Department of Philosophy
Queen's UniversityChristine Overall
Professor, Queen's University Research Chair
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), FRSC
Specialization: Feminist Theory; Applied Ethics including Bioethics; Philosophy of Religion
Office: Watson Hall
Office Hours: N/A
Phone: (613) 533.6000 ext. 77039
E-mail: cdo@queensu.ca
Website: http://post.queensu.ca/~cdo/
Christine Overall's teaching, research and publications are in the areas of feminist philosophy, applied ethics (including bioethics), and philosophy of religion. She is the editor of three books and the author of six. Her book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry (University of California Press, 2003), won both the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book Prize and the Royal Society of Canada’s Abbyann Lynch Medal in Bioethics. Her next book, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate, will be published by MIT Press in 2012. She is currently on leave in Japan, where she holds the position of Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University.