The Condition
A violent young nihilist is involuntarily committed to a fundamentalist rehabilitation facility beyond legal oversight. Authority fractures into competing systems of belief and punishment, building toward a drug run to the Texas border where multiple accounts of the same events expose radically incompatible realities.
Milligan and the Preacher
John Milligan is a cynical, hard-drinking would-be novelist. Calder Lee Kane is a charismatic Texas-born holy man whose non-philosophy of "That-What-Is" has drawn a devoted following and a television audience in the millions. Milligan has decided to write a book about him. It doesn't go according to plan. Does it ever?
Moral Virtue and Nature:
A Defense of Ethical Naturalism
This book argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. Thus, the answer to the question of what makes a good human being is given in terms both objective and naturalistic. The author shows that neither is-ought gaps nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics.
The Novel: A Work in Prose
by John R. Milligan
Edited by Stephen R. Brown
A found manuscript by a vanished philosopher-novelist, written in numbered sections echoing Wittgenstein. Characters appear as variables, events as propositions — yet beneath the formal scaffolding lies an intimate human crisis: a man transmuting betrayal into philosophy, heartbreak into literary theory. Formally audacious, intellectually exacting, and unexpectedly intimate.