Marymount University

Faculty Member, Philosophy

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Michael Boylan

Michael Boylan (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. His recent book, Morality and Global Justice (2011) extends his worldview theory to cosmopolitan and international issues.  There is also an accompanying collection of original essays: The Morality and Global Justice Reader.  In 2010 he co-authored a book with Charles Johnson on the role of fiction in teaching philosophy: Philosophy--an innovative introduction, fictive narrative, primary texts, and responsive writing.  The Good, The True, and The Beautiful (2008) is a popular application of his worldview theory to many of the traditional problems in philosophy.  The Extinction of Desire (2007) is a bold experiment in narrative philosophy.  A Just Society (2004) is his manifesto on ethics and social/political philosophy and the most complete depiction of his normative worldview theory and is the subject of a recently published book of a dozen exploratory essays by scholars from seven countries: Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan’s A Just Society, (April, 2009).  He is also the author of Critical Inquiry (2009), Basic Ethics (2000, 2008, 2nd ed.) an essay on normative and applied ethics, Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier (2002, 2012 with Kevin E. Brown), Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice-Based Approach (2003, with James A. Donahue), and Public Health Policy and Ethics, (ed. 2004)/ International Public Health Policy and Ethics, (ed. 2008) along with 13 other books in philosophy and literature and over 100 articles.  He was a fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington DC policy think tank from 2007-2009 and is the general editor of a series of trade books on public philosophy with Basil Blackwell Publishers and another series of books with Prentice Hall as well as being the ethics editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.