Michael Tooley
Canadian-born American philosopher (born 1941)
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Michael Tooley (born 1941) is a Canadian-born American philosopher, now emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, best known for his contributions to metaphysics.
Michael Tooley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) Toronto, Canada |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, Princeton University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder |
Main interests | Metaphysics, applied ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | Growing block universe |
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]
Tooley was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.[8]
Works
- 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, 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.
- Causation: A Realist Approach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
- Abortion and Infanticide (Oxford, 1985 [1983])
