Michael Boylan’s Talk (24.09.2025)

A great philosopher Michael Boylan will visit the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw on 24 September 2025. At 18:00 in room 4, he will give a talk “The Philosophical Grounding of Distributive Justice and Human Rights.” See more below.

Abstract: In this seminar Michael Boylan presents his original account of the grounding of distributive justice and of human rights based upon his personal and community worldview account that comes together in his argument for the moral status of the basic goods of human agency. This argument is central in his books: A Just Society (New York and London: Roman and Littlefield, 2004) and Natural Human Rights: A Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).  It has been the topic of John-Stewart Gordon, ed. Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (New York: Lexington Books, 2009) and an international conference in Kaunas, Lithuania (2016).

Brief Bio

Michael Boylan, M.A. in English Literature, and Ph.D. in Philosophy (both from the University of Chicago) is an internationally recognized figure who has written 30 books in philosophy along with over 150 published essays—this supplemented with 12 published novels and 2 books of poetry.  He has been an invited speaker at some of the most prestigious universities in 16 countries on five continents.  He has also been a part of national policy committees in the U.S.A. and a participant in national thinks such as the Brookings Institution and the Center for American Progress.  His books include: A Just Society, Natural Human Rights: A Theory, The Origins of Ancient Greek Science: Blood—A Philosophical Study, and Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction can Act as Philosophy. Boylan is professor of philosophy at Marymount University in the United States.