Christopher W. Morris

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Christopher Warren Morris
Born (1949-06-07) 7 June 1949 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Toronto
Institutions University of Maryland
Main interests

Christopher Warren Morris (born June 7, 1949) [1] is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Maryland, where he is also a member of the Faculty of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy. [2] [3]

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His main research areas are moral, legal and political philosophy as well as practical rationality. [4]

Early life

Morris gained his psychology and philosophy degree from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York in 1971, he went on to University of Toronto to do both his philosophy master's (1974) and his philosophy doctorate (1977). [2]

Academic career

From 1977 to 1982 he was the assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Morris then spent a number of years as a visiting lecturer at a number of universities. In 1986 he took up a position as associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), he was made senior research fellow of BGSU's Social Philosophy & Policy Center in 1990, and from 1994 until he left in 2001 to go to the University of Maryland, he was their professor of philosophy. [2]

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References

  1. "Christopher W. Morris". Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Department of Philosophy - Christopher W. Morris, Professor & Chair (CV)". University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  3. Morris, Christopher (2009), "Contributors", in Morris, Christopher (ed.), Amartya Sen, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. xi–xii, ISBN   9780521618069
  4. Table of contents (January 2012). "Contributors, Christopher W. Morris". Social Philosophy and Policy. 29 (1): xvii–xix. doi:10.1017/S0265052511000021. S2CID   233358330.