Tony Milligan

Tony Milligan
Milligan, 2015
Born	1966 (age 51–52)
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Institutions	King's College London
Main interests	Love, Iris Murdoch, animal ethics, space policy, civil disobedience

Tony Milligan is a Scottish philosopher who is currently a teaching fellow in ethics and the philosophy of religion in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London. Much of his research concerns Iris Murdoch, the philosophy of love, animal ethics, space policy and civil disobedience.

Education and career

Milligan studied at the University of Stirling, reading philosophy, before going on to the University of Glasgow to study for a doctorate. His PhD thesis was entitled "Iris Murdoch's Romantic Platonism". He then worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Aberdeen's department of philosophy, and then as a lecturer at the University of Hull. After his time at Hull, he returned to Aberdeen. He then moved to the department of philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, where he worked for two years as a lecturer. He then moved to King's College London, where he is currently a teaching fellow in ethics and the philosophy of religion in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.^[1]

Selected publications

Monographs

• Milligan, Tony (2016). The Next Democracy?: The Possibility of Popular Control. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Milligan, Tony (2015). Nobody Owns the Moon: The Ethics of Space Exploration. Jefforson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company.
• Milligan, Tony (2015). Animal Ethics: The Basics. London and New York: Routledge.
• Milligan, Tony (2013). Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.^[2]
• Milligan, Tony (2011). Love: The Art of Living. London and New York: Routledge.^[3]
• Milligan, Tony (2010). Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics. London and New York: Continuum.^[4]

Edited collections

• Maurer, Christian, Tony Milligan and Kamila Pascovská, eds. (2014). Love and Its Objects: What Can We Care For?. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles

• Milligan, Tony (2015). "The Political Turn in Animal Rights". Politics and Animals 1 (1): 6-15.
• Milligan, Tony (2013). "The Duplication of Love's Reasons". Philosophical Explorations 16 (3): 315-323. doi:10.1080/13869795.2013.812740
• Milligan, Tony (2013). "Love in Dark Times: Iris Murdoch on Openness and the Void". Religious Studies 50 (1): 1-14. doi:10.1017/S0034412513000188
• Milligan, Tony (2012). "Iris Murdoch and the Borders of Analytic Philosophy". Ratio 25 (2): 164-176. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00529.x
• Milligan, Tony (2011). "Wild Justice". Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (2): 243-245. doi:10.1080/21550085.2011.578386
• Milligan, Tony (2011). "The Wrongness of Sex with Animals". Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (3): 241-256. JSTOR 23057080
• Milligan, Tony (2010). "Exile From Perfection in Iris Murdoch's Philosophical Texts". Heythrop Journal 51 (1): 22-33. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00536.x
• Milligan, Tony (2009). "Dependent Companions". Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (4): 402-413. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00460.x
• Milligan, Tony (2008). "False Emotions". Philosophy 83 (2): 213-230. doi:10.1017/S0031819108000478
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "Mortality and the Other". Mortality 12 (3): 304-311. doi:10.1080/13576270701430650
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "Murdochian Humility". Religious Studies 43 (2): 217-228. doi:10.2307/20006365
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "Lockean Puzzles". Journal of Philosophy of Education 41 (3): 351–361. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00566.x
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "Iris Murdoch's Mortal Asymmetry". Philosophical Investigations 30 (2): 156–171. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9205.2007.00315.x
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "Whimsical Desires". Ratio 20 (3): 308–319. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00367.x
• Milligan, Tony (2007). "The Implausible Time Machine". Think 5 (14): 63-72. doi:10.1017/S1477175600001901

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