Dr. Daniel Corrigan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marymount. He received his B.A. from Iowa State University, his M.A. from Georgia State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Miami. He joined the faculty at Marymount in 2018, and prior to this, was a postdoctoral associate in business ethics and bioethics at the University of Miami Business School. Dr. Corrigan has always been interested in ethics and political and legal philosophy, and especially in determining how theory can inform and guide us in practice.

Dr. Corrigan teaches undergraduate courses at Marymount in Business Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Cyber-ethics, and Environmental Ethics, as well as an MBA course on Business Law and Ethics. In the classroom, Dr. Corrigan aims to provide his students with different levels of perspective. For example, in the area of business ethics, he encourages his students to examine issues from the perspective of our overall economic system, the perspective of an organization and the perspective of an individual business person. He also informs his students not only about the issues they'll currently encounter, but also about new or emerging issues they're likely to confront in the future. For example, new issues in cyber-ethics arise on almost a daily or weekly basis alongside new technologies. He finds it important that his students are aware of these emerging issues, so they can anticipate new trends and are ready to approach issues they're likely to confront in both their careers and personal lives in the years ahead.

Recently, Dr. Corrigan co-edited a book, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination, which discusses the philosophical, legal and political dimensions of granting rights to nature or natural objects, such as forests, rivers or entire ecosystems. Historically, legal rights have only been granted to people and institutional agents, such as corporations, but never to the environment. The book discusses this new frontier in environmental protection and sustainability and how we should relate to and value our environment. Rights of Nature was published in 2021, and was launched internationally this past July. Outside of teaching, Dr. Corrigan likes to spend his time reading and developing his next research projects.