Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (PhD, PhD) is a professor of ethics at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, DK). Her theoretical research focuses on Wittgensteinian ethics, contextual ethics and virtue ethics and their application in health ethics and professional ethics. She also works with methodological issues in moral philosophy on the use of empirical data in ethics and the status and role of ethical theories in Moral Philosophy and Moral Life (OUP 2020).
Christensen heads the interdisciplinary Center for Philosophy of Health and Ethics. She has extensive experience in research management and is currently co-PI at STEMBRACE (SDU/OUH), a centre of excellence in stem cell research, and contributes to a number of other interdisciplinary projects in health ethics. Christensen has held a number of academic positions of trust, including chair of the Research Council for Culture and Communication (Independent Research Fund Denmark) and president of The Nordic Wittgenstein Society. She is currently working on a monograph on public debates on individual moral responsibility.
In the current project "In a divided time: Polarisation in Denmark and the Nordic countries", she is investigating how moral language influences the dynamics of polarisation and how the concept of 'moral fundamentalism' can contribute to understanding such dynamics. In addition, she participates in a study of the method Philosophical Dialogue as a tool for creating a background for conversation in polarised debates.
