AProf Liezl van Zyl
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Qualifications: BA(Hons,) MA, DPhil Stellenbosch
Personal Website: https://waikato.academia.edu/LiezlvanZyl
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Moral Philosophy (virtue ethics, right action, action guidance, moral luck, the trolley problem).
Environmental virtue ethics
Bioethics (surrogacy, abortion, euthanasia, suicide).
Recent Publications
Van Zyl, L. (2022). Wonder and environmental wirtue. In G. Pettigrove, & C. Swanton (Eds.), Neglected Virtues. New York: Routledge.
Van Zyl, L. (2021). Nussbaum, Martha Craven (1947–). In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DD3605-1
Walker, R., & Van Zyl, L. (2020). Surrogacy and the law: three perspectives. New Zealand Family Law Journal, 10, 9-16. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13640
Walker, R., & van Zyl, L. (2020). Fear and uncertainty: The surrogacy triad’s experience of social workers’ role ambiguity. The British Journal of Social Work. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcaa105 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13891
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Keywords
Philosophy
Normative theory; virtue ethics; virtue theory; applied ethics; political philosophy; aesthetics.