Timothy J. Madigan (born 1962) is an American philosopher, author and editor, and a noted humanist. He is particularly notable for having been the Editor of

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, a leading journal of secular humanist discussion and commentary. Madigan graduated in philosophy from the

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in 1984, later gaining an MA and a PhD from the same institution. His PhD supervisor was Peter Hare. Madigan's PhD was on the 19th century mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford, and he wrote a 2009 book about Clifford. From the mid-1980s Madigan was employed by the journal

. He became its Executive Editor (1987–1996) and then Editor (1996-1998). He left to become the Editorial Director of the University of Rochester Press, in

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. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at

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, also in Rochester, NY. Madigan is also one of the US Editors of

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magazine. As Secular Humanist Mentor of the

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, Madigan was active in helping establish local secular humanist societies throughout the United States. Since 1993 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Bertrand Russell Society. In 2015 he was elected President of the Bertrand Russell Society. Madigan is a frequent speaker and panel chair at academic conferences on a wide range of humanities subjects. His own advice on chairing conference sessions has been published in ''Academe'', the journal of the

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Books

* ''The Question of Humanism'' with David Goicoechea and John Luik (1991) * ''The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays by William Kingdon Clifford'' edited by Timothy J. Madigan (1999) * ''Promethean Love'', edited by Timothy J. Madigan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. * ''God and the Philosophers'', by Paul Edwards edited by Timothy J. Madigan, Prometheus Books, 2008. * ''W.K. Clifford and "The Ethics of Belief"'', by Timothy J. Madigan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. * ''Lucretius: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance'' ed by David B. Suits and Timothy J. Madigan, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press 2011 * ''Beyond Sustainability'', (co-written with Tim Delaney), McFarland Publishing, 2014. * ''The Sociology of Sports'', 2nd Edition (co-written with Tim Delaney), McFarland Publishing, 2015. * ''Lessons Learned from Popular Culture'', (co-written with Tim Delaney), SUNY Press, 2016. * ''Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual'', (co-edited with Peter Stone), Tiger Bark Press, 2016. * ''Friendship and Happiness and the Connection Between Them'', (co-written with Tim Delaney), McFarland Publishing, 2017.

References

External links

Homepage at St John Fisher College
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