Dr. Michelle Brady

Honors Programs Associate Professor
Philosophy Associate Professor

Phone: 513-745-2036 Fax: 513-745-3065 ML#: 4443 Email: brady@xavier.edu Office Location: 204 Hinkle Hall     Degrees: Ph.D. (Emory University) First Year at XU: 1999 CV: Click to View

Areas of Expertise:
History of Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Other Information:

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.