Roger Crisp

Roger Crisp is a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and the Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University and chairs the management committee of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His main research interests are ethics, practical ethics, metaethics, normative ethical theory, and ancient philosophy and political philosophy. Crisp is the author of four books, including “Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham,” “Reasons on the Good,” and “Mill on Utilitarianism.” He is also the editor of the “Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics” and has translated Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”. Crisp was awarded a Thank-Offering-to-Britain Fellowship by the British Academy in 2015 and previously held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and the Findlay Visiting Professorship at Boston University. He holds a B.A., B.Phil., and D.Phil. from St. Anne’s College.