Julian Padraic Young (born June 19, 1943) is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr.
He has appeared on radio and television in Ireland, New Zealand and the US, and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and Harper's Magazine.
[2] In 2011, Mark Anderson, a professor at Belmont University, discovered that a significant number of passages in Young's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2010) were plagiarized from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate.
[3] In addition to "large-scale structural similarities",[4] Anderson provides more than ten examples of Young's unethical academic practice.
A group of scholars led by Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy and senior Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto) suggested that Young admit publicly that the Nietzsche book "contains a number of passages that are copied from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate".