Geoffrey Scarre
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.
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 .
Published works
- Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe, 2001
- Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarianism
- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing
- Mill's On Liberty: A Reader's Guide
- Death
- On Courage
- ''Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory''
Edited books
- Children, Parents and Politics
- Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, with Eve Garrard
- The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice, with Chris Scarre
- Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology, with Robin Coningham
- The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging
- Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations, with Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos
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
- 'On caring about one's posthumous reputation', American Philosophical Quarterly, 38
- '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
- 'Can there be a good death?' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18
- 'The “constitutive thought” of regret,' International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 25
- ‘Forgiveness and ageing.’ In Christopher Wareham, The Ethics of Ageing.
- 'Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the ageing.’ In Irene Gammell and Jason Wang, Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic.
- 'Who is entitled to forgive? A Study of “Third-Party” and “Proxy” Forgiveness.' In Paula Satne and Krisanna Scheiter : Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment.
- 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