Associate Professor Christopher Cordner
Christopher Cordner is Associate Professor in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry at the University of Melbourne.
He is Convenor of the Philosophy Program, and Deputy Head of School.
His main area of research interest is moral philosophy. His book Ethical Encounter was published in 2002 by Palgrave/Macmillan, and he has published widely in philosophical journals.
His approach to moral philosophy is against the grain of most approaches. He is currently writing a book on goodness, neglected by moral philosophers but seminal in ethics.
Outside the academy, Christopher Cordner was for nine years a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee, a principal committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Among other roles, from 2004 to 2006 he chaired the joint working party overseeing the revision of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, Australia’s national guidelines for research ethics.
Contact:
Phone (613) 83447564
Email: ccordner@unimelb.edu.au
Some recent publications
CORDNER, Christopher. _ Waiting, Patience and Love, in Waiting ed G. Hage, Melbourne University Press, 2009, pp. 169-183
CORDNER, Christopher. – Remorse and Moral Identity, in Practical Identity and Narrative Agency eds K. Atkins and C. Mackenzie, Routledge, London & New York, 2008, pp. 232-251
CORDNER, Christopher. – Foucault, ethical self-concern and the other, Philosophia 36 (4), December 2008: pp. 593-609
CORDNER, Christopher. – Three perspectives on contemporary moral philosophy, Philosophical Investigations 30 (1), 2007: pp. 65-84
CORDNER, C.D. & THOMSON C. – No Need to Go! Workplace Studies and the Resources of the revised National Statement, Monash Bioethics Review 26 (3) 2007: pp. 37-48
CORDNER, Christopher. – Guilt, Remorse and Victims, Philosophical Investigations 30 (4), 2007: pp. 337-362
ANDERSON, W.P., CORDNER, C.D., BREEN, K.J. – Strengthening Australia’s Framework for Research Oversight, Med. J. Aust 184 (6), 2006: pp. 261-263
CORDNER, Christopher. – Life and Death Matters: Losing a Sense of the Value of Human Beings, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 26, 2005: pp. 207-226
CORDNER, Christopher. – Foucault and Ethical Universality, Inquiry 47, 2004: pp. 580-596
CORDNER, Christopher. - The Meaning of Graceful Movement, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, XXX, 2003: pp. 132-143
CORDNER, Christopher. - Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning, Palgrave (formerly Macmillan), London and New York, 2002