Dr. Craig Taylor , B.Eng., B.A., M.A. (Melb.) Ph.D. (Lond.)

Dr Craig Taylor
Lecturer, Head of Department
The Flinders University of South Australia
Sturt Rd., Bedford Park
Adelaide, SA 5042
Australia

Ph: (08)8 201 3962
Fax: (08)8 201 2784
Email: Craig.Taylor@flinders.edu.au

Craig joined the department in 2006, having previously held lecturing positions at the University of Stirling, Louisiana State University and a number of universities in Australia. Craig’s main field of teaching and research expertise is ethics and applied ethics and he has published a book, entitled Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), and numerous articles in this field. Click here for a complete list of Craig’s publications.

Craig is currently the Philosophy Honours and BJUSS coordinator and his teaching at Flinders for 2006 includes:

PHIL2130 Bioethics (Sem.1)
PHIL1001 What is Philosophy? (Sem.2)
JUSS3000 Honours Seminar (Sem.2)

Publications

Books

• Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
• Moralism: A Study of A Vice forthcoming 2011 with Acumen.

Refereed Articles

• ‘Art and Moralism’, Philosophy, 84(2009).
• ‘Aristotle on Perfect Friendship’, Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of Greek Studies Flinders University (in press).
• ‘Winch on Moral Dilemmas and Moral Modality’, Inquiry 49(2006), pp.148-57.
• ‘Moralism and Morally Accountable Beings’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 22(2005), pp. 151-8. Reprinted in Coady, C.A.J (ed.) What’s Wrong with Moralism? (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
• ‘Moral Cognitivism and Character’, Philosophical Investigations, 28(2005), pp. 253-72.
• ‘The Journalist as Moralist’, Contemporary Issues in Governance: Proceedings of the Annual GovNet Conference (2005).
• ‘Morality and the Role-Differentiated Behaviour of Lawyers’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics,6(2004), pp. 36-46.
• ‘Moral Incapacity and Huckleberry Finn’, Ratio,14(2001), pp. 56-67.
• ‘Sympathy’, The Journal of Ethics, 3(1999), pp. 73-87.
• ‘Moral Incapacity’, Philosophy, 70(1995), pp. 273-285.

Invited Articles

• ‘Sympathy’ International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Edition, William A Darity (ed.), (2007).
• ‘Introduction: Global Justice and Global Prosperity’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 8:1(2006), pp. 1-5.

Edited Works

• (with Tom Campbell) ‘Global Justice and Global Prosperity’. Special edition of Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 8:1(2006).

Reviews

• ‘Questions for those who protest too much: The Henson Case, by David Marr’, Australian Literary Review Nov. 2008.
• ‘Review: Facts, Values, and Morality, by Richard Brandt’, in Philosophical Books (1997).