Alastair Norcross is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He obtained his BA in Classics from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Philosophy from Syracuse University. Subsequently he has worked at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Southern Methodist University, and Rice University. Norcross teaches and writes on ethical theory, in particular utilitarianism, and several areas of applied ethics, including issues relating to animals. He is
the co-editor of Killing and Letting Die, Second Edition (Fordham 1994, with Bonnie Steinbock).