All Outputs (13)

Historical, Political, and Public Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914. (2024)
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Davies, D., McCullough, M., Sandy, M., Scarre, G., & Whitefield, R. (Eds.). (in press). Historical, Political, and Public Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914. London: Routledge

Intellectual and 'Disciplinary' Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914. (2024)
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Whitefield, R., & Scarre, G. (Eds.). (in press). Intellectual and 'Disciplinary' Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914. London: Routledge

Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory (2023)
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Scarre, G. (2023). Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34511-1

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural cir... Read More about Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging. (2016)
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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..

Appropriating the past (2013)
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Scarre, G., & Coningham, R. (Eds.). (2013). Appropriating the past. Cambridge University Press

On Courage (2010)
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Scarre, G. (2010). On Courage. Routledge

Mill's on Liberty: a reader's guide. (2007)
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Scarre, G. (2007). Mill's on Liberty: a reader's guide. Continuum

Death (2006)
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Scarre, G. (2006). Death. Acumen

A study of a range of metaphysical and ethical questions to do with death, dying and the treatment of the dead.

The ethics of archaeology: philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice (2006)
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Scarre, C., & Scarre, G. (Eds.). (2006). The ethics of archaeology: philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521840112%2C+10.2277/0521549426

The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists and philosophers explore the ethical issues archaeol... Read More about The ethics of archaeology: philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice.

After evil: responding to wrongdoing (2004)
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Scarre, G. (2004). After evil: responding to wrongdoing. Ashgate Publishing

An analytical study of forgiveness, mercy and punishment as responses to human moral evil.

Moral philosophy and the Holocaust. (2003)
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Scarre, G., & Garrard, E. (Eds.). (2003). Moral philosophy and the Holocaust. Ashgate Publishing

A collection of 15 new essays on moral-philosophical issues raised by the holocaust.

Utilitarianism (1996)
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Scarre, G. (1996). Utilitarianism. Routledge

Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utilit... Read More about Utilitarianism.

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations
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Holtorf, C., Pantazatos, A., & Scarre, G. (Eds.). Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations. Routledge