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Anthony Skelton
BA Manitoba; MA Dalhousie; PhD Toronto

  • Associate Professor
  • Ethics, History of Ethics, Practical Ethics
  • Member, Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 87953
Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 4126
E-mail: askelto4@uwo.ca
Website: Personal

2012-2013 Teaching

Professor Skelton will be on leave July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Selected Publications

  • "Ideal Utilitarianism”, Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, ed., James Crimmins and Doug Long (Bristol: Thoemmes/Continuum, forthcoming) (Solicited)
  • “Rashdall, Hastings”, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed., Hugh LaFollette (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). (Solicited and Refereed)
  • Review of Fred Feldman, What is this Thing Called Happiness?, Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming). (Solicited)
  • "Ideal Utilitarianism: Rashdall and Moore”, Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, ed., Thomas Hurka (Oxford:University Press, 2011), 45-65. (Refereed)
  • “Utilitarian Practical Ethics: Sidgwick and Singer”, Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Henry Sidgwick: Ethics, Psychics, Politics, eds., P.  Bucolo, R. Crisp and B. Schultz (Catania: Universita degli Studi di Catania 2011), 588-628. (Solicited)
  • “Henry Sidgwick’s Moral Epistemology”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2010), 491-519. (Refereed)
  • “W. D. Ross”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward N.  Zalta (2010) (Solicited and Refereed)
  • “On Sidgwick’s Demise: A Reply to Professor Deigh”, Utilitas 22 (2010), 70-77. (Refereed)
  • Review of Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, The Globe and Mail (Saturday, March 14, 2009), F11. (Solicited)
  • “Sidgwick’s Philosophical Intuitions”, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 10 (2008), 185-209. (Solicited)
  • Critical Notice of Robert Audi, The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 305-325. (Refereed)
  • “Schultz’s Sidgwick”, Utilitas 19 (2007), 91-103. (Refereed)
  • “Henry Sidgwick’s Practical Ethics: A Defense”, Utilitas 18 (2006), 199-217. (Refereed)
  • Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis (eds.), Utilitarianism and Empire, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/, July 12, 2006. (Solicited)
  • Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900)”, The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, eds., J. Mander and A. P. F. Sell (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002), 1018-1028. (Solicited)

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