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Roger Crisp

Disciplines:
ethics
ancient philosophy

Summary

British moral philosopher who has defended hedonism, written influential studies of Mill, and contributed to virtue ethics and the history of moral philosophy.

Core Contribution

Defended prudential hedonism — well-being consists in pleasant experience — against preference satisfaction and objective list theories. Wrote the standard philosophical commentary on Mill's Utilitarianism. Contributed to debates on beneficence and demandingness.

Notable Works & Achievements

Mill on Utilitarianism

Reasons and the Good

The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics

Historical Influences

John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Ethics

Contemporaries & Peers

Derek Parfit Samuel Scheffler

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Welfare Hedonism

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