Christopher W. Morris Explained

Christopher Warren Morris
Birth Date:	1949 6, df=yes
Nationality:	American
Institutions:	University of Maryland
Alma Mater:	University of Toronto

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]

His main research areas are moral, legal and political philosophy as well as practical rationality.^[3]

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).

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.

Selected bibliography

PhD thesis

• Book: Morris, Christopher W . Social relations, socialization and freedom: toward a social theory (Canadian theses on microfiche, no. 35270) . National Library of Canada . Ottawa, Canada . 1977 . OCLC number 15826837

Books

• Book: Morris, Christopher W . An essay on the modern state . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, England New York . 1998 . 9780521496254 . translated into Portuguese as - Book: Morris. Christopher. Um ensaio sobre o estado moderno. Brazil. 9788576290346. Sylmara Beletti (Translator). Portuguese. 2005.
• Book: Morris . Christopher W . Ripstein . Arthur . Practical rationality and preference : essays for David Gauthier . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, U.K. New York . 2001 . 9780521781848 .
• Book: Morris . Christopher W . The social contract theorists critical essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau . Rowman & Littlefield . Lanham, Maryland . 1999 . 9780585114033 .
• Book: Morris, Christopher W . Amartya Sen . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York . 2009 . 9780521618069 .
• Book: Morris, Christopher W . Questions of life and death: readings in practical ethics . Oxford University Press . New York . 2012 . 9780195156980 .
• Book: Morris . Christopher W . Frey . Raymond G . Violence, terrorism, and justice . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England New York . 1991 . 9780521401258 .

Journal articles

• Morris . Christopher W . Existential limits to the rectification of past wrongs . American Philosophy Quarterly . 21 . 2 . 175–182 . University of Illinois Press . April 1984 .
• Morris . Christopher W . The very idea of popular sovereignty: "we the people" reconsidered . Social Philosophy and Policy . 17 . 1 . 1–26 . 10.1017/S026505250000251X . Winter 2000 . 13859510 .
• Morris . Christopher W . State coercion and force . Social Philosophy and Policy . 29 . 1 . 28–49 . 10.1017/S0265052511000094 . January 2012 . 143472087 .

External links

• Profile: Christopher W. Morris Professor & Chair, University of Maryland

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christopher W. Morris. Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). 16 April 2014.
2. Web site: Department of Philosophy - Christopher W. Morris, Professor & Chair (CV). University of Maryland. 16 April 2014. 17 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190317233520/http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/morris. dead.
3. Table of contents . Contributors, Christopher W. Morris . Social Philosophy and Policy . 29 . 1 . xvii–xix . 10.1017/S0265052511000021 . January 2012 . 233358330 .