John Skorupski

John Skorupski (born 19 September 1946) is a British philosopher whose main interests are epistemology, ethics and moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy. He is best known for his work on John Stuart Mill and his study of normativity, The Domain of Reasons. His most recent publication is Being and Freedom: on Late Modern Ethics in Europe.

Career Skorupski was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing. He studied philosophy and economics at Christ's College, Cambridge, from which he received both an MA and a PhD.

Publications Books Symbol and Theory: A Philosophical Study of Theories of Religion in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. John Stuart Mill. London: Routledge, 1989. English-Language Philosophy 1750–1945. (OPUS History of Western Philosophy, vol. 6) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Virtue and Taste: Essays in Memory of Flint Schier. Edited by John Skorupski and Dudley Knowles. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy: John Stuart Mill. Edited by John Skorupski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Ethical Explorations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Why Read Mill Today? London: Routledge, 2006. The Domain of Reasons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Being and Freedom: on Late Modern Ethics in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Papers Buckpassing about goodness, In Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz, ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson and D. Egonsson, 2007.