Christopher W. Morris

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).

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.

• {{cite book | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = Social relations, socialization and freedom: toward a social theory (Canadian theses on microfiche, no. 35270) | publisher = National Library of Canada | location = Ottawa, Canada | year = 1977 }} [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15826837 OCLC number 15826837]

• {{cite book | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = An essay on the modern state | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, England New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780521496254 }} translated into Portuguese as - {{cite book|last1=Morris|first1=Christopher|title=Um ensaio sobre o estado moderno| location=Brazil| isbn=9788576290346| author2= Sylmara Beletti (Translator)|language=Portuguese|year=2005}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Morris | first1 = Christopher W | last2 = Ripstein | first2 = Arthur | title = Practical rationality and preference : essays for David Gauthier | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, U.K. New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780521781848 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Morris | first1 = Christopher W | title = The social contract theorists critical essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780585114033 }}
• {{cite book | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = Amartya Sen | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521618069 }}
• {{cite book | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = Questions of life and death: readings in practical ethics | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780195156980 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Morris | first1 = Christopher W | last2 = Frey | first2 = Raymond G | title = Violence, terrorism, and justice | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780521401258 }}

• {{Citation | last = Morris | first = Christopher | contribution = A contractarian account of moral justification | editor-last1 = Sinnott-Armstrong | editor-first1 = Walter | editor-last2 = Timmons | editor-first2 = Mark | title = Moral knowledge? new readings in moral epistemology | pages = 215–242 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780195089899 }}
• {{Citation | last = Morris | first = Christopher | contribution = The trouble with justice | editor-last = Bloomfield | editor-first = Paul | title = Morality and self-interest | pages = 15–30 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780195305852 }}
• {{Citation | last = Morris | first = Christopher | contribution = State legitimacy and social order | editor-last = Kühnelt | editor-first = Jörg | title = Political legitimization without morality | pages = 15–32 | publisher = Springer | location = Dordrecht London | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781402085758 }}
• {{Citation | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | contribution = The idea of moral standing | editor-last1 = Beauchamp | editor-first1 = Tom | editor-last2 = Frey | editor-first2 = Raymond G | title = The Oxford handbook of animal ethics | pages = [https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbookof0000unse_s6g5/page/255 255–275] | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780195371963 | url = https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbookof0000unse_s6g5/page/255 }}

• {{Cite journal | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = Existential limits to the rectification of past wrongs | journal = American Philosophy Quarterly | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 175–182 | publisher = University of Illinois Press | date = April 1984 | url = http://apq.press.illinois.edu/apqindex.html }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = The very idea of popular sovereignty: "we the people" reconsidered | journal = Social Philosophy and Policy | volume = 17 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–26 | doi = 10.1017/S026505250000251X | date = Winter 2000 | s2cid = 13859510 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Morris | first = Christopher W | title = State coercion and force | journal = Social Philosophy and Policy | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–49 | doi = 10.1017/S0265052511000094 | date = January 2012 | s2cid = 143472087 }}

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