Michael Tooley | |
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Born | 1941 |
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.
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]
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]