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The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging. (2016)
Book
Scarre, G. (2016). The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39356-2

This comprehensive handbook presents the major philosophical perspectives on the nature, prospects, problems and social context of age and aging in an era of dramatically increasing life-expectancy. Drawing on the latest research in gerontology, medi... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging..

The aging of people and of things. (2016)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2016). The aging of people and of things. In G. Scarre (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging (87-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39356-2_6

This chapter explores some of the similarities and differences between the ageing of people and of other things, in particular the artefacts that we create to serve our ends. When we describe people as ‘ageing’, we usually mean that they have arrived... Read More about The aging of people and of things..

Is it possible to be better off dead? (2016)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2017). Is it possible to be better off dead?. In J. K. Davis (Ed.), Ethics at the end of life (11-28). Routledge

Although the coherence of supposing that a person could ever be better off dead has sometimes been questioned on metaphysical grounds, I argue in favour of the common intuition that in some circumstances death could be better for a person than contin... Read More about Is it possible to be better off dead?.

Fallible infallibility? Gladstone's anti-Vatican pamphlets in the light of Mill's On Liberty (2016)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2016). Fallible infallibility? Gladstone's anti-Vatican pamphlets in the light of Mill's On Liberty. Victorian Literature and Culture, 44(02), 223-237. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150315000595

When W. E. Gladstone published in November 1874 his spirited pamphlet The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation, he seems to have taken many people by surprise. In its issue of the 21st of that month, Punch p... Read More about Fallible infallibility? Gladstone's anti-Vatican pamphlets in the light of Mill's On Liberty.

Forgiveness and Identification (2016)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2016). Forgiveness and Identification. Philosophia, 44(4), 1021-1028. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9688-9

Philosophical discussion of forgiveness has mainly focused on cases in which victims and offenders are known to each other. But it commonly happens that a victim brings an offender under a definite description (e.g. ‘the boy who kicked his football t... Read More about Forgiveness and Identification.