Michael Tooley (born 1941) is an American
philosopher, now emeritus at the
University of Colorado, Boulder
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, best known for his contributions to
metaphysics
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.
Education and career
He has a BA from the
University of Toronto
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and earned his Ph.D. in
philosophy at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
in 1968. He taught at
Stanford University and the
Australian National University
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and since 1992 at the
University of Colorado Boulder
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.
Philosophical work
Tooley has worked on
philosophy of science
Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ult ...
,
philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning ph ...
,
causality and
metaphysical naturalism, and has debated the existence of God with
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. He is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist ...
. His early paper "Abortion and Infanticide", arguing that there is no moral difference between them and that both are permissible, has been controversial.
Don Marquis and Michael Tooley on abortion and personhood
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See also
* Growing block universe
Bibliography
* ''The Problem of Evil'' (''Elements in the Philosophy of Religion'') (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
* ''Abortion – Three Perspectives'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
* ''Knowledge of God'' (with Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.
From 1963 to 198 ...
, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
* ''Metaphysics'' (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999). In 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 Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa (born June 17, 1940) is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. Since 2007 he has been Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, but he spent most of his career at Brown University.
Educa ...
.
* ''Causation: A Realist Approach'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
* ''Abortion and Infanticide'' (Oxford, 1985 983
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Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – Diet of Verona: Emperor Otto II (the Red) declares war against the Byza ...
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century American philosophers
20th-century American philosophers
Philosophers of science
Metaphysicians
Philosophy academics
Princeton University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Moral philosophers
Analytic philosophers
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Western Australia faculty
Australian National University faculty
American atheists
1941 births
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