b. 1961
Roger Crisp is a British moral philosopher and Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. He has made significant contributions to normative ethics, metaethics, and the history of moral philosophy, with particular focus on well-being, reasons, and virtue ethics. His work engages both contemporary analytic ethics and the classical tradition, including major scholarship on Aristotle and Henry Sidgwick.
Developed influential hedonist and fitting-attitude accounts of well-being in Reasons and the Good (2006)
Produced a widely used translation and edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for Cambridge University Press
Contributed to fitting attitude theories, arguing moral concepts like wrongness can be analyzed via appropriate emotional responses such as resentment
Authored The Cosmos of Duty, a major study of Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics
Edited key anthologies in virtue ethics and contributed to the revival of classical ethical theory in analytic philosophy