Catriona Mackenzie
BA ANU, PhD ANU
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Catriona has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy (ANU, 1983) and a PhD in Philosophy (ANU, 1992). She was Tutor and Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University from 1988-89 and has been on staff at Macquarie since 1990. She was Head of Department from 1998-2001.
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Awards and Prizes
- Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics 2007
- Macquarie Univerisity Outstanding Teacher Award 1998
Teaching
Catriona currently teaches or has taught the following units:
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PHIL132 Philosophy, Morality and Society
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PHIL242 Practical Ethics
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PHIL264/364 Business and Professional Ethics
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PHIL340 History of Ethics
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PHIL352 Philosophical Problems of Gender
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PHIL357 Theories of Justice
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PHIL382 Agency and the Self.
Honours Seminars: Metaphor and Philosophy, Agency and the Self, Emotions in Moral Theory, Multicultural and Global Justice
Honours Supervision: 20 honours theses on a range of topics in moral philosophy, applied ethics, feminist philosophy
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Laura Coffey, 'Intentional Theories of Emotion: Their Scope and Plausibility', MA (Hons), 2005
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Anthony McGann, 'Affectivity in Emotion', Masters by Research, 2005
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Sharon Gaby, 'The Ethical Pregnancy: Reproductive Choice in the Context of Prenatal Testing', PhD, 2003
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Martin Kelly, '"Trust me, I'm a Doctor": The Role and Function of Trust in Clinical Practice', PhD 2003, Awarded VC's Commendation
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Kim Atkins, 'A Tensive Theory of Selfhood: Narrative and the Embodied Perspective', PhD, 1998, Awarded Dean's Commendation
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Kandy White, 'Nursing: Vocation or Profession?', MA (Hons), 1998
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Andy Hill, MPhil candidate, Topic: Modern Psychiatry and Moral Responsibility
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Jacqui Poltera, PhD candidate, Topic: Practical and Moral Identity
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John Quilter, PhD candidate, Topic: Moral Luck
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Mary Walker, PhD candidate, Topic: Personal Identity
- Jonathan McGuire, PhD candidate, Topic: Moral Cognition (Co-supervisor)
Publications
Edited Books
Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, co-edited with Kim Atkins, (Routledge: New York & London, 2008).
Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). 314pp. (co-edited with Natalie Stoljar)
Current Book Projects
Imagining Oneself Otherwise: Agency, Identity and Practical Reflection (book manuscript)
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters
'Personal Identity, Narrative Integration and Embodiment' in Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, Susan Sherwin (eds.) Embodiment and Agency, (Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, forthcoming).
'Conceptions of Autonomy and Conceptions of the Body in Bioethics', in Jackie Leach-Scully, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven & Petya Fitzpatrick (eds.) Feminist Bioethics: At the Centre, On the Margins, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
'Introduction: Practical Identity and Narrative Agency' in Mackenzie, C. & Atkins, K. (eds) Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, (Routledge: New York & London, 2008), pp. 1-28
'Imagination, Identity and Self-transformation' in Mackenzie, C. & Atkins, K. (eds) Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, (Routledge: New York & London, 2008), pp. 121-145
'Moral Imagination, Disability and Embodiment', co-authored with Jackie Leach Scully, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24 (4), 2007: 335-351
'Bare Personhood? Velleman on Selfhood' (Published with a reply by J. David Velleman), Philosophical Explorations 10 (3), 2007: 263-281
'"Beyond Do No Harm: The Challenge of Constructing Ethical Relationships in Refugee Research', (Catriona Mackenzie, Christopher McDowell, Eileen Pittaway), Journal of Refugee Studies, 20 (2), 2007: 299-319
'Relational Autonomy, Sexual Justice and Cultural Pluralism', in Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Avigail Eisenberg (eds.) Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice, Routlege (New York & London), 2007, pp. 103-121
'Imagining Other Lives', Philosophical Papers, 35 (1), November 2006, pp. 293-325. Special Issue: Politics and the Imagination
'Placing Ethics in the Centre: Negotiating New Spaces for Ethical Research in Conflict Situations', (Anthony Zwi, Natalie Grove, Catriona Mackenzie, Eileen Pittaway, Deborah Zion, Derrick Silove, Daniel Tarantola), Global Public Health 1(3), October 2006, pp. 264-277
'Critical Reflection, Self Knowledge and the Emotions', Philosophical Explorations 5 (3), October, 2002, pp. 186-206. Special Issue: Autonomy. Problems and Limits, edited by Beate Roessler.
'On Bodily Autonomy', in S.K. Toombs (ed.) Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine, Philosophy and Medicine Series, vol. 68, (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 2001), pp. 417-439.
'Imagining Oneself Otherwise', in Mackenzie & Stoljar (eds.) Relational Autonomy, (OUP, 2000) pp. 124-150.
Reprinted in:
Kim Atkins (ed.) Self and Subjectivity: A Reader with Commentary, (Blackwell, Oxford, 2004)
'Introduction: Refiguring Autonomy', in Mackenzie & Stoljar (eds.) Relational Autonomy, (OUP, 2000), pp. 3-31 (with Natalie Stoljar)
'A Certain Lack of Symmetry: Beauvoir on Autonomous Agency and Women's Embodiment' in Ruth Evans (ed.) Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: New Interdisciplinary Essays, (Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 122-158.
'Reason and Sensibility: The Ideal of Women's Self-Governance in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft', Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 8, no. 4, Fall 1993, pp. 35-55.
- Reprinted in Linda Lopez McAlister (ed) Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 181-203
'Abortion and Embodiment', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (2) June, 1992, pp. 136-155
Reprinted in:
- Belinda Bennett (ed.) Abortion, a volume in the series The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and the Law, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004)
- Susan Sherwin & Barbara Parish (eds.) Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002)
- Susan Dwyer & Joel Feinberg (eds.) The Problem of Abortion, Third Edition (Wadsworth, 1997)
- D. Michelfelder & W. Wilcox (eds.) Applied Ethics in American Society, (Harcourt Brace, 1997)
- Paul Komesaroff (ed.) Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body, (Durham & London: Duke University Press; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995)
'Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy and/or the Female Body', in Elizabeth Gross & Carole Pateman (eds.) Feminist Challenges, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986), pp. 144-156
Current Research Grants
- 'Autonomy and Identity: A Relational Theory', ARC Discovery Grant, 2006-7
- 'From the Neuron to the Self: Human Nature and the New Cognitive Neurosciences', Macquarie University Research Innovation
Grant 2008-2010 (CI: John Sutton; Project Team: Amanda Barnier, Tim
Bayne, Max Coltheart, Stephen Crain, Robyn Langdon, Catriona Mackenzie, Peter Menzies)
Current research
Catriona's current research interests include theories of autonomy, agency and practical deliberation, conceptions of selfhood, identity and embodiment, philosophy of the emotions, and theories of imagination. She is also interested in conceptions of autonomy, choice and embodiment in bioethics.
Administrative responsibilities
Current
- Chair, Macquarie University Ethics Framework Committee
- Staff Consultative Group
- Divisional Research Committee
Previous
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Chair, Macquarie University Ethics Review Committee (Human Research), 2002-2005
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Head of Department, 1998-2001, 1995
- Acting Head of Department, April-July 2007
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Other University Administrative Roles: Academic Senate, Senior Lecturer Promotions Committee, Teaching Awards Committee, Enterprise Bargaining Team (1997)
Contact details
Location: Building W6A Room 726
Phone: (61 2) 9850 8865
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: cmackenzie@scmp.mq.edu.au
Office hours: Thur 3-5