Dr Tony MILLIGAN

Dr Tony MILLIGAN The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Teaching Fellow work +44 (0)1224 273192 pref t.milligan@abdn.ac.uk pref Old Brewery OBF09

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Web Links

Academia.edu page: http://aberdeen.academia.edu/TonyMilligan

Amazon page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tony-Milligan/e/B003E0MOYS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

Philosophical Papers page: http://philpapers.org/s/Tony%20Milligan

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Biography

 

I studied as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling and then, following something of a gap while I went off and had my adventures, as a postgraduate at the University of Glasgow. My doctoral work was on Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy and I've been described as someone who writes on continental topics (love, death, belonging and the otherness of animals) in an analytic style. This strikes me as not a bad description. I'm certainly interested in tradition (the legacy of religious modes of thought) and modernity (pushing ethics into new areas). I've taught philosophy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Hull and (back again at) Aberdeen, where I currently hold the positions of Teaching Fellow with the Philosophy Department and Lecturer with the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

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Research Interests

Primarily, I work on normative and applied ethics with a specialist interest in animals and the significance of our humanity.

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Current Research

I'm currently working on a volume on an book about space ethics for McFarland (due for delivery in October 2013) and organizing a workshop on 'Space Ethics and Policy' to be held at Aberdeen in August 2013 with (all going well) select papers to appear in an issue of Space Policy. Simultaneously, I'm working on a 'Religion and Emotion' chapter for the new edition of the Blackwell Companion to Religion and on a popular volume on Eastern Philosophy.

Articles currently under submission include a paper on attitudes towards animals in analytic philosophy of love, a paper on animal rescue as civil disobedience and a paper on Iris Murdoch's account of love. Papers nearing submission include a further cluster on Iris Murdoch, a paper on self-immolation as civil disobedience and a paper looking at abortion and the problematic 'throwing away' metaphor. (Here's a clue, I think the metaphor is misleading but its use is philosophically interesting.) 

My most recent papers are 'The Politicization of Animal Love' delivered at the Cosmopolitan Animals event in London October 2012 and 'Love in Dark Times: Iris Murdoch on Loss and Void', delivered at the 53rd Annual Christian Philosophy Conference held at St John's Seminary in Wonersh, January 2013. My Next paper will be on 'Civility and Politicized Love in Gandhi' at the Spalding Symposium on Eastern Religions down at Merton College, Oxford, in April.

 

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Collaborations

Co-operating with colleagues from Fribourg (Suisse) and Pardubice (Czechia) to put together an edited volume on Love's Objects with contributors mainly from accross Europe and the US. This is tied-in to a workshop which is due to be held at Pardubice in July.

Co-operating with colleagues from Manchester and Fort Hare (SA) to put together this year's MANCEPT workshop on 'The Political Turn in Animal Rights/Liberation'.

 

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Teaching Responsibilities

Course co-ordination, second term 2012-13:

PH352P Metaethics

PH352F Independent Study Unit

PH2520 History of Philosophy (Modern)

 

Course Team, second term 2012-13:

ZO4805 Bioethics

SX1501 Humans and Other Animals

HC1524 Key Works for European Civilisation

PH1521 Knowledge and Mind

PH402D Philosophy Honours Dissertation

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Milligan, T. 'Love in Dark Times: Iris Murdoch on Loss and the Void'. Religious Studies.
• Milligan, T. (in press). 'The Duplication of Love's Reasons'. Philosophical Explorations, vol 16, no. 3.
• Milligan, T. (in press). 'Valuing Love and Valuing the Self'. Convivium, Revista de Filosofia, vol 2, no. 25.
• Milligan, T. (2012). 'Iris Murdoch and the Borders of Analytic Philosophy'. Ratio, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 164-176.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00529.x
• Milligan, T. (2011). 'The Wrongness of Sex with Animals'. Public Affairs Quarterly, vol 25, no. 3, pp. 241-255.
• Milligan, T. (2011). 'Property Rights and the Duty to Extend Human Life'. Space Policy, vol 27, no. 4, pp. 190-193.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2011.07.004
  [Online] AURA: Space_property_and_duty.pdf
• Milligan, T. (2010). 'Exile from Perfection in Iris Murdoch's Philosophical Texts'. The Heythrop Journal, vol 51, no. 1, pp. 22-33.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00536.x
• Milligan, T. (2009). 'Dependent Companions'. Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol 26, no. 4, pp. 402-413.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00460.x
• Milligan, T. (2008). 'False emotions'. Philosophy, vol 83, no. 2, pp. 213-230.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0031819108000478
• Milligan, T. (2007). 'Whimsical Desires'. Ratio, vol 20, no. 3, pp. 308-319.
• Milligan, T. (2007). 'Iris Murdoch's Mortal Asymmetry'. Philosophical Investigations, vol 30, no. 2, pp. 156-171.
• Milligan, T. (2007). 'Murdochian Humility'. Religious Studies, vol 43, no. 2, pp. 217-228.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0034412506008808
• Milligan, T. (2007). 'Lockean Puzzles'. Journal of the Philosophy of Education, vol 41, no. 3, pp. 351-361.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00566.x
• Milligan, T. (2007). 'Mortality and the Other'. Mortality, vol 12, no. 3, pp. 304-311.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13576270701430650

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Milligan, T. (in press). 'Puritanism and Truthfulness in Iris Murdoch's Ethics'. M Luprecht (ed.), in: Iris Murdoch Connected. Tennessee Studies in Literature, University of Tennessee.
• Milligan, T. (2012). 'Murdoch and Derrida: Holding Hands under the Table'. A Rowe & A Horner (eds), in: Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 77-90.
• Milligan, T. (2011). 'Speciesism as a Variety of Anthropocentrism'. R Boddice (ed.), in: Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Human Animal Studies, vol. 12, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden & Boston, pp. 223-243.
• Milligan, T. (2010). 'Suffering and Contentment'. S Roberts & A Scott-Baumann (eds), in: Iris Murdoch and the Moral Imaginatiion. McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, pp. 168-189.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

• Milligan, T. 'Courage and Love in Dark Times'. Paper presented at 3rd Colloquium on Modalities of the Good, Universitas Carolina, Prague, Czech Republic, 1/08/12 - 3/08/12,.
• Milligan, T. 'Animal Rescue as Civil Disobedience'. Paper presented at Minding Animals, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 3/07/12 - 6/07/12,.
• Milligan, T. 'Valuing Love and Valuing the Self in Iris Murdoch'. Paper presented at Iris Murdoch Workshop, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 18/11/11,.
• Milligan, T. 'Frankfurt, Helm and Intimacy'. Paper presented at Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Love, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland, 30/09/11 - 1/10/11,.
• Milligan, T. 'Love and the Replaceability of Reasons'. Paper presented at Reasons of Love, Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 30/05/11 - 1/06/11,.

Books and Reports

Books

• Milligan, T. 'The Ethics of the New Space Frontier'. McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina.
• Milligan, T. (2013). 'Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law'. Bloomsbury, London & New York.
• Milligan, T. (2011). 'Love'. The Art of Living, Acumen Pub.
• Milligan, T. (2010). 'Beyond Animal Rights'. Think Now, Continuum, London & New York.

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