Professor
Roger Crisp
Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
Professor of Moral Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy
Academic background
BPhil. 1983; MA (Literae Humaniores) 1985; DPhil. 1988
Biography
Prof. Roger Crisp was in the first male cohort at St Anne’s in 1979, admitted to read Lit. Hum. After a BPhil. and DPhil. in Philosophy, he was appointed to a College Fellowship in 1991. He was Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston University in 2010-11. Roger is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University. He chairs the management committee of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and has close links with colleagues in Japan.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Moral and Political Philosophy. Ancient Philosophy. Philosophy of Religion.
Graduate: Moral Philosophy. (BPhil., DPhil.)
Course Highlights
St Anne’s Classical Society
St Anne’s has an Ethics Scholarship for graduates
The Philosophy Faculty and its library are just over the road
Research interests
Moral Philosophy, including History of Philosophy, Metaethics, Normative Ethics, and Practical Ethics.
Recent Publications
Mill on Utilitarianism (1997). Reasons and the Good (2006). The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics (2015). Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham (2019).
Video
This is Professor Crisp defending Aristotle in a balloon debate at Blackwell’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3znAVrw_g
And here’s a podcast on ethics and the virtues:
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-virtue-ethics