Thomas Mulligan: Brief Biography

Thomas Michael Mulligan

THOMAS M. MULLIGAN, PhD, is a retired faculty member of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in the field of Philosophy and worked for a number of years as a manager and consultant in the software and manufacturing industries. His research interests include the philosophical foundations of business ethics, business purpose, the role of the humanities in business education, the future of work, and the nature of social progress.

Essay:

"The Moral Mission of Business" (1993, 118kb PDF, 7 pages)
A business ethics position paper.

Short Stories:

"Plato's New Dialogue" (2007, 86kb PDF, 7 pages)
A newly discovered Platonic dialogue tells of a remarkable adventure in the life of young Socrates.
"How Cathy Lost Yet Another Boyfriend: A Tale of Corporate Culture" (1998, 56kb PDF, 4 pages)
Loosely based on a real-life incident. The names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent.

Poem:

"In Trinidad, to Freddie's Lair" (1969)
A light-hearted take on Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

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