Michael Tooley

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Michael Tooley
Born1941
Alma mater Princeton University
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Main interests
Metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion

Michael Tooley (born 1941) is an American philosopher, now emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, best known for his contributions to metaphysics.

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Education and career

He has a BA from the University of Toronto and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University in 1968. [1] He taught at Stanford University and the Australian National University and since 1992 at the University of Colorado Boulder. [2]

Philosophical work

Tooley has worked on philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, causality and metaphysical naturalism, [3] and has debated the existence of God with William Lane Craig. [4] [5] His early paper "Abortion and Infanticide", arguing that there is no moral difference between them and that both are permissible, has been controversial. [6] [7] [8]

Tooley was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992. [9]

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References

  1. "Exercise1.html". spot.colorado.edu. Archived from the original on September 20, 2000.
  2. About Tooley Archived 2013-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Tooley, Michael (1977). "The Nature of Laws". Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 7 (4): 667–698.
  4. Transcript of Debate With Craig
  5. Video of Debate With Craig
  6. Tooley, M. "Abortion and Infanticide". Philosophy and Public Affairs 2:1 (Autumn 1972): 37-65, at 52-53.
  7. Tooley, M. 1984. "In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide". In Pojman and Beckwith 1998: 209-233.
  8. Don Marquis and Michael Tooley on abortion and personhood
  9. "Fellow Profile: Michael Tooley". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved April 29, 2024.