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.

Published works

Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, with Eve Garrard (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.

"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)

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