Professor Roger Crisp

Roger Crisp studied Literae Humaniores at Oxford, and then took the B.Phil. and D.Phil. under the supervision of J.L. Ackrill, Jonathan Glover, James Griffin, Michael Lockwood, Derek Parfit, Joseph Raz, Alan Ryan, and David Wiggins. As well as being Director of the Uehiro Oxford Institute, he is Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Uehiro Fellow in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He held the Findlay Visiting Professorship at Boston University in 2010-11. He served as editor of Utilitas and for several years was an associate editor of Ethics. He was a Delegate of Oxford University Press for over a decade. In 2017-18, he was President of the Mind Association, and has given the Lindley Lecture (University of Kansas, 2018), the Parcells Lecture (University of Connecticut, 2022), and the Cottingham Lecture (University of Reading, 2024). His main research interest is ethics, especially normative ethics, the history of ethics, and practical ethics. He continues to work in other areas of philosophy, including ancient philosophy and political philosophy. He has published monographs on J.S. Mill (1997), Henry Sidgwick (2015), and the British moralists (2019), as well as Reasons and the Good (2006), a defence of various Sidgwickian positions in normative ethics. He has edited a number of collections, including the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, and has translated Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for Cambridge University Press.

Audio Interview: http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/Interviews/RCrisp.mp3

Online/print Interview: Crisp, R., & Mullins, B. (2023). Ethics from the Outside Looking In: An Interview with Roger Crisp. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 16(2), aa–aa.

Publications: https://philpapers.org/s/roger%20crisp