Michael Ruse was born in England in 1940 and raised a Quaker. He realized fifteen minutes into his first philosophy class—on Descartes’ Meditations—that that was what he was going to do for the rest of his life, and fifty-two years of teaching and fifty-five books later he has never regretted that decision.
He went to Canada to do graduate work in 1962, taught there until 2000, when he moved south to the US to avoid compulsory retirement. He is a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he lives with his wife and five dogs. His five children have all left home, more on some days than on others. He is immensely proud of the fact that all of his kids have jobs serving other human beings, with the exception of the youngest who is a philosophy graduate student. He has professional skills at making cappuccinos.
Contributions to HumansandNature.org:
- The Moral of Our Story
A response to “What can evolution tell us about morality?”
Noteworthy Links:
The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet
A book by Michael Ruse.
