responsibility and ideologically-motivated wrongdoing", Journal of Social Philosophy, 36
- "Corrective justice and reputation", Journal of Moral Philosophy, 3
