Christine Swanton

Christine Swanton
Born1947 (age 78–79)
AwardsRhodes Scholarship (1970)[1]
Education
EducationUniversity of Oxford (PhD, 1970)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Main interestsethics

Christine Swanton is a New Zealand philosopher and Retired Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland.[2] She is known for her works on virtue ethics.

Books

  • Freedom: A Coherence Theory, Hackett, 1992
  • Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View, Oxford University Press, 2003[3][4][5]
  • The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche, Wiley Blackwell, 2015[6]
  • Target Centred Virtue Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2021[7][8]
  • Love and Its Place in Virtue, Oxford University Press, 2024[9]
  • Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation, edited with Tim Dare, Routledge, 2020

References

  1. ^ "List of Scholars". The Rhodes Project.
  2. ^ "Speakers". Nietzsche and Community.
  3. ^ Mason, Michelle (January 2005). "Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View". Ethics. 115 (2): 430–434. doi:10.1086/426353. ISSN 0014-1704.
  4. ^ Gardiner, Stephen M. (2005). "Review of Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View". Mind. 114 (453): 207–212. ISSN 0026-4423.
  5. ^ Harris, George. "Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View, Oxford". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  6. ^ Beam, Craig. "The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche". NDPR.
  7. ^ van Zyl, Liezl (1 April 2023). "Target Centred Virtue Ethics". Philosophical Review. 132 (2): 312–316. doi:10.1215/00318108-10294500. ISSN 0031-8108.
  8. ^ Miller, Christian B. "Target Centred Virtue Ethics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  9. ^ Miller, Christian B (23 October 2025). "Love and Its Place in Virtue , by Christine Swanton". Mind. doi:10.1093/mind/fzaf031. ISSN 0026-4423.