Michael Bruce Patrick George (Iserlohn, Germany 1959) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Religious Studies, St. Thomas University, Fredericton (New Brunswick), Canada. His academic foci are: ethics (foundational, social, and applied); religion and culture; integrative bioethics; philosophical and theological hermeneutics; imagination, narrative, and history; philosophy of media.  He published numerous scientific and professional papers on these topics and held numerous lectures at various scientific conferences all over the world.

Education:

• Ph.D. – Ethics/Moral Theology, 1994; St. Paul University and University of Ottawa; Dissertation: Ethics and Imagination: Contributions from the Work of Paul Ricoeur to Bernard Lonergan’s Intentionality Analysis; Director: Dr. Kenneth Melchin.
• M.A. – Ethics/Moral Theology, 1987; St. Paul University and University of Ottawa; Thesis: The Possibility of an Ethics of Language in Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy; Director: Dr. Andre Guindon.
• Certificate of University Studies in Theology – 1985; St. Paul University and University of Ottawa.
• Completed course requirements for Ph.D. degree in Religious Studies, 1983–1985; University of Ottawa and McMaster University. Major: Western Religious Thought and Ethics. Minor: Buddhist Studies.
• M.A. – Religion and Culture, 1983; Wilfrid Laurier University. Major: Psychology of Religion. Minor: Church History, Critical Theory, Contemporary Spirituality. Director: Dr. Aarne Siirala
• B.A. – Philosophy, 1981; York University. Major: Ethics. Minor: History, Aesthetics.

He is member of the American Academy of Religion; the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion; the Catholic Theological Society of America; the Canadian Bioethics Society; the New Brunswick Bioethics Consortium; the Bioethics Team of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, Fredericton; the Horizon Health Network Ethics Education Working Group; the New Brunswick Catholic Health Association Ethics Committee; the FERN (Faculty Environmental Research Network) at the St. Thomas University, Fredericton; and the editorial boards of the Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Halifax, Canada) and Conatus: Journal of Philosophy (Athens, Greece).

He was the visiting humanities fellow at the Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (2004–2005), and teacher of English at the Jilin International Institute of Languages and Culture, Changchun, Jilin Province, China (2002).

Besides the above mentioned, he is also member of the Croatian Philosophical Society; the Organization Committees of the scientific conferences Lošinj Days of Bioethics (Mali Lošinj) and Days of Frane Petrić (Cres); and the Advisory Board of the journals Filozofska istraživanja and Synthesis philosophica, published by the Croatian Philosophical Society.  The mentioned facts bear witness to his intensive cooperation with Croatian scholars, which began in the 1990s. He is not only a regular participant of the aforementioned and some other conferences held in Croatia (such as Future of Religion course at the Inter-university Centre in Dubrovnik), but he was also a visiting scholar and guest professor at Croatian universities on two occasions: at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split (2010) and at the Croatian Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2017–2018).  In 2024 and 2025 he is again a visiting scholar at the University of Zagreb, i.e. at the University Centre for Integrative Bioethics. The seminar on Lonergan at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, is a significantly improved and extended continuation of two successful colloquia he held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in December 2017 and in May 2018 (together with Patrick Daly, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA).