John Skorupski

Biographic Data

ID148208
NAMEJohn Skorupski
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMESkorupski
SIGNATURESKORUPSKI J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of St Andrews
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS70
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • The Roots of Normativity

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2023

    Joseph Raz died last year. Sadly, then, this collection of essays, some previously published, and some unpublished, may stand as his last contribution to philosophy. So, it is very good to be able to say that they exemplify his strength and originality as a moral philosopher: his wisdom, care in working through an argument, suspicion of merely fashionable claims, and intentness in arriving in his own way at his own view. Of course, they are not e…

  • Rawls, Liberalism, and Democracy

    John SkorupskiARTICLEEthics2017

    This article offers a critique of John Rawls’s great work, Political Liberalism, from a non-Rawlsian liberal standpoint. It argues that Rawlsian political liberalism is influenced as much by a comprehensive view I call “radical-democracy” as by comprehensive liberal views. This can be seen in Rawls’s account of some of political liberalism’s fundamental ideas—notably the idea of society as a fair system of cooperation, the “liberal” principle of …

  • Reply to Kurt Sylvan: Constructivism? Not Kant, not I

    John SkorupskiARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2016References: 4

    Kurt Sylvan's generous discussion of my book, The Domain of Reasons, argues that its account of reason relations would be strengthened if I accepted some version of ‘Kantian constructivism’, and that that would, moreover, bring me closer to Kant. I argue against both these claims. I do not agree that ‘Kantian constructivism’, understood in its contemporary sense, would strengthen my account of normativity. Nor do I agree that adopting it would ma…

  • The conservative critique of liberalism

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Liberalism2015

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism

    Open AccessSteven A Wall, Richard Arneson et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to Liberalism2015

    The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalis…

  • The Liberal Critique of Democracy

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiCHAPTEREast Asian Challenge for Democracy2013

    It is conventional to talk of the "liberal democracies" of the West. This phrase suggests an assumption – that democracy is one of liberalism's fundamental tenets; the assumption now seems, by and large, to be taken for granted. Historically, however, liberals had grave reservations about democracy. In Europe, these reservations emerged particularly clearly soon after the French Revolution, in the form of a conflict between two ideals of the new …

  • The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective

    Open AccessJoseph Chan, Tongdong Bai et al.BOOKEast Asian Challenge for Democracy2013

    The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The res…

  • Analytic Philosophy, the Analytic School, and British Philosophy

    John SkorupskiBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of The…2013

    The main stream of academic philosophy, in Anglophone countries and increasingly worldwide, is identified by the name 'analytic'. The study of its history, from the 19th century to the late 20th, has boomed in recent years. These specially commissioned essays by forty leading scholars constitute the most comprehensive book on the subject

  • Précis of The Domain of Reasons

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2012

  • Reply to Cassam, Olson, and Railton

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2012

    I am very grateful to my fellow symposiasts for their probing comments. Each raises issues that are central to the arguments of The Domain of Reasons. It is a pleasure to respond to them. Let me turn first to the comments of Quassim Cassam. As he notes, I distinguish between reasons and what I call ‘warranted reasons’, and I often refer to the latter, for brevity, simply as reasons that a person ‘has’. However I do also note that we use that expr…

  • The Domain of Reasons

    John SkorupskiBOOKThe domain of reasons2010

    This text is about normativity and reasons. But by the end the subject becomes the relation between self, thought and world. Skorupski argues that the key concepts of epistemology and moral theory are normative concepts, and that what makes them normative is that they depend on reasons.

  • The Routledge Companion to Ethics

    John SkorupskiBOOKThe Routledge companion to ethics2010

  • Propositions about Reasons

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEEuropean Journal of Philosophy2006Cited by: 4References: 2

  • Blame, Respect and Recognition: A Reply to Theo van Willigenburg

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEUtilitas2005

    In an article in Utilitas Theo van Willigenburg has argued that moral valuation is distinguished from other forms of valuation by the Kantian concept of respect. He criticizes, from that standpoint, an account I put forward, which builds on the connections between moral wrongdoing, blame and withdrawal of recognition. I examine the difference between these two approaches and defend my own

  • Morality as Self-governance: Has it a Future

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEUtilitas2004

    In The Invention of Autonomy , Schneewind argues that a main development in early modern ethical thought is the transition from a conception of morality as obedience to a conception of morality as self-governance. I consider the presuppositions implicit in the latter conception and ask whether they can be maintained

  • Externalism and Self-governance

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEUtilitas2004Cited by: 1

    What outcomes are good, and what there is reason for one to do, is not generally determined by what one thinks or even what one has reason to think. But is a similarly ‘externalist’ account of the distinctively moral concepts, the concepts of moral duty or obligation, of moral wrongness, blameworthiness and guilt, appropriate? I argue not; and on that basis I suggest that an externalist account is not appropriate for the concept of a virtue eithe…

  • Ethics

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiOTHERThe Blackwell Companion to…2002

    This chapter contains sections titled: The Scope of Ethics Blame, Admiration and Desire Character, the Virtues and Freedom An Ethical Theory: The Case of Utilitarianism Impartiality What Can an Ethical Theory be Expected to Do? The Plurality of Value Practical Reason The Categorical Imperative and Contractualism 10 Reason, Morality and Religion Meta-ethics

  • Reply to Darwall

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEUtilitas2002

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  • Quality of Well-Being: Quality of Being

    John SkorupskiCHAPTEREthical Explorations2000

    It is an old idea that there is quality as well as quantity of well-being-that a distinction (perhaps a number of distinctions) can and should be drawn between higher and lower human goods. The implications of the idea differ according to the wider ethical framework in which one places it. But since virtually everyone thinks that a notion of individual well-being plays one or another major role in our ethical thought the questions at stake whethe…

  • Ethical Explorations

    John SkorupskiBOOKEthical Explorations2000

  • The Definition of Morality

    John SkorupskiCHAPTEREthical Explorations2000

    We use such terms as good, bad, right, wrong, should, ought, in many ways other than moral: good evidence and bad argument, right answers and wrong notes, novels which should be read, and policies which ought not to be adopted. The moral is a sphere of the practical and the practical itself only a sphere of the normative. Norms guide us in all we believe, feel, and do. Do these normative words then have a specifically moral sense? If so can it be…

  • Philosophy and Public Affairs

    Open AccessJ S Haldane, Samuel Brittan et al.BOOKPhilosophy and Public Affairs2000

    This collection of essays derives from a conference sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Centre of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews. It brings together a number of prominent academics from the fields of philosophy and political theory along with politicians and social commentators. The subjects covered include liberalism, education, welfare policy, religion, art and culture, and cloning. The mix of c…

  • Desire and Will in Sidgwick and Green

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEUtilitas2000Cited by: 1References: 1

    This paper examines T. H. Green's and Henry Sidgwick's differing views of desireand the will, and connectedly, their differing views of an individual's good and freedom. It is argued that Sidgwick makes effective criticisms of Green, but that important elements in Green's idealist view of an individual's good and freedom survive the criticism and remain significant today. It is also suggested that Sidgwick's own account of an individual's good is…

  • In a Socratic Way

    Open AccessJohn SkorupskiARTICLEDialogue1999

    This collection of essays is a mixed bag. It is intended to be, inasmuch as the selection has been made to show Robert Nozick's versatility as a philosopher and a writer. And it does so—but too much that is of passing interest is included. The first ten essays could have made a collection on their own. Nine of these are included within two sections: “Choice and Utility” and “Philosophy and Methodology.” The tenth, “Moral Complications and Moral S…

  • World, Mind and Ethics, Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams

    John Skorupski, Bernard WilliamsREVIEWThe Philosophical Review1997