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Contact details

2C13, second floor, central corridor, Burns Building, 95 Albany Street
Tel +64 3 479 8729
Email andrew.moore@otago.ac.nz

Academic qualifications

1991: DPhil Oxford
1986: MA Canterbury

Research interests

My main research and teaching is in ethics. Most centrally, my research efforts go into trying to work out the best answer to the questions such as: ‘What is it for a life to be good for the one who lives it?’ and: ‘What does it take for an action to be right or wrong?’. My university study was initially at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch where I grew up. My doctoral study was at Oxford. In 1991, I began my philosophical work at the University of Otago.

Publications

Current and recent research

  • 'Objective well-being', under review.
  • 'Objectivism about animal well-being', under review.
  • 'Meta-theory of well-being', under review.
  • 'God-centred subjectivism about well-being', in draft.
  • 'Pleasure and well-being', in draft.
  • 'The meta-ethical autonomy of ethical theories', in draft.

Selected publications

  • A. Moore, 'Welfare', in Henk ten Have (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, Springer, 2016 (3 volumes).
  • A. Moore, 'Well-being', in Oxford Bibliographies On-Line, 2015 (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0284.xml).
  • A. Moore, A. Donnelly, 'The job of ethics committees', Journal of Medical Ethics, 2015 (doi:10.1136/medethics-2015-102688). A 'featured paper' published with four critical commentaries.
  • Moore, A., 'The buck-passing stops here', in J. Maclaurin (ed.), Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne, Dordrecht: Springer (2012).
  • Moore, A., 'New Zealand ethics committee matters', Research Ethics 7/4, 2011:132-135.
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee (A. Moore et. al.), Ethical Guidelines for Intervention Studies, Wellington: Ministry of Health, November 2009, pp. vi, 37.
  • Moore, A., "Ethical theory, completeness, and consistency", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 10/3, June 2007: 297-308.
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee, Getting Through Together: Ethical Values for a Pandemic, Wellington: Ministry of Health (2007).
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee, Ethical Guidelines for Observational Studies: Observational Research, Audits, and Related Activities, Wellington: Ministry of Health (2006).
  • Moore, A.,“PHARMAC decision-making about high-cost pharmaceuticals”, Appendix 2 no.10, in How should high cost medicines be funded?: Paper for Public Consultation, Pharmaceutical Management Agency: Wellington, December 2006.
  • Moore, A., “Postmortem Reproduction, Consent, and Policy”, in William Aiken and John Haldane (eds.), Philosophy and its Public Role, Exeter (UK) & Charlottesville (VA), Imprint Academic (2005): 105-121.
  • Moore, A., "Hedonism", in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/hedonism.html, April 2004.
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee, Review of the Current Processes for Ethical Review of Health and Disability Research (2003).
  • Moore, A., “Time and Well-being”, in H. Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Interface, Dordrecht, Kluwer (2003): 85-97.
  • Moore, A., "Research, Ethics Committees, and Legal Issues ", New Zealand Bioethics Journal 4/3 (2003): 8-15.
  • Moore, A., “Objective Human Goods”, in B. Hooker and R. Crisp (eds.), Well-being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin, Oxford, Clarendon Press (2000): 75-89.
  • Wilkinson, M. and Moore, A., "Inducement in research", Bioethics 11/5 (1997): 373-89.
  • Moore, A. and Mulgan, T., "The ethics of non-commercial IVF surrogacy", Health Care Analysis 5:1 (1997): 85-91.
  • Moore, A. and Crisp, R., "Welfarism in Moral Theory", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74:4 (1996): 598-613.

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching

Supervision interests

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Practical Ethics
  • Philosophy of Mind
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