Geoffrey Scarre is a

moral philosopher Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics ...

and

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professor of philosophy at

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, having taught and published extensively in moral philosophy and

applied ethics Applied ethics is the practical aspect of morality, moral considerations. It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in private and public life, the professions, health, technology, law, and leadership. For ex ...

for more than three decades. His research in recent years has focused on

death Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose sh ...

and

ageing Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older until death. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi; whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biol ...

forgiveness Forgiveness, in a psychology, psychological sense, is the intentional and voluntary process by which one who may have felt initially wronged, victimized, harmed, or hurt goes through a process of changing feelings and attitude regarding a given ...

, cultural-heritage ethics, and the ethical judgment of the past. Until his retirement in 2021 he was a director of th
Durham University Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage

Published works

*''Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe'' (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987; 2nd ed. (with John Callow), 2001 *''Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill'' (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989) *''Utilitarianism'' (London:

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, 1996) *''After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing'' (Aldershot: Continuum, 2004) *''Mill's On Liberty: A Reader's Guide'' (New York: Continuum, 2007) *''Death'' (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007) *''On Courage'' (London: Routledge, 2010) *''Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory'' (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Edited books

*''Children, Parents and Politics'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) *''Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust'', with Eve Garrard (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) *''The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice'', with

Chris Scarre Christopher John Scarre is an academic and writer in the fields of archaeology, pre-history and ancient history. He is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham and was head of its archaeology department 2010–2013. Early life Scarre ...

(Cambridge:

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, 2006) *''Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology'', with Robin Coningham (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) *''The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging'' (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) *''Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations'', with Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos (London: Routledge, 2019)

Journal papers

*'Should we fear death?', ''

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'', 5 (1997) *'Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich', ''

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice ''Ethical Theory and Moral Practice'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of philosophy, established in 1998 and published five times a year by Springer Science+Business Media. It publishes articles in English, focusing on ethics ...

'', 1 (1998) *'On caring about one's posthumous reputation', ''

American Philosophical Quarterly The ''American Philosophical Quarterly'' (APQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering philosophy. It was established in 1964 by Nicholas Rescher and is published quarterly by University of Illinois Press under license with North American Phil ...

'', 38 (2001) *'Archaeology and respect for the dead', ''

Journal of Applied Philosophy The ''Journal of Applied Philosophy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for Applied Philosophy and co-edited by Avery Kolers (University of Louisville) and Tina Rulli (University of Californ ...

'', 20 (2003) *'Excusing the inexcusable? Moral responsibility and ideologically motivated wrongdoing', ''

Journal of Social Philosophy The ''Journal of Social Philosophy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social philosophy covering work of normative and practical significance concerning social and political life. It was established in 1970 by the North American Soc ...

'', 36 (2005) *'Can there be a good death?' ''Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice'', 18 (2012) *'The “constitutive thought” of regret,' ''International Journal of Philosophical Studies'', 25 (2017) *‘Forgiveness and ageing.’ In Christopher Wareham (ed.), ''The Ethics of Ageing''. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022) *'Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the ageing.’ In Irene Gammell and Jason Wang (eds.), ''Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic''. (London: Routledge, 2022) *'Who is entitled to forgive? A Study of “Third-Party” and “Proxy” Forgiveness.' In Paula Satne and Krisanna Scheiter (eds.): ''Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment''. (Cham: Springer, 2022) *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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarre, Geoffrey Academics of Durham University Year of birth missing (living people) Living people