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Forgiveness and Ageing (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Forgiveness and Ageing. In C. Wareham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing (146-160). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861168.012

Ought ageing people sometimes to be prepared to forgive old offences that it would not have been (so) appropriate for them to have forgiven at an earlier date? The question is tackled in the framework of a narrative conception of human life that focu... Read More about Forgiveness and Ageing.

Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness. In P. Satne, & K. M. Scheiter (Eds.), Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment (207-222). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1_11

Is it ever admissible for a ‘third party’ to grant forgiveness to an offender for an injury committed against another person? A distinction should be drawn between cases in which someone offers her own forgiveness to an offender for an injury inflict... Read More about Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness.

Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly. In I. Gammel, & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative Resilience and COVID-19 (61-69). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213536-8

This essay discusses the increase in the sense of vulnerability that many older people felt with the onset of COVID-19, which reverses the sense of security in old age which has been developing over recent decades. Pascal Bruckner’s book A Brief Eter... Read More about Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly.

Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People? (2021)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2021). Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?. In S. M. Gardiner (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.34

This chapter aims, first, to investigate the metaphysical difficulties concerning the status of the dead and the basis of the obligations that the living owe to them and, second, to determine in more detail what rights the dead may have and what obli... Read More about Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?.

Utilitarianism and Evil (2018)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2018). Utilitarianism and Evil. In D. Hedley, C. Meister, & C. Taliaferro (Eds.), The history of evil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : 1700-1900 CE (118-135). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351138406-9

“Utilitarianism” is the name of a family of ethical theories that take as the yardstick of moral appraisal the propensity of acts to increase or decrease human well-being (or, more generally, the well-being of all sentient creatures). Emerging to pro... Read More about Utilitarianism and Evil.

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?.

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

'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 Press

This 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.

Evil. (2010)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2010). Evil. In J. Skorupski (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics (584-595). Routledge

The repatriation of human remains (2009)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2009). The repatriation of human remains. In J. Young, & C. Brunk (Eds.), The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (72-92). Blackwell

Dying and philosophy. (2009)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2009). Dying and philosophy. In A. Kellehear (Ed.), The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation (147-162). Cambridge University Press

How memorials speak to us
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. How memorials speak to us. In J. Bicknell, J. Judkins, & C. Korsmeyer (Eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials (21-33). Routledge