Faculty/Staff

• Associate Professor, Philosophy
• Associate Professor, Honors Programs

First Year at Xavier University:

1999

Degrees:

• Ph.D. (Emory University)

Expertise:

History of Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Biography:

Michelle Brady received her B.A. (1991) from Haverford College, and her M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) from Emory University.

Her research and teaching are in ethics and political philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the relation between ancient and modern thought in these fields.  She has published on Plato, Aristotle and John Locke, and she is currently working on the implications of Locke’s account of education for his political thought. 

In addition to teaching departmental courses in ethics, political philosophy and early modern philosophy, she has introduced new courses on philosophy and literature and on the nature of human desire, both of which explore issues in moral education.  She has also developed a course on Locke’s moral psychology.

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