Christine M. Koggel
Christine Koggel is the Bower Carty Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs and Director of the Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE). She comes to Carleton from Bryn Mawr College, PA, where she was Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for International Studies. Her main research and teaching interests are in the areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, and social and political theory. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory (1998) and editor of Moral Issues in Global Perspective (1999) and of the Second edition of an expanded three volumes of Moral Issues in Global Perspective (Volume I: Moral and Political Theory; Volume II: Human Diversity and Equality; and Volume III: Moral Issues) (2006). With Wesley Cragg she has co-edited the Fourth edition of Contemporary Moral Issues (1997) as well as the Fifth edition of Contemporary Moral Issues (2005). Her most recent research is in the area of development ethics. She has contributed an article on agency to a special volume on the work of Amartya Sen in Feminist Economics and is currently doing work on the concept of empowerment for which she and Jay Drydyk have been awarded a research grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is currently President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Executive member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), and a member of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on the Status of Women.
Christine Koggel is on leave 2009/10 and 2010/11.
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