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  1. Lessons of Murdochian Attention.Christopher Cordner - 2016 - Sophia 55 (2):197-213.
    The idea of attention was brought back into mainstream philosophical thinking about ethics by Iris Murdoch, drawing on Simone Weil. While Murdoch’s use of the idea has been reflected on by a number of recent commentators, I think its deepest lessons have largely been missed. Beginning from a recurrent and revealing misreading of Murdoch on attention, a misreading often articulated through reflection on Murdoch’s example of M and D, I want to bring out some of those lessons. It is well-known (...)
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    Differences Between Sport and Art.Christopher Cordner - 1988 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 15 (1):31-47.
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    Foucault and ethical universality.Christopher Cordner - 2004 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 47 (6):580 – 596.
    Foucault's resistance to a universalist ethics, especially in his later writings, is well-known. Foucault thinks that ethical universalism presupposes a shared human essence, and that this presupposition makes it a straitjacket, an attempt to force people to conform to an externally imposed 'pattern'. Foucault's hostility may be warranted for one - perhaps the usual - conception of ethical universality. But there are other conceptions of ethical universality that are not vulnerable to Foucault's criticism, and that are ethically and culturally important. (...)
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  4. Foucault, ethical self-concern and the other.Christopher Cordner - 2008 - Philosophia 36 (4):593-609.
    In his later writings on ethics Foucault argues that rapport à soi – the relationship to oneself – is what gives meaning to our commitment to ‘moral behaviour’. In the absence of rapport à soi, Foucault believes, ethical adherence collapses into obedience to rules (‘an authoritarian structure’). I make a case, in broadly Levinasian terms, for saying that the call of ‘the other’ is fundamental to ethics. This prompts the question whether rapport à soi fashions an ethical subject who is (...)
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    Vision and Encounter in Moral Thinking.Christopher Cordner - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley (eds.), Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 209-225.
    Iris Murdoch thinks that ‘the activity and imagery of vision is at the centre of human consciousness’, ever re-orienting us to ‘reflection, reverence, respect’ for reality. Murdoch believes that Buber’s emphasis on the ‘I-Thou’ relation conflicts with this morally re-orienting power of the visual. Buber thinks that his language of encounter and dialogue makes space for the moral challenge of the other, and for growth, movement, creative response in human life, in a way shouldered out by ‘visual metaphysics’. Murdoch’s privileging (...)
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    On the Probabilities of Conditionals, FRANK DÖRING.Christopher Cordner - 1994 - Philosophy 69 (269).
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    What Matters in Caring: Some Reflections on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters.Christopher Donald Cordner - 2019 - Sophia 58 (3):525-533.
    This essay is prompted by the recent publication of a volume of critical essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters, along with a third volume of On What Matters responding to those essays. Parfit and his interlocutors often end up either barely engaging with one another, or engaging on terms that are often questionable. As others have done, I question Parfit’s radical bifurcation of a merely ‘psychological’ sense of caring, of what it is for a thing or creature to matter, (...)
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  8. Jackson on weakness of will.Christopher Cordner - 1985 - Mind 94 (374):273-280.
    I begin with a resume ofJ ackson's position. I shall follow this with some counter- examples; and end with a diagnosis of why the problems with Jackson's account arise. In objecting to Jackson's account I am not presupposing the truth of one or other particular account of akrasia. What I am supposing is that unless we recognize some kind of conflict of mind as engaged at the time of action, we are not speaking of akrasia. I hive argued that Jackson, (...)
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  9. Two Conceptions of Love in Philosophical Thought.Christopher Cordner - 2011 - Sophia 50 (3):315-329.
    I distinguish, describe and explore two different conceptions of love that inform our lives. One conception found its classic philosophical articulation in Plato, the other its richest expressions in Christian thought. The latter has not had the same secure place in our philosophical traditon as the former. By trying to bring out what is distinctive in this second conception of love, centrally including its significance in revealing the fundamental value of human beings, I aim to show the importance of extending (...)
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    Cora Diamond and the Moral Imagination.Christopher Cordner & Andrew Gleeson - 2016 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 5 (1):55-77.
    Over several decades, Cora Diamond has articulated a distinctive way of thinking about ethics. Prompted by a recent critique of Diamond, we elucidate some of the main themes of her work, and reveal their power to reconfigure and deepen moral philosophy. In concluding, we suggest that Diamond’s moral philosophical practice can be seen as one plausible way of fleshing out what Wittgenstein might have meant by his dictum that “ethics is transcendental”.
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    Guilt, remorse and victims.Christopher Cordner - 2007 - Philosophical Investigations 30 (4):337–362.
    In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams describes the experience of guilt in terms of fear at the anger of an internalised other, who is a “victim or enforcer.” Williams says it is a merit of his account that it shows how our guilt turns us towards the victims of our wrongdoing. I argue that his account in fact misses the most important form of guilt's “concern with victims”– the experience of remorse. I consider, and reject, one way of trying to (...)
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    Ethical encounter: the depth of moral meaning.Christopher Cordner - 2002 - New York: Palgrave.
    This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence, and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.
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  13. Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning.Christopher Cordner - 2003 - Philosophical Quarterly 53 (213):624-626.
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    The Meaning of Graceful Movement.Christopher Cordner - 2003 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 30 (2):132-143.
  15. Gaita and Plato : goodness, love, and beauty.Christopher Cordner - 2011 - In Christopher Cordner & Raimond Gaita (eds.), Philosophy, Ethics, and a Common Humanity: Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita. Routledge.
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    Honour, Community, and Ethical Inwardness.Christopher Cordner - 1997 - Philosophy 72 (281):401 - 415.
    Daniel Putman thinks I am right to hold that for Aristotle a concern to appear before one's peers in a certain way is internal to virtue. He takes me to suppose that things are otherwise under a ‘modern concept of virtue’, and says that I am wrong about this. Putman rightly distinguishes between a desire to look good before one's peers which is a substitute for virtue, and a desire to look good to them because, acting virtuously, ‘we genuinely deserve (...)
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  17. An Analysis of Aesthetic Experience.Christopher Donald Cordner - 1982
     
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    Bernard Williams 1929–2003 moral philosophy brought down to earth.Christopher Cordner - 2003 - Sophia 42 (2):149-150.
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    Dialectical Activity, Ritual, and Value: A Critique of Talbot Brewer.Christopher Cordner - 2014 - Philosophical Investigations 39 (2):178-191.
    Talbot Brewer has argued that contemporary philosophy of action and ethics are hampered by a picture of human agency as essentially consisting in bringing about states of affairs – a “production-oriented” conception of action. From classical sources, centrally including Aristotle, Brewer retrieves a different picture – of human activity as fundamentally “dialectical”. Ritual activity, including a ritual dimension of many dialectical activities, affirms and deepens our human presence in and to the world, and to other human beings. I argue that (...)
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    Ethical, necessity and internal reasons.Christopher Cordner - 2001 - Philosophy 76 (4):541-560.
    Against moral philosophers' traditional preoccupation with ‘ought’ judgments, Bernard Williams has reminded us of the importance of locutions such as ‘I must’, ‘I have to’ and ‘I can't’. He develops an account of the ethical necessity and impossibility these locutions are able to mark. The account draws on his thesis that all reasons for action are ‘internal’. I sketch the account, and then try to show that it is insensitive to important aspects of how the concepts of ethical necessity and (...)
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    Guilt, Remorse and God: Response to Lynch and Dahanayake.Christopher Cordner - 2017 - Philosophical Investigations 41 (1):94-103.
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    Iris Murdoch, Philosopher: A Collection of Essays.Christopher Cordner - 2013 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1):142-143.
    This is a welcome volume. The many footnotes of praise for Iris Murdoch’s philosophical work were for many years not matched by actual discussion of it. This collection, long incubated and containing essays by many well-known figures with a continuing interest in Murdoch’s work, is one of several recent signs of this imbalance’s being righted. Anyone interested in Murdoch’s philosophical thinking—spilling over into ways it informs her novels—will find plenty to engage him here. A ninety-two page introduction by Justin Broackes (...)
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    Justice and Unconditional Valuing in Nietzsche's genealogy.Christopher D. Cordner - 2017 - Philosophical Forum 48 (1):49-67.
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  24. Life and death matters: Losing a sense of the value of human beings.Christopher Cordner - 2005 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 26 (3):207-226.
    The essay combines a specific and a more general theme. In attacking ‘the doctrine of the sanctity of human life’ Singer takes himself thereby to be opposing the conviction that human life has special value. I argue that this conviction goes deep in our lives in many ways that do not depend on what Singer identifies as central to that ‘doctrine’, and that his attack therefore misses its main target. I argue more generally that Singer’s own moral philosophy affords only (...)
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  25. Literature, Morality and the Individual in the Shadows of Postmodernism.Christopher Cordner - 1998 - Literature & Aesthetics 8:60-77.
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    No need to go! Workplace studies and the resources of the revised National Statement.Christopher Cordner & Colin Thomson - 2007 - Monash Bioethics Review 26 (3):S37-S48.
    In their article ‘Unintended consequences of human research ethics committees: au revoir workplace studies?’, Greg Bamber and Jennifer Sappey set out some real obstacles in the practices and attitudes of some Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs), to research in the social sciences and particularly in industrial sociology. They sheet home these attitudes and practices to the way in which various statements in the NHMRC’s National Statement [1999] are implemented, which they say is often ‘in conflict with an important stream of (...)
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    Obituary: Graeme Donald Marshall.Christopher Cordner & Patrick Hutchings - 2015 - Sophia 54 (3):403-404.
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    Philosophy, Ethics and a Common Humanity: Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita.Christopher Cordner (ed.) - 2011 - New York: Routledge.
    The work of Raimond Gaita, in books such as _Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception_, _A Common Humanity_ and _The Philosopher’s Dog_, has made an outstanding and controversial contribution to philosophy and to the wider culture. In this superb collection an international team of contributors explore issues across the wide range of Gaita’s thought, including the nature of good and evil, philosophy and biography, the unthinkable, Plato and ancient philosophy, Wittgenstein, the religious dimensions of Gaita’s work, aspects of the Holocaust, (...)
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  29. Remorse and Moral Identity.Christopher Cordner - 2008 - In Catriona Mackenzie & Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency. Routledge.
     
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    The Aristotelian Character of Schiller’s Ethical Ideal.Christopher Cordner - 1990 - International Studies in Philosophy 22 (1):21-36.
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    Three contemporary perspectives on moral philosophy.Christopher Cordner - 2006 - Philosophical Investigations 30 (1):65–84.
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    Giving Sense to Generosity-Ethics: A Philosophical Reading of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot.Dana Freibach-Heifetz & Christopher Cordner - 2008 - Philosophia 36 (4):575-591.
    This paper presents a philosophical reading of “The Idiot”, which perceives its main protagonist, Prince Myshkin, as a literary hero who chooses the path of generosity. The paper exposes Dostoevsky’s generosity-ethics against the background of Christian ethics, virtue ethics, and the Nietzschean notion of generosity; it further analyzes the problematic aspects of Myshkin’s version of generosity-ethics, and discusses several possible explanations of its catastrophic outcomes in the novel. The paper consists of three parts. The first part presents the rich and (...)
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    AndrewGleeson, A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). ix + 172, price £50.00 hb. [REVIEW]Christopher Cordner - 2013 - Philosophical Investigations 36 (3):275-279.
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    A Review of Heather Widdows’s The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch; Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, 182 + vii pp., ISBN: 0754636259, hb. [REVIEW]Christopher Cordner - 2007 - Sophia 46 (2):199-201.
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    Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, by Russell, Luke: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. vii + 236, £40. [REVIEW]Christopher Cordner - 2016 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (3):617-620.
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    Review of Megan Laverty, Iris Murdoch's Ethics: A Consideration of Her Romantic Vision[REVIEW]Christopher Cordner - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6).
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