Anthony Skelton

Anthony Skelton is currently Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and at Fondation Brocher in Hermance, CHE. His research is in the areas of normative ethics, the history of ethics, and applied ethics. He has published articles in Ethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Law Quarterly Review, The British Medical Journal, and Utilitas, and in volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge. He is the co-editor (with Lisa Forsberg and Isra Black) of Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being (Proceedings of the British Academy, 2025) and of Bioethics in Canada, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is the author of Sidgwick’s Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In 2015, he received the Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award, in 2019–20 he was the Graham and Gail Wright Distinguished Scholar in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and in 2023–25 he was Faculty Scholar. He has written popular pieces for The Conversation, The Globe and Mail, The Winnipeg Free Press, and Western News. He has appeared on television and on radio, including on the BBC, the CBC, CTV News, Global News, and TV Ontario. In 2022, he was the recipient (with Lisa Forsberg) of the American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest Prize.