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 Dr Damian Cox


BA(hons) (ANU); PhD (Melbourne)

Research interests
Realism and antirealism. Theories of truth. Ethics; virtue theory and value theory.

Current research projects
The moral and philosophical psychological character of integrity. Critiques of utilitarianism. Realism and antirealism in the work of Putnam and Goodman.

Selected recent publications
Integrity and the Fragile Self (with Marguerite La Caze and Michael Levine). Aldershot: Ashgate 2003.
"Goodman and Putnam on the Making of Worlds" Erkenntnis Vol. 58, No. 1, 2003
"Truth, Value and Consolation" The Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 36, No. 4, 2002
"Realism and World-Making", translated into Polish by Piotr Czarnecki in Pragmatyzm i Filozofia Hilarego Putnama (Pragmatism and philosophy of Hilary Putnam), Torun: Nicholas Copernicus University Press, 2001.
"Realism and Epistemic Theories of Truth", Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 39, No. 4, 2001.
"Integrity and Politics" Professional Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001.
"Scepticism and the Interpreter", Philosophical Papers, 2000, No. 2.
See Full List of Publications.