Faculty Research Projects

Philosophers at Marymount are scholar-teachers in environmental ethics, cyberethics, bioethics, the philosophy of human rights, philosophical psychology, the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience, and the history of philosophy. Here are some recent books and articles:

Boylan, Michael. Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can Act As Philosophy. Routledge, 2019.

Corrigan, Daniel. “What’s So Good About Enviromental Human Rights? Constitutional vs International Environmental Rights” in Environmental Human Rights: A Political Theory Perspective, ed. Oksanen et al. Routledge, 2017.

Sachs, Carl. “In Defense of Picturing: Sellars’s Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Neuroscience“. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2019.

On going and in-progress works by Dr. Michael Boylan:

Single author:

A Select History and Philosophy of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2024)

Collected Poems (Washington, D.C.: PWI Books, forthcoming, 2022).

The Psalms: A Modern Rendering (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming, 2022)

Basic Ethics. 3rd edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2021).

The Process of Argument: An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2020)—3rd edition.

The Long Fall of the Ball from the Wall (Washington, D.C.: PWI Books, 2020) (philosophical novel)

Edited books:

Environmental Ethics 3 rd ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming February, 2022)

International Public Health Policy and Ethics, 2nd ed. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, forthcoming 2023)

The Philosophy of A.W.H. Adkins: “Virtue” and “Goodness” in Ancient Greece (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2022)

Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (with Wanda Teays) (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming, 2022)

Ethical Public Health Policy within Pandemics (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, forthcoming, 2022)

Essays (book chapters):

“Justification in Ethics: ‘Bottom-up’ versus ‘Top-Down’ Approaches” in Michael Boylan, ed. The Philosophy of A.W.H. Adkins: “Virtue” and “Goodness” in Ancient Greece (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2022)

“Pandemics and Public Health: A Select History” in Michael Boylan, ed. Ethical Public Health Policy During Contagious/Infectious Disease Pandemics (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022).

“Reflections on Reshaping Philosophy and the Emergence of Un-Ordered Pairs” in Wanda Teays, ed. Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022).

“A Reply to My Colleagues” in Wanda Teays, ed. Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022)

“Teaching Georgia” in Wanda Teays, ed. Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022)

“Reflections on Reshaping Philosophy and the Emergence of Un-Ordered Pairs,” in Wanda Teays, ed. Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022).

“Ethical Reasoning” in Michael Boylan and Wanda Teays, eds. Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

“Nature as a Background Condition” in Michael Boylan and Wanda Teays, eds. Ethics in the AI, Techno, and Information Age (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

“What is Nature and Why Should We Care?” in Michael Boylan, ed. Environmental Ethics 3rd ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).

“The Use of Adjuncts in U.S. Colleges and Universities” in Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln, eds. Cracks in the Ivory Tower: University Ethics. (Lanham, MD and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).

“The Abortion Debate in the 21st Century” in Wanda Teays, ed. Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives (Lanham, MD and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020): 190-202.

“Using Poetry to Teach Ethics” Journal of Aesthetic Education 53.3 (Fall, 2019): 14-25.