Joseph M. Boyle

Joseph M. Boyle (1942 – 2016) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is known for his works on ethics. Boyle is a former president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Books Free Choice: A Self-Referential Argument, with Olaf Tollefsen and Germain Grisez, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979 Life and Death with Liberty and Justice: A Contribution to the Euthanasia Debate, with Germain Grisez, Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame Press, 1979 Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Realism, with John Finnis and Germain Grisez, Oxford: Oxford University, 1987 Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Summary, Defense, and Explanation, with Ronald David Lawler and William E. May, Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1984; updated 1996; 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2011 Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader, edited by John Liptay and Christopher Tollefsen, Washington; The Catholic University of America Press, 2020