Christine Koggel

Biography

Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Supervisor. She comes to Carleton from Bryn Mawr College, PA, where she was the Harvey Wexler Professor 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), a book that brings together her interests in moral, social, political and feminist theory. She is the 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). She also has interests in Wittgenstein, particularly in Wittgenstein’s account of meaning as use as it applies to moral concepts, about which she has written an article in Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2003). 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 does work on the concept of empowerment for which she and Jay Drydyk were awarded a research grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the former President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Board member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), and Associate Editor of the North American Editorial Board for Ethics and Social Welfare.

Research Interest

Moral Theory Practical Ethics Feminist Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy Development Ethics