Roger Crisp

Originally from Brentwood, Essex, Crisp began his higher education at St. Anne's College, Oxford in 1979, where he read Literae Humaniores. He was amongst the first male cohort to study at this previously all-female college. He was taught by, amongst others, Margaret Howatson, Gabriele Taylor, Iris Murdoch, and Peter Derow. In 1983 he commenced the B.Phil., and from 1985 until 1988 he worked on his D.Phil., writing his thesis on utilitarianism.

In 1986 Crisp began his first academic post, as a junior lecturer in philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford; he returned to St Anne's for two years beginning in 1987 as a lecturer in philosophy, before taking up a lecturing post at Hertford College in 1988–1989. In 1989–1991 he moved to University College, as a British Academy Research Fellow and Honorary Junior Research Fellow. In 1991 he returned to St Anne's to take up a permanent post as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, succeeding Gabriele Taylor. For the first time in his career, Crisp temporarily left Oxford and spent the academic year 2010–2011 at Boston University to explore his interest in the moral philosophy of Henry Sidgwick.[http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=1283&id=56485 Boston University, news.]

Arguably Crisp's most significant work to date is Reasons and the Good (2006), in which he advances some novel approaches to the oldest questions in ethics. The central thesis of this work is that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons might underlie our actions; Crisp argues that the best exposition of such reasons will not employ moral concepts.{{cite book |last=Crisp |first=Roger |title=Reasons and the Good |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2006 |isbn=9780199290338 }}

Other major works include a translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,{{cite book |last=Crisp |first=Roger |title=Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy |location=Cambridge |year=2000 |isbn=9780521635462 }} and the Routledge Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism.{{cite book |last=Crisp |first=Roger |title=Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780415109789 }} He was editor of the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (2013).{{cite book |editor-first=Roger |editor-last=Crisp |title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-19-175035-9 }}

Crisp is married with two daughters.{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}}

This is a selection of Crisp's recent publications. For an exhaustive list download the PDF file on his page on the [https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/roger-crisp Oxford University Philosophy Faculty website].

• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = Routledge philosophy guidebook to Mill on utilitarianism | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780415109789 }}
• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = Reasons and the good | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780199290338 }}
• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = The cosmos of duty: Henry Sidgwick's Methods of ethics | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, Oxfordshire | year = 2018 | isbn = 9780198716358 }}
• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = Sacrifice regained: morality and self-interest in British moral philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, Oxfordshire | year = 2019 | isbn = 9780198840473 }}

• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger | last2 = Warner | first2 = Martin | title = Terrorism, protest, and power | publisher = Edward Elgar Gower Pub | location = Aldershot, Hants, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781852782023 }}
• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = How should one live?: essays on the virtues | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780198752349 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger | last2 = Slote | first2 = Michael Slote | author-link2 = Michael Slote | title = Virtue ethics | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780198751885 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger | last2 = Cowton | first2 = Christopher | title = Business ethics: perspectives on the practice of theory | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780198290315 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger | last2 = Hooker | first2 = Brad | author-link2 = Brad Hooker | title = Well-being and morality: essays in honour of James Griffin | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780198235842 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger | title = Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics | publisher = Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy | location = Cambridge, U.K. New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780521635462 }}
• {{cite book | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = The Oxford handbook of the history of ethics | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, Oxfordshire | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780199545971 }}

• {{Citation | last = Crisp | first = Roger | contribution = Hume on virtue, utility, and morality | editor-last = Gardiner | editor-first = Stephen M. | title = Virtue ethics, old and new | pages = 159–178 | publisher = Cornell University Press | location = Ithaca, New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780801489686 }}
• {{Citation | last = Crisp | first = Roger | contribution = Aristotle on greatness of soul | editor-last = Kraut | editor-first = Richard | title = The Blackwell guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics | pages = 159–178 | publisher = Blackwell Publishing | location = Malden, Massachusetts Oxford | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781405120210 }}
• {{Citation | last = Crisp | first = Roger | contribution = Iris Murdoch on nobility and moral value | editor-last = Broackes | editor-first = Justin | title = Iris Murdoch, philosopher | pages = 275–291 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, Oxfordshire | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780198701200 }}

• {{Cite journal | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = Aristotle's ethics: how being good can make you happy | journal = The Richmond Journal of Philosophy | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 11–16 | publisher = Philosophy Department, Richmond upon Thames College | location = Twickenham, United Kingdom | date = Summer 2002 | url = http://www.richmond-philosophy.net/rjp/back_issues/issue_1.pdf }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = How to allocate health care resources: QALYs or the virtues? | journal = Journal of Death and Life Studies | volume = 6 | pages = 147–156 | publisher = Clinical Ethics Project, Death & Life Studies and Practical Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology / Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo | date = October 2004 | url = http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dls/cleth/MedSys/conf/41015CrispR.pdf }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Crisp | first = Roger | title = Value, reasons and the structure of justification: how to avoid passing the buck | journal = Analysis | volume = 65 | issue = 285 | pages = 80–85 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-8284.2005.00528.x | date = January 2005 }}

• {{cite AV media | people = Roger Crisp | date = 16 July 2007 | series= Philosophy bites | title = Roger Crisp on utilitarianism | medium = Podcast | url = http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/roger_crisp_on_utilitarianism | publisher = Philosophy bites}}
• {{cite AV media | people = Roger Crisp | date = 12 October 2008 | series= Philosophy bites | title = Roger Crisp on virtue | medium = Podcast | url = http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/roger_crisp_on_virtue | publisher = Philosophy bites}}

• {{cite book | last1 = Crisp | first1 = Roger (editor) | last2 = Schultz | first2 = Bart (editor) | last3 = Bucolo | first3 = Placido (editor and translator) | last4 = Mangion | first4 = Francesca (translator) | title = Proceedings of the world congress on Henry Sidgwick - happiness and religion | Atti del congresso internazionale su Henry Sidgwick - felicità e religione - parallel translation | publisher = Universita degli Studi di Catania | location = Catania, Italy | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780199290338 | oclc = 229411995 }}

• [http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/people/profile/details/roger-crisp.html Roger Crisp's page on the St. Anne's College website]
• [http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/roger_crisp Roger Crisp's page on the Oxford University Philosophy Faculty website]
• [http://philosophybites.com/2007/07/roger-crisp-on-.html "Philosophy bites": a website where contemporary philosophers deliver podcasts on philosophical topics]

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