Professor Philip Stratton-Lake
Responsibilities
Areas of Interest
Moral Philosophy, including moral realism, axiology, moral epistemology, ethical intuitionism, and Kant's ethics.
Ongoing research in Monograph on Ross, and various articles defending the Buck-passing account of value.
Prof. Stratton-Lake is author of Kant, Duty, and Moral Worth, and is editor of Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, On what We Owe to Each Other, W. D. Ross's The Right and the Good, and the section on German Idealism in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Continental Philosophy.
PhD Supervision:
I am happy to supervise doctoral research projects in the following areas:
- Ethical Intuitionism
- Kant's moral philosophy
- Metaethics
- Normative ethics
Outside interests:
- Associate Editor of Kantian Review;
- Council member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Research groups / Centres
Publications
2018
Stratton-Lake, P. (2018) Necessarily co-extensive predicates and reduction. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 8 (4). pp. 282-299. ISSN 2210-5700 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22105700-20181333
2017
Stratton-Lake, P. (2017) The buck passing account of value: assessing the negative thesis. In: Kirchin, S. (ed.) Reading Parfit: On On What Matters. Routledge, London, pp. 82-95. ISBN 0415529506
2016
Stratton-Lake, P. (2016) Self-evidence, intuition and understanding. In: Madison Workshop in Metaethics.
2013
Stratton-Lake, P. (2013) Dancy on buck passing. In: Bakhurst, D., Hooker, B. and Little, M. O. (eds.) Thinking about reasons. Themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy. Oxford University Press, Oxford . ISBN 9780199604678
Stratton-Lake, P. (2013) Dancy on buck-passing. In: Bakhurst, D., Hooker, B. and Little, M. O. (eds.) Thinking About Reasons: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 76-96. ISBN 9780199604678
2012
Stratton-Lake, P. (2012) Rational intuitionism. In: Crisp, R. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 337-357. ISBN 9780199545971
2011
Stratton-Lake, P. (2011) Recalcitrant pluralism. Ratio, 24 (4). pp. 364-383. ISSN 1467-9329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00507.x
Stratton-Lake, P. (2011) Eliminativism about derivative prima facie duties. In: Hurka, T. (ed.) Underivative Duty: British Moralists from Sidgwick to Ewing. Oxford University Press, Oxford , pp. 146-165. ISBN 9780199577446
2010
Stratton-Lake, P. J. (2010) Intuitionism. In: Skorupski, J. (ed.) The Routledge companion to ethics. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 467-477. ISBN 9780415413626
2009
Stratton-Lake, P. (2009) Roger Crisp on goodness and reasons. Mind, 118 (472). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1460-2113 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzp136
Stratton-Lake, P. (2009) Ethical choice. In: Shand, J. (ed.) Central issues of philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 219-230. ISBN 9781405162708
2008
Stratton-Lake, P. (2008) Being virtuous and the virtues: two aspects of Kant's doctrine of virtue. In: Betzler, M. (ed.) Kant's ethics of virtue. Walter de Gruyter & Co, pp. 101-122. ISBN 9783110177282
2006
Stratton-Lake, P. (2006) Moral motivation in Kant. In: Bird, G. (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Kant. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 322-334. ISBN 9781405111973
Stratton-Lake, P. and Hooker, B. (2006) Scanlon versus Moore on goodness. In: Horgan, T. and Timmons, M. (eds.) Metaethics after Moore. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 149-168. ISBN 9780199269907
2005
Stratton-Lake, P. (2005) G.E. Moore: principia ethica. In: Shand, J. (ed.) The central works of philosophy. Acumen, Chesham, pp304. ISBN 9781844650194
Stratton-Lake, P. (2005) Ross, William David (1877-1971). In: Ellis, A. (ed.) Dictionary of Twentieth-century British philosophers. Thoemmes Press, pp1200. ISBN 9781843710967
Stratton-Lake, P. (2005) How to deal with evil demons: comment on Rabinowicz and Ronnow-Rasmussen. Ethics, 115 (4). pp. 788-798. ISSN 1539-297X doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/430491
Stratton-Lake, P. (2005) Prichard, Harold Arthur (1871-1947). In: Ellis, A. (ed.) Dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers. Thoemmes Press, pp1200. ISBN 9781843710967
2004
Stratton-Lake, P. J. (2004) Introduction. In: Stratton-Lake, P. J. (ed.) On What We Owe to Each Other. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781405119214
Stratton-Lake, P. J., ed. (2004) On what we owe to each other. Blackwell, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781405119214
2003
Stratton-Lake, P. J. (2003) Intuicjonizm w filozofii anglosaskiej. In: Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii. Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu, Lublin, Poland, pp. 902-904. ISBN 839188001X
Stratton-Lake, P. J. (2003) Scanlon's contractualism and the redundancy objection. Analysis, 63 (1). pp. 70-76. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0003-2638.2003.00398.x
Stratton-Lake, P. J. (2003) Scanlon, permissions and redundancy: response to McNaughton and Rawling. Analysis, 63 (4). pp. 332-337. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/63.4.332