Michael Boylan

Fellow

Michael Boylan received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is professor of philosophy and chair at Marymount University. His most recent book, The Extinction of Desire (April, 2007), is a bold experiment in narrative philosophy.  A Just Society (2004) is his manifesto on ethics and social/political philosophy. It is the most complete depiction of his normative worldview theory and is the subject of a forthcoming book of exploratory essays by scholars from six countries. He is also the author of “Basic Ethics” (2000), an essay on normative and applied ethics, Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier (2002, 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) along with 13 other books in philosophy and literature and over 90 articles. He 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 the ethics editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Presently, Boylan is working on an extension of his worldview theory to some of the major problems in philosophy entitled, The Good, The True, and The Beautiful, which is under contract and scheduled for publication in June, 2008 (U.K.) and September, 2008 (U.S.).