James J. Cordeiro

James J. Cordeiro, PhD, is a professor at SUNY Brockport, where he has received SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in both Teaching and Scholarship. He earned a B.Sc in Microbiology and Chemistry from the University of Bombay (St. Xavier’s College), an MBA from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Management from University at Buffalo.

He is completing an MSt in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College) with a thesis on ectogestation and reproductive choices.

His corpus of three dozen articles and two edited books in business ethics, sustainability, and corporate governance has garnered over 3,900 citations. A recipient of ESRC (UK- Cardiff University) and Erasmus Mundus fellowships (Central European Uinversity, Lund University), he has been a visiting scholar at Aston University, Humboldt University Berlin and an invited scholar at University of Padova and Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay).

Cordeiro is interested in studying the role of various stakeholders in ethical deployment of artificial gestational technologies, procreative beneficence, corporate involvement with nascent biotechnologies, and the relationship between the ethics of rescue and corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts.

Faculty profile.

James Cordeiro.

James Cordeiro

Working Groups

  • Creation and Enhancement
  • Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics

Selected Publications

  • How ectogestation can impact the  gestational versus moral parenthood debate. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024.
  • Proceeding with care, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024. (here) 
  • Relational Autonomy, the Ethics of Responsibility, and Supported Decision-Making for Patients with Diminished Capacity, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, 2023,14(3): 244-246. (here)
  • On the permissibiility of elective ectogestation. American Journal of Bioethics. 2023, 23 (5), 116-118