Michael Tooley
Michael Tooley is an American philosopher at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 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]
He 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 paper "Abortion and Infanticide" has been controversial.[6][7][8]
Bibliography
- Abortion – Three Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Knowledge of God (with Alvin Plantinga, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008)
- 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 Ernest Sosa.
- Causation: A Realist Approach, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
References
- ↑ http://spot.colorado.edu/~tooley/CurriculumVitae.html
- ↑ 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
External links
- "Michael Tooley". Philosophy. University of Colorado Boulder.
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