Staff

Dr Christopher Cowie

Associate Professor/REF Impact Officer/Acting Director of Research/Director of UG & PG Student Experience/Placement Officer in the Department of Philosophy

I work in Moral Philosophy. For details of my research and teaching see my personal website.

Research Groups

Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

Publications

Authored book

Cowie, Christopher (2019). Morality and Epistemic Judgement: The Argument from Analogy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cowie, Christopher (2019). The Repugnant Conclusion: A Philosophical Inquiry. Routledge.

Chapter in book

Cowie, Christopher (Published). The Similarity Hypothesis in Metaethics. In Methodology and Moral Philosophy. Suikkanen, Jussi & Kauppinen, Antti Routledge. 127-147.
Cowie, Christopher & Rowland, Richard (2020). Introduction. In Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics. London: Routledge. 1-16.
Cowie, Christopher. (2019). Contemporary Work on Debunking Arguments in Ethics and Mathematics. In Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics. Routledge.
Cowie, Christopher & Greenberg, Alexander (2018). Constitutivism about Epistemic Normativity. In Metaepistemology: Realism and Anti-Realism. Kyriacou, Christos & McKenna, Robin Palgrave Macmillan. 173-196.

Edited book

Christopher Cowie & Richard Rowland (2019). Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics. Routledge.

Journal Article

Cowie, Christopher (2020). A new argument for moral error theory. Noûs
Cowie, Christopher (2020). Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?. Philosophical Studies 177(6): 1685-1702.
Cowie, Christopher (2018). Companions in Guilt Arguments. Philosophy Compass 13(11): e12528.
Schleicher, Judith, Schaafsma, Marije, Burgess, Neil D., Sandbrook, Chris, Danks, Fiona, Cowie, Chris & Vira, Bhaskar (2018). Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing. Sustainable Development 26(1): 83-98.
Cowie, Christopher (2017). Does the repugnant conclusion have any probative force?. Philosophical Studies 174(12): 3021-3039.
Cowie, Christopher (2016). Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94(1): 115-130.
Greenberg, Alexander & Cowie, Christopher (2016). Is the Norm on Belief Evaluative? A Response to McHugh. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
Cowie, Christopher (2016). Revisionist Responses to the Amoralism Objection: A Reply to Julia Markovits. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19(3): 711.
Cowie, Christopher (2015). Conservatism in Metaethics: A Case Study. Metaphilosophy 46(4-5): 605-619.
Cowie, Christopher (2014). A New Explanatory Challenge for Nonnaturalists. Res Philosophica 91(4): 661-679.
Cowie, Christopher (2014). Epistemic Disagreement and Practical Disagreement. Erkenntnis 79(1): 191-209.
Cowie, Christopher (2014). In defence of instrumentalism about epistemic normativity. Synthese 191(16): 4003-4017.
Cowie, C. (2014). Why Companions in Guilt Arguments Won't Work. The Philosophical Quarterly 64(256): 407-422.