Anthony Skelton
Professor
History of Ethics, Normative Ethics, Practical Ethics
BA Manitoba; MA Dalhousie;
Office: Stevenson Hall 4145
E-mail: askelto4@uwo.ca
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My primary research interests are in moral philosophy and its history. I have written on Sidgwick and related figures, the nature of well-being, achievement, adolescent consent and capacity, and, more recently, the ethics of mandating vaccination and of vaccinating children against COVID-19.
I am happy to supervise dissertations in the history of ethics from Kant onwards, in contemporary normative ethics, including value theory, and in meta-ethics, especially in moral epistemology.
Recent Highlights
- I was named in 2023.
- I have been elected to the Editorial Committee of , a leading journal of ethics.
- A group of students who took my ArtHum 2200 course on well-being won the Sustainable Development Goals award for their project on Well-Being and Arts Prescription at in London, ON.
Recent Publications
Books
Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being, edited with Lisa Forsberg and Isra Black (Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Sidgwick’s Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
, Second Edition, edited with Charles Weijer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Articles
“” (with Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg), Law Quarterly Review 139 (4) (2023): 654–680.
“”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (2010; revised 2012 and 2022). (~18,250 words)
“” (with Lisa Forsberg and Isra Black), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 20 (3) (2021), 1–28.
Chapters
“Classical Utilitarianism and Feminism” (with Lisa Forsberg), Feminist Ethics: An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Current Issues, eds. Celia Edell and Charlotte Sabourin (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
”, The Moral Philosophy of W. D. Ross, eds. Robert Audi and David Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
“”, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility, ed. Maximillian Kiener (New York: Routledge, 2023), 82–94.
Popular Pieces
“”, The Conversation, 1 November 2021.
“” (with Lisa Forsberg and Isra Black), Ethics in the News, 28 August 2021.
“” (with Lisa Forsberg), The Conversation, 13 May 2021. *Winner of the .*
