Garrett Cullity

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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My work includes publications on eight broad topics in moral philosophy:

practical reasons and rationality
"moral reasons" and their content
value and fittingness
beneficence and aid
moral theory and anti-theory
moral virtues and "virtue ethics"
moral epistemology
cooperation and public goods

For a list of publications organized under these headings, and links to papers, see my personal site:

http://www.garrettcullity.com/

or alternatively:

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/garrett.cullity

Journals

Year	Citation
2025	Streck, C., Minoli, S., Roe, S., Barry, C., Brander, M., Chiquier, S., . . . Zarin, D. (2025). Considering durability in carbon dioxide removal strategies for climate change mitigation. Climate Policy, 9 pages. DOI
2025	Barry, C., & Cullity, G. (2025). Another Shake of the Bag: Stefansson and Willners on Offsetting and Risk Imposition. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 28(1), 153-158. DOI
2023	Cullity, G. (2023). PARTICIPATORY MORAL REASONS: THEIR SCOPE AND STRENGTH. JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL ETHICS, 11(1), 1-23. DOI
2022	Barry, C., & Cullity, G. (2022). Do We Impose Undue Risk When We Emit and Offset? A Reply to Stefansson. Ethics Policy and Environment, 25(3), 242-248. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2022	Cullity, G. (2022). Discriminate Virtue. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6(2), 180-188. DOI
2022	Barry, C., & Cullity, G. (2022). Offsetting and risk imposition. Ethics, 132(2), 352-381. DOI Scopus17
2021	Cullity, G. (2021). Liberty, Security, and Fairness. Journal of Ethics, 25(2), 141-159. DOI Scopus1
2021	Cullity, G. (2021). Moral Disagreement, Self-Trust, and Complacency. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15 pages. DOI Scopus1
2020	Cullity, G. (2020). Introduction. Australasian Philosophical Review, 4(4), 289-292. DOI
2019	Cullity, G. M. (2019). Climate harms. The Monist, 102(1), 22-41. DOI Scopus17 WoS7
2019	Cullity, G. (2019). Exceptions in nonderivative value. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 98(1), 26-49. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2017	Cullity, G. (2017). Mancilla, Alejandra. The right of necessity: moral cosmopolitanism and global poverty. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Pp. 140. $90.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Ethics, 128(1), 260-264. DOI
2016	Cullity, G. (2016). Describing rationality. Philosophical Studies, 173(12), 3399-3411. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2014	Cullity, G. M. (2014). Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang (eds), "Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams”. The Philosophical Quarterly, 64(256), 520-523. DOI
2014	Cullity, G. (2014). The Limits of kindness, by Caspar Hare. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 92(4), 791-794. DOI
2013	Cullity, G. (2013). The context-undermining of practical reasons. Ethics, 124(1), 8-34. DOI Scopus15 WoS7
2013	Cullity, G. M. (2013). David Stove, "What’s Wrong with Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment”. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91, 206-208.
2009	Cullity, G. M. (2009). Elijah Milgram, Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory”. Ethics, 119, 581-585.
2008	Cullity, G. (2008). Pyrrhic Pyrrhonism. Philosophical Quarterly, 58(233), 720-731. DOI
2008	Cullity, G. (2008). Decisions, Reasons and Rationality. Ethics, 119(1), 57-95. DOI Scopus24 WoS14
2008	Cullity, G. (2008). A theory of virtue : excellence in being for the good. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(4), 695-696. DOI
2008	Cullity, G. (2008). Public goods and fairness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(1), 1-21. DOI Scopus26 WoS20
2007	Cullity, G. (2007). Thinking How to Live – Allan Gibbard. Philosophical Quarterly, 57(227), 308-311. DOI WoS1
2006	Cullity, G. (2006). As you were? Moral philosophy and the aetiology of moral experience. Philosophical Explorations, 9(7), 117-131. DOI Scopus6
2006	Palmer, N., Braunack-Mayer, A., Rogers, W., Provis, C., & Cullity, G. (2006). Conflicts of interest in divisions of general practice. Journal of Medical Ethics, 32(12), 715-717. DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC3
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). Welfare and Rational Care. By Stephen Darwall. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), 375-378. DOI
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). John Broome "Weighing Lives". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 12(03), 1-6.
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). Deen K Chatterjee. The ethics of assistance: morality and the distant needy. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 08(13), 1-5.
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). WILLIAMS, Bernard Arthur Owen (1929-2003). Unknown Journal, 1-2, 1132-1138. DOI
2004	Cullity, G., & Gerrans, P. (2004). Agency and Policy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 104(1), 317-327. DOI
2004	Cullity, G., & Gerrans, P. (2004). Agency and policy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 104(1), 315-327. DOI Scopus6
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). Sympathy, discernment, and reasons. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68(1), 37-62. DOI WoS3
2003	Cullity, G. (2003). Beneficence, rights and citizenship. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 9(2), 85-105. DOI Scopus2
2003	Cullity, G. (2003). In search of foundations of rationality. Philosophical Books, 44(1), 4-11. DOI
2003	Cullity, G. (2003). Asking too much. Monist, 86(3), 402-418. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2002	Cullity, G. (2002). Particularism and presumptive reasons. Aristotelian Society. Proceedings, Supplementary Volume, 76(1), 169-190. DOI Scopus23
2002	Cullity, G. (2002). Roger Crisp and Brad Hooker (eds.), Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 80(4), 538-540. DOI
2002	Cullity, G., & Holton, R. (2002). Particularism and moral theory. Principles and particularism: II - Richard Holton. Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society Supplementary Volumes, 76(1), 191-209. Scopus12
1999	Cullity, G. M. (1999). Paul Rabinow, "French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory”. The New York Times Book Review, 34.
1999	Cullity, G. M. (1999). Virtue ethics, theory, and warrant. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2(3), 277-294. DOI
1999	Cullity, G. M. (1999). Why Live This Way?. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement.
1998	Cullity, G. M. (1998). Life from the Inside. Philosophical Books, 39, 91-104.
1998	Cullity, G. M. (1998). Nancy Sherman, "Making a Necessity of Virtue”. European Journal of Philosophy, 6, 234-238.
1998	Cullity, G. M. (1998). Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin (eds), "The Constitution of Good Societies”. Ethics, 108, 838.
1997	Cullity, G. M. (1997). Russell Hardin, "One for All: The Logic of Collective Action”. Ethics, 107, 361-363.
1997	Cullity, G. M. (1997). R. Jay Wallace, "Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments”. Mind, 106, 803-807.
1995	Cullity, G. M. (1995). Moral free riding. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 24(1), 3-34. DOI Scopus101 WoS67
1995	Cullity, G. M. (1995). Moral character and the iteration problem. Utilitas, 7(2), 289-299. DOI Scopus16
1995	Cullity, G. M. (1995). Aretaic cognitivism. American Philosophical Quarterly, 32(4), 395-406.
1994	Cullity, G. M. (1994). International aid and the scope of kindness. Ethics, 105(1), 99-127. DOI WoS21
1993	Cullity, G. M. (1993). Michael Freeden, Rights. The Philosophical Quarterly, 43, 123-124.
1993	Cullity, G. M. (1993). C.L. Sheng, "A New Approach to Utilitarianism". The Philosophical Quarterly, 275.
1993	Cullity, G. M. (1993). John W. Yolton, "A Locke Dictionary". The Philosophical Quarterly, 581-582.

Books

Year	Citation
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Concern, respect, and cooperation. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. DOI Scopus19
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). The moral demands of affluence. Great Clarendon St, Oxford, OX2 6DP: Oxford University Press. DOI Scopus109
1997	Cullity, G., & Gaut, B. N. (1997). Ethics and Practical Reason. Oxford University Press.
1997	Cullity, G., & Gaut, B. N. (1997). Ethics and Practical Reason. Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2024	Cullity, G. (2024). Virtuous and vicious political disagreement. In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement (pp. 398-410). Routledge. DOI
2020	Cullity, G. (2020). Levels of climate action. In J. Moss, & L. Umbers (Eds.), Climate Justice and Non-State Actors: Corporations, Regions, Cities, and Individuals (pp. 12-28). Routledge. DOI Scopus1
2020	Cullity, G. (2020). Narrative virtues and second-order reasons. In Virtue, Narrative, and the Self: Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action (pp. 35-53). Routledge. DOI
2020	Cullity, G. M. (2020). Deliberative restriction and professional roles. In T. Dare, & C. Swanton (Eds.), Perspectives in Role Ethics Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation (pp. 173-193). New York, NY; USA: Routledge. DOI
2019	Cullity, G. (2019). Self-Ownership in Research Ethics. In Beyond Autonomy (pp. 81-95). Cambridge University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Substantive Moral Theory. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Objectivity and Shared Experience. In Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment (pp. 103-120). Routledge. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Norms, Reasons, and Fit. In G. Cullity (Ed.), Concern, Respect, and Cooperation. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). A Morality of Relationships. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Foundations for Morality. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Using Others as a Means. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Normative Derivations. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Content-Undermining. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Moral Virtues. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Consumption. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Context-Undermining. Oxford University Press. DOI
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Stupid goodness. In K. Jones, & F. Schroeter (Eds.), The many moral rationalisms (pp. 227-246). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI Scopus5
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Objectivity and Shared Experience Art and Morality. In J. McMahon (Ed.), Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability (pp. 103-120). New York and London: Routledge.
2018	Cullity, G. (2018). Weighing reasons. In D. Star (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of reasons and normativity (pp. 423-442). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. DOI Scopus20
2017	Cullity, G. (2017). Moral Virtues and Responsiveness for Reasons. In N. Birondo (Ed.), Virtue's Reasons New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons (pp. 11-31). New York: Routledge. DOI Scopus6
2016	Cullity, G. (2016). Demandingness, 'ought', and self-shaping. In M. van Ackeren (Ed.), The Limits of Moral Obligation (pp. 147-162). New York: Routledge. DOI Scopus2
2016	Pender, J. (2016). Introduction. In K. Kilner (Ed.), Players: Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film (Vol. n/a, 1 ed., pp. 1-4). University of Queensland, St Lucia: AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource 2004-. DOI
2015	Cullity, G. (2015). Acts, omissions, emissions. In J. Moss (Ed.), Climate Change and Justice (1 ed., pp. 148-164). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
2015	Cullity, G. (2015). Neutral and relative value. In J. Olson, & I. Hirose (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (1 ed., pp. 96-116). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. DOI
2013	Cullity, G. M. (2013). Aid, Ethics of. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 178-184). Wiley. DOI
2013	Cullity, G. M. (2013). Charity. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 738-744). Wiley. DOI
2013	Cullity, G. M. (2013). Free riding. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 2020-2027). Wiley. DOI
2013	Cullity, G. M. (2013). Impartiality. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 2560-2566). Wiley. DOI
2012	Mortensen, C., Nerlich, G., Cullity, G., & O'Brien, G. (2012). Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. In N. Harvey, J. Fornasiero, G. McCarthy, C. Macintyre, & C. Crossin (Eds.), A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012: Celebrating 125 Years of the Faculty of Arts (1 ed., pp. 351-358). Australia: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
2010	Cullity, G. (2010). Compromised Humanitarianism. In K. Horton (Ed.), Ethical Questions and International NGOs: an exchange between philosophers and NGOs (Vol. 23, pp. 157-174). Netherlands: Springer. DOI Scopus4
2009	Cullity, G. (2009). Demandingness and arguments from presupposition. In Timothy Chappell (Ed.), The Problem of Moral Demandingness: New Philosophical Essays (1 ed., pp. 8-34). Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan.
2007	Cullity, G. (2007). The moral, the personal and the political. In Igor Primoratz (Ed.), Politics and Morality (pp. 54-75). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. DOI Scopus5
2007	Cullity, G. (2007). Fremde in Not - Wohltatigkeit, Rechte und Staatsburgerschaft. In B. Bleisch, & P. Schaber (Eds.), Weltarmut und Ethik (pp. 53-75). Germany: Mentis.
2007	Cullity, G. (2007). Beneficence. In R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper, & J. McMillan (Eds.), Principles of Health Care Ethics (2 ed., pp. 19-26). West Sussex, England, UK: Wiley. DOI Scopus12
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). Moral Judgement. In The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (pp. 692-695). London: Routledge. DOI
2005	Cullity, G. (2005). Bernard Williams. In Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (pp. 1132-1138). London: Thoemmes Contimuum.
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). Equality and globalization. In K. Horton, & H. Patapan (Eds.), Globalisation and equality (pp. 6-22). 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001: Routledge. DOI Scopus3
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Life-Saving Analogy</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 7-15). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Rejection of the Extreme Demand</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 128-146). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Extreme Demand</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 70-89). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>An Argument from Beneficence</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 16-33). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Overview</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 189-204). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Requirement</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 167-188). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Permission</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 147-166). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Saving Lives</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 54-69). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Impartiality, Fairness, and Beneficence</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 111-127). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2004	Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Objections to Aid</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 34-53). Oxford University PressOxford. DOI
2002	Cullity, G. (2002). The life-saving analogy. In Ethics for Everyday (pp. 552-568). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
2001	Cullity, G. (2001). Public Goods. In L. Becker, & C. Becker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Ethics (Vol. III, 2nd ed., pp. 1413-1416). New York: Routledge.
2001	Cullity, G. (2001). International aid the the scope of kindness. In Business Ethics: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, Vol 3 (pp. 161-190). London: Routledge.
2000	Cullity, G. M. (2000). Pooled beneficence. In M. J. Almeida (Ed.), Imperceptible harms and benefits (pp. 1-23). Kluwer. DOI
1997	Cullity, G. M., & Gaut, B. (1997). Introduction. In G. M. Cullity, & B. Gaut (Eds.), Ethics and practical reason (Vol. 12, pp. 1-27). Clarendon Press. DOI
1997	Cullity, G. M. (1997). Practical theory. In G. M. Cullity, & B. Gaut (Eds.), Ethics and practical reason (pp. 101-124). Clarendon Press.
1992	Butterss, P. R. (1992). Introduction. In Steele Rudd (Ed.), On Our Selection (pp. v-xiii). Oxford University Press. DOI

ARC Discovery—Projects grants on the following topics:

“Reason and Value in Normative Ethics” (2013-15)
“Egalitarian Responses to Climate Change” (2010-13)
“Structured Moral Pluralism” (2008-10)
“The Morality of Cooperation and Concern” (2005-7)
“The Morality of Assistance” (2003)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	The Role of Intuition in Moral Knowledge	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Nicholas James Smyth
2020 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	To Blame or Not to Blame: Respect, Fittingness, and Standing	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Henry Littleton Phillips
2019 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Normative Uncertainty and Information Value	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Riley Kent Worland Harris
2018 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Ms Rebecca Aroha Randell
2017 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	A Consequentialist Evaluation of Industry Funding and Commercialisation of Public Biomedical Research	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Alexander Warwick Greville
2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	A Critique of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Moral Philosophy	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Dominic Newnham
2017 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Refugee Right from a Kantian Perspective	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Samuel William Hutchinson
2017 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Moral Agency	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Timothy Nailer
2016 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Vindicating Vague Objects	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Michael Lazarou
2011 - 2014	Principal Supervisor	The Value of Benevolence: Spinoza and Perfectionism	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Jason Paul Tillett
2010 - 2012	Co-Supervisor	The Role of Emotion in Rational Decision-Making	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Alison Harwood
2010 - 2013	Co-Supervisor	The Ethical, Legal, and Social Acceptability of Health Data Linkage in the Australian Context: An Investigation of Current Practices, Perceptions, and Public Attitudes	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Vicki Xafis
2005 - 2008	Principal Supervisor	Reasons, Capacities and the Motivational Requirement	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Rosemary Lowry
2004 - 2010	Co-Supervisor	Autonomy and Chronic Condition Self-Management Programs	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Esther Speight
2003 - 2006	Principal Supervisor	Indeterminacy and Personal Identity	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Matthew Harvey
2002 - 2007	Principal Supervisor	Responsibility, Compensation and Accident Law Reform	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Nicole Vincent

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2014 - ongoing Associate Editor Philosophy and Public Affairs - -

Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
2014 - ongoing	Associate Editor	Philosophy and Public Affairs	-	-

Email: garrett.cullity@adelaide.edu.au

Garrett Cullity

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