Michael Tooley
Michael Tooley is an American philosopher, teaching at University of Colorado Boulder since 1992 where he has received a Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award in 1998 for his book "Time, Tense, and Causation" (Oxford), and was named a College Professor of Distinction in 2006.[1]
He is known for his research on philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, causality, personism, disposition, metaphysical naturalism,[2] phenomenal conservatism, moral philosophy, abortion, Irenaean theodicy and growing block universe and also his participation in Philosophy of Time Society and Closer to Truth series. He has debated William Lane Craig over the existence of God.[3][4]
Tooley has a classic paper on abortion titled "Abortion and Infanticide" which has been controversial.[5][6][7]
He received his B.A. from University of Toronto in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1968.[8]
Bibliography
- Abortion – Three Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) (This book, which is co-authored with Professor Alison Jaggar, Professor Philip E. Devine, and Associate Professor Emerita Celia Wolf-Devine, is in the Point/Counterpoint series edited by James Sterba.)
- Knowledge of God (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008) (This book, which is co-authored with Professor Alvin Plantinga, is in Blackwell's Great Debates in Philosophy series.)
- La natura del tempo, (Milano: McGraw-Hill, 1999).(This is an Italian translation of Time, Tense, and Causation, with a new preface and some revisions.)
- Metaphysics, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999) Edited, five volumes: Volume 1 - Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience; Volume 2 - The Nature of Time; Volume 3 - Properties; Volume 4 - Particulars, Actuality, and Identity; Volume 5 - Necessity and Possibility.
- Time, Tense, and Causation, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Causation, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Readings in Philosophy Series, 1993). Co-edited with Professor Ernest Sosa.
- Causation: A Realist Approach, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
References
- ↑ About Tooley
- ↑ Tooley, Michael (1977). "The Nature of Laws". Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 7 (4): 667–698.
- ↑ Transcript of Debate With Craig
- ↑ Video of Debate With Craig
- ↑ Tooley, M. "Abortion and Infanticide". Philosophy and Public Affairs 2:1 (Autumn 1972): 37-65, at 52-53.
- ↑ Tooley, M. 1984. "In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide". In Pojman and Beckwith 1998: 209-233.
- ↑ Don Marquis and Michael Tooley on abortion and personhood
- ↑ Tooley's CV
