Appropriating the past
(2013)
Book
Scarre, G., & Coningham, R. (Eds.). (2013). Appropriating the past. Cambridge University Press
All Outputs (6)
The vulnerability of the dead (2013)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2013). The vulnerability of the dead. In J. S. Taylor (Ed.), The metaphysics and ethics of death : new essays (171-187). Oxford University Press
Speaking of the dead: a postscript (2013)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2013). Speaking of the dead: a postscript. Mortality, 18(3), 313-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2013.819323
'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead (2013)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2013). 'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead. In S. Tarlow, & L. Nillson Stutz (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial (665-676). Oxford University PressThis chapter argues that moral questions raised by archaeological research on human remains are helpfully studied in the context of a broader range of questions about the ethically proper relations between the living and the dead. How, for instance,... Read More about 'Sapient trouble-tombs'?: Archaeologists' moral obligations to the dead.
Privacy and the Dead (2013)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2013). Privacy and the Dead. Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 19(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5840/pcw201219112The privacy of the dead might be thought to be violated by, for instance, the disinterment for research purposes of human physical remains or the posthumous revelation of embarrassing facts about people's private lives. But are there any moral rights... Read More about Privacy and the Dead.
The continence of virtue (2013)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2013). The continence of virtue. Philosophical Investigations, 36(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12003Many recent writers in the virtue ethics tradition have followed Aristotle in arguing for a distinction between virtue and continence, where the latter is conceived as an inferior moral condition. In this paper I contend that rather than seeking to i... Read More about The continence of virtue.