Christopher added themselves to the department POLSIS.
Christopher started following the work of Caroline Hughes, Murdoch University, Asia Research Centre.
Christopher started following the work of Janosch Prinz, The University of Sheffield, Politics.
Faculty Member, POLSIS
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory; British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (2010-11)
College of Social Sciences
About
Christopher J. Finlay is Senior Lecturer in political theory. He teaches and writes on just war theory, on terrorism and the ethics of political violence, and on the history of political thought.
The central focus of Christopher’s current research is on the ethical and theoretical dimensions of the concept of terrorism and its relationship with theories of revolution, armed resistance and war. This work addresses contemporary debates in just war theory and applied ethics, particularly on violence by non-state groups, military intervention, and interrogational torture. He also writes on rhetorical approaches to debates about political violence and on its aesthetic dimensions.
Christopher’s previous work explored the social contexts and concerns of moral and political philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. His book, Hume’s Social Philosophy (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), completed a project funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences on Possessive Individualism and the Social Thought of the Scottish Enlightenment. He has also written on the political thought of Adam Ferguson and on education and moral philosophy in the Enlightenment.
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