Philip Schofield

Biographic Data

ID3980715
NAMEPhilip Schofield
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMESchofield
SIGNATURESCHOFIELD P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-9997-4184
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT15
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1830
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Jeremy Bentham: Prophet of Secularism

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEJournal of Bentham Studies2024

    Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the philosopher and reformer, pointed out that the original Greek term for prophet referred in its most extensive sense to a person who ‘speaks out’, and in a more limited extent to a person who ‘foretells’. Every politician who advocated a measure that he thought was beneficial, noted Bentham, was therefore a prophet. The term, however, had been appropriated by ‘religionists’, who had seized on its ambiguity to furthe…

  • David Lieberman (1953–2022) and His Contribution to Bentham Scholarship

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEJournal of Bentham Studies2024

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  • Jeremy Bentham on adult-child sex and infanticide

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2024

  • Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, utility and empire

    Open AccessTimothy Causer, Margot Finn et al.BOOKJeremy Bentham and Australia2022

    Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham published by UCL Press. In the present collection, a distinguished group of authors reflect on Bentham’s Australian writings, making original contributions…

  • Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia

    Open AccessPhilip Schofield, Tim CauserBOOKPanopticon versus New South Wales…2022

    The present edition of Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia consists of fragmentary comments headed ‘New Wales’, dating from 1791; a compilation of material sent to William Wilberforce in August 1802; three ‘Letters to Lord Pelham’ and ‘A Plea for the Constitution’, written in 1802–3; and ‘Colonization Company Proposal’, written in August 1831, the majority of which is published here for the first time. These writings…

  • Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley, by Niall O’Flaherty

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEThe English Historical Review2020

    Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley, by Niall O’Flaherty Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Moral and Political Thought of William Paley, by Niall O’Flaherty (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2019; pp. 339. £75). Philip Schofield Philip Schofield University College London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Histor…

  • Bentham and the Arts

    Open AccessAnthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn et al.BOOKBentham and the Arts2019

    Bentham and the Arts considers the sceptical challenge presented by Bentham’s hedonistic utilitarianism to the existence of the aesthetic, as represented in the oft-quoted statement that, ‘Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either.’ This statement is one part of a complex set of arguments on culture, taste, …

  • B entham, J eremy

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher and reformer, was born in London and was educated at Westminster School and Queen's College, Oxford. Destined by his father for a legal career, and having qualified as a barrister in 1769, Bentham decided that his vocation was not legal practice but legal reform. His first major enterprise was to draft a complete penal code, which led him to investigate fundamental ideas in jurisprudence. Leaving th…

  • ‘The People is my Cæsar’: Jeremy Bentham’s Radical Democratic State

    Philip SchofieldCHAPTERConstitution in crisis2017

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Preparatory Principles

    Jeremy Bentham, Douglas G Long et al.BOOKPreparatory Principles2016

    "This present volume reproduces three related bodies of manuscripts, under the titles 'Preparatory Principles: Insereda', 'Preparatory Principles: Introduction', and 'Preparatory Principles: What a Law is', written by Jeremy Bentham in the mid-1770s and dealing generally with the philosophy of law."--Editorial introduction, page xi. "Preparatory Principles is not a linear text in the conventional sense, but consists of a series of short passages …

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Book of Fallacies

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip SchofieldBOOKBook of Fallacies2015

  • Jeremy Bentham on Utility and Truth

    Philip SchofieldARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2015Cited by: 1

    Jeremy Bentham has two very strong commitments in his thought: one is to the principle of utility, or the greatest happiness principle, as the fundamental principle of morality; the other is to truth, as indicated, for instance, in his opposition to falsehood and fiction in the law. How, then, did Bentham view the relationship between utility and truth? Did he think that utility and truth simply coincided, and hence that falsehood necessarily led…

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings On Sexual Morality

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip Schofield et al.BOOKOf Sexual Irregularities And…2014

    "The present volume contains three essays, 'Of Sexual Irregularities', 'Sextus', and 'General Idea of Not Paul, but Jesus', written in the mid-1810s but never before been published in authoritative form. Bentham presents the utilitarian case for sexual liberty on the grounds that the gratification of the sexual appetite constituted the purest form of pleasure, in opposition to the traditional Christian view that the only morally acceptable form o…

  • The Legal and Political Legacy of Jeremy Bentham

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2013Cited by: 2References: 8

    The study of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the English legal philosopher and reformer, is being transformed by the appearance of volumes in the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Following revisionist studies in the 1980s and 1990s that reasserted Bentham's credentials as a key figure in the emergence of the liberal tradition, more recent work has explored an increasingly varied range of topics from the perspective …

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal

    Jeremy Bentham, Catherine Pease-Watkin et al.BOOKOn The Liberty Of The Press And…2012

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip SchofieldBOOKOf the limits of the penal branch…2010

    "The present edition of 'Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence' supersedes 'Of Laws in General,' edited by H.L.A. Hart and published by the Athlone Press in 1970, as a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham." --P. xi.

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, Vol. 2: Volume II

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip Schofield et al.BOOKWritings on the Poor Laws2010

  • Jeremy Bentham and HLA Hart's ‘Utilitarian Tradition in Jurisprudence

    Philip SchofieldARTICLEJurisprudence2010Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Werner Stark and Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings

    Philip SchofieldARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2009Cited by: 1

    Since its publication in three volumes in 1952–1954, Werner Stark's edition of Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings has been the standard source for the study of the economic thought of Jeremy Bentha

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 12: July 1824 to June 1828: July 1824 to June 1828

    George Canning, Sydney Smith et al.BOOKThe Collected Works of Jeremy…2006

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Securities Against Misrule and Other Constitutional Writings for Tripoli and Greece

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip SchofieldBOOKSecurities against misrule and…2006

  • Utility and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham

    Philip SchofieldBOOKUtility and Democracy2006

  • Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution and political radicalism

    Philip SchofieldARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2004Cited by: 3

    An unresolved debate in Bentham scholarship concerns the question of the timing and circumstances which led to Bentham's 'conversion' to democracy, and thus to political radicalism. In the early stages of the French Revolution, Bentham composed material which appeared to justify equality of suffrage on utilitarian grounds, but there are differing interpretations concerning the extent and depth of Bentham's commitment to democracy at this time. Th…

  • Jeremy Bentham's ‘Nonsense upon Stilts’

    Open AccessPhilip SchofieldARTICLEUtilitas2003Cited by: 3

    Jeremy Bentham's ‘Nonsense upon Stilts’, hitherto known as ‘Anarchical Fallacies’, has recently appeared in definitive form in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham . The essay contains what is arguably the most influential critique of natural rights, and by extension human rights, ever written. Bentham's fundamental argument was that natural rights lacked any ontological basis, except to the extent that they reflected the personal desires of tho…

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revol…

    Jeremy Bentham, Philip Schofield et al.BOOKRights, representation, and reform2002