Professor Philip Stratton-Lake
Responsibilities
Research Division Leader
Unit of Assessment Lead
Post Graduate Admissions
Areas of Interest
Moral Philosophy, including moral realism, axiology, moral epistemology, ethical intuitionism, and Kant's ethics.
Ongoing research in Monograph on Rossian pluralism, and various articles on moral epistemology, the buck-passing account of value, achievement and well-being, and meaningfulness.
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
2021
Stratton-Lake, P. (2021) Derivative deprivation and the wrong of abortion. Bioethics, 35 (3). pp. 277-283. ISSN 1467-8519 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12842
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) Intuition, self-evidence, and understanding. In: Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198784647.003.0002
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