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Initially published in 2015, Roger Crisp’s monograph on Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics has recently been reissued in a paperback format (2017). It follows Kataryna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer’s own book on Sidgwick, The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics, also published by Oxford University Press (2014 hardback, 2016 paperback).
My main interests at the moment are in the history of philosophy. I’ve just finished a book on a philosopher called Henry Sidgwick, who died in 1900. People say he’s the most famous philosopher nobody’s ever heard of. He wrote a great book called The Methods of Ethics, which originally came out in 1874.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Roger Crisp, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp.xlii + 213. - Volume 14 Issue 3
This paper is a plea for hedonism to be taken more seriously. It begins by charting hedonism's decline, and suggests that this is a result of two major objections: the claim that hedonism is the ‘philosophy of swine’, reducing all value to a single common denominator, and Nozick's ‘experience machine’ objection.
REASONS, PRACTICAL REASON, AND PRACTICAL REASONING. The concepts of reasons as supporting elements, of practical reason as a capacity, and of practical reasoning as a process are central in the theory of action. This paper provides a brief account of each. Several kinds of reason for action are distinguished.
Abstract. It is argued that persuasive advertising overrides the autonomy of consumers, in that it manipulates them without their knowledge and for no good reason. Such advertising causes desires in such a way that a necessary condition of autonomy — the possibility of decision — is removed. Four notions central to autonomous action are ...
UK roger.crisp@st-annes.ox.ac.uk Abstract This paper suggests that we understand Aristotle’s notion of nobility (τὸ καλόν) as what is morally praiseworthy, arguing that nobility is not to be understood impartially, that Aristotle is an egoist at the level of justification (though not at the level of motivation), and that he uses the idea of the noble as a bridge between self-interest ...
