Garrett Cullity

Garrett Cullity

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

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

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

 

Year Citation
2025 Barry, C., & Cullity, G. (2025). Which emissions belong to us? The case for contributory value-chain emissions accounting. Politics Philosophy and Economics, 28 pages.
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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.
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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.
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2023 Cullity, G. (2023). PARTICIPATORY MORAL REASONS: THEIR SCOPE AND STRENGTH. JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL ETHICS, 11(1), 1-23.
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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.
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2022 Cullity, G. (2022). Discriminate Virtue. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6(2), 180-188.
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2022 Barry, C., & Cullity, G. (2022). Offsetting and risk imposition. Ethics, 132(2), 352-381.
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2021 Cullity, G. (2021). Liberty, Security, and Fairness. Journal of Ethics, 25(2), 141-159.
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2021 Cullity, G. (2021). Moral Disagreement, Self-Trust, and Complacency. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15 pages.
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2020 Cullity, G. (2020). Introduction. Australasian Philosophical Review, 4(4), 289-292.
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2019 Cullity, G. M. (2019). Climate harms. The Monist, 102(1), 22-41.
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2019 Cullity, G. (2019). Exceptions in nonderivative value. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 98(1), 26-49.
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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.
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2016 Cullity, G. (2016). Describing rationality. Philosophical Studies, 173(12), 3399-3411.
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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.
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2014 Cullity, G. (2014). The Limits of kindness, by Caspar Hare. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 92(4), 791-794.
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2013 Cullity, G. (2013). The context-undermining of practical reasons. Ethics, 124(1), 8-34.
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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.
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2008 Cullity, G. (2008). Decisions, Reasons and Rationality. Ethics, 119(1), 57-95.
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2008 Cullity, G. (2008). A theory of virtue : excellence in being for the good. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(4), 695-696.
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2008 Cullity, G. (2008). Public goods and fairness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(1), 1-21.
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2007 Cullity, G. (2007). Thinking How to Live – Allan Gibbard. Philosophical Quarterly, 57(227), 308-311.
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2006 Cullity, G. (2006). As you were? Moral philosophy and the aetiology of moral experience. Philosophical Explorations, 9(7), 117-131.
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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.
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2005 Cullity, G. (2005). Welfare and Rational Care. By Stephen Darwall. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), 375-378.
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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.
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2004 Cullity, G., & Gerrans, P. (2004). Agency and Policy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 104(1), 317-327.
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2004 Cullity, G., & Gerrans, P. (2004). Agency and policy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 104(1), 315-327.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). Sympathy, discernment, and reasons. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68(1), 37-62.
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2003 Cullity, G. (2003). Beneficence, rights and citizenship. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 9(2), 85-105.
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2003 Cullity, G. (2003). In search of foundations of rationality. Philosophical Books, 44(1), 4-11.
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2003 Cullity, G. (2003). Asking too much. Monist, 86(3), 402-418.
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2002 Cullity, G. (2002). Particularism and presumptive reasons. Aristotelian Society. Proceedings, Supplementary Volume, 76(1), 169-190.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1995 Cullity, G. M. (1995). Moral character and the iteration problem. Utilitas, 7(2), 289-299.
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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.
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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.

Year Citation
2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Concern, respect, and cooperation. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). The moral demands of affluence. Great Clarendon St, Oxford, OX2 6DP: Oxford University Press.
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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.

Year Citation
2024 Cullity, G. (2024). Virtuous and vicious political disagreement. In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement (pp. 398-410). Routledge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2019 Cullity, G. (2019). Self-Ownership in Research Ethics. In Beyond Autonomy (pp. 81-95). Cambridge University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Substantive Moral Theory. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Objectivity and Shared Experience. In Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment (pp. 103-120). Routledge.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Norms, Reasons, and Fit. In G. Cullity (Ed.), Concern, Respect, and Cooperation. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). A Morality of Relationships. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Foundations for Morality. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Using Others as a Means. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Normative Derivations. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Content-Undermining. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Moral Virtues. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Consumption. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Context-Undermining. Oxford University Press.
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2018 Cullity, G. (2018). Stupid goodness. In K. Jones, & F. Schroeter (Eds.), The many moral rationalisms (pp. 227-246). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-.
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2015 Cullity, G. (2015). Acts, omissions, emissions. In J. Moss (Ed.), Climate Change and Justice (1 ed., pp. 148-164). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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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.
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2013 Cullity, G. M. (2013). Aid, Ethics of. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 178-184). Wiley.
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2013 Cullity, G. M. (2013). Charity. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 738-744). Wiley.
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2013 Cullity, G. M. (2013). Free riding. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 2020-2027). Wiley.
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2013 Cullity, G. M. (2013). Impartiality. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of ethics (pp. 2560-2566). Wiley.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2005 Cullity, G. (2005). Moral Judgement. In The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (pp. 692-695). London: Routledge.
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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.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Life-Saving Analogy</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 7-15). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Rejection of the Extreme Demand</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 128-146). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>The Extreme Demand</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 70-89). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>An Argument from Beneficence</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 16-33). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Overview</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 189-204). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Requirement</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 167-188). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Permission</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 147-166). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Saving Lives</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 54-69). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Impartiality, Fairness, and Beneficence</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 111-127). Oxford University PressOxford.
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2004 Cullity, G. (2004). <i>Objections to Aid</i>. In The Moral Demands of Affluence (pp. 34-53). Oxford University PressOxford.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)

 

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 - -

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