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Gregory Robson

Gregory Robson is associate research professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

Education and Career

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Gregory Robson is an associate research professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Robson studied at Vanderbilt, Harvard, Duke, and the Angelicum (Rome), and in the top-ranked doctoral program in political philosophy at the University of Arizona. He has also worked at Iowa State University and Wake Forest University.

Robson co-won two essay competitions funded by the Templeton Foundation ($35,000 in prize money; see below). He is a Senior Fellow of the Independent Institute, and co-editor of The Independent Review. He is a faculty member of the Business Ethics and Society Program in the Mendoza College of Business (Notre Dame) and has been a faculty fellow of Notre Dame’s Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership.

Robson’s research on eminent domain law has been cited by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. His articles on Hobbes on justice and Aquinas on God have been in the top 0.2 percent of recently downloaded papers according to philpapers.org (as of Sept. 2022, when data were available). He is known for his research across several areas: technology ethics [1][2][3], business ethics[4] [5] [6], political economy [7] [8] [9], public discourse [10] [11], eminent domain law [12][13], virtue ethics [14][15], Christian philosophy [16][17][18], global ethics [19][20], and justice [21][22].

Journal Articles

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Chapters

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  • “Echo Chambers, Commerce, and Human Flourishing,” in Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (Routledge, eds. Gregory Robson and Jonathan Tsou, 2nd ed.), forthcoming
  • “Social Media Firms, Echo Chambers, and the Good Life” (2023: 204-214), in Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (Routledge, eds. Gregory Robson and Jonathan Tsou)
  • “Justice Theorizing and Local Knowledge” (2018: 35-54), in Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek (eds. Peter J. Boettke, Virgil Henry Storr, Jayme S. Lemke), New York: Rowman & Littlefield International

Short Essays

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Book Reviews

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Selected Honors and Fellowships

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  • Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, Fall 2022-Spring 2023
  • Research Grant, Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities, Iowa State University, 2022
  • Research and Travel Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, 2022
  • Publication Subvention Grant for Scholarly Works, Awarded by Iowa State University, 2021 (co-recipient with Jonathan Tsou, co-editor of Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings)
  • Grant recipient for research on Understanding Justice: Learning from Practice in Political Liberalism, Institute for Humane Studies Discourse Initiative, John Templeton Foundation, 2021
  • Grant recipient for co-edited book, Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (under contract with Routledge), Institute for Humane Studies Key Challenges Project, John Templeton Foundation, 2021
  • Riesen Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, co-winner, “Punishment: A Costly Signal?”, Philosophy Department, University of Arizona, 2017
  • Essay Competition Winner ($35,000 prize, co-authored with Daniel Cummings), Virtual Integrated Networking Experience competition (topic: Emerging Market Investment, Geographic Information Systems, & Global Poverty), Social Equity Venture Fund (Templeton), 2009
  • Graduate Student Essay Competition Winner ($20,000 prize, co-authored with Karina Robson; topic: Enterprise-Based Solutions to Global Poverty), Social Equity Venture Fund (Templeton), 2008
  • Best Senior Thesis Award (human & organizational development major), Vanderbilt, 2004

References

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  1. ^ Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (Routledge 2023; co-editor with Jonathan Tsou) Journal Articles
  2. ^ “The Threat of Comprehensive Overstimulation in Modern Societies” Ethics and Information Technology vol. 19 (2017), 69-80
  3. ^ “Echo Chambers, Commerce, and Human Flourishing,” in Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (Routledge, eds. Gregory Robson and Jonathan Tsou, 2nd ed.)
  4. ^ “How to Object to the Profit System (and How Not To),” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 188 (2023): 205-219
  5. ^ “Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business,” Philosophy of Management (with James R. Otteson)
  6. ^ “The Profit System: How (and Why) to Deflect the Radical Critique,” Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 35 (2024): 109-122
  7. ^ “The Rationality of Political Experimentation,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, vol. 20 (2021), 67-98, https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JWJC9B4BEI7KMQXHG5YY/full
  8. ^ “To Profit Maximize, or Not to Profit Maximize?: For Firms, This Is A Valid Question” Economics & Philosophy vol. 35 (2019), 307-320
  9. ^ “Profitable Business: Smith’s Moral Assessment,” Speaking of Smith, AdamSmithWorks.org, January 2021
  10. ^ “The Right to Inquire Into the Personal Worldviews of Candidates for Political Office,” Public Affairs Quarterly vol. 34 (2020), 72-96
  11. ^ “The Duty to be Transparent When Supporting Laws in Public Discourse,” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 49 (2023), 337-362
  12. ^ “Kelo v. City of New London: Its Ironic Impact on Takings Authority” The Urban Lawyer (American Bar Association) vol. 44 (Fall 2012), 865-908
  13. ^ “The Ironic Legislative Response to Kelo” The Municipal Lawyer (NY State Bar Association) vol. 26 (Summer 2012), 24-28
  14. ^ “The Varieties of Moral Vice: An Aristotelian Approach,” Erkenntnis, vol. 89 (2024): 1993-2012
  15. ^ “How to Object to the Profit System (and How Not To),” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 188 (2023): 205-219
  16. ^ “Reconsidering the Necessary Beings of Aquinas’s Third Way” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion vol. 4 (Spring 2012), 219-241
  17. ^ “The Ontological Argument: Kant’s Criticisms, Plantinga’s Reply” Kant Studies Online (2012), 122-171
  18. ^ “The Right to Inquire Into the Personal Worldviews of Candidates for Political Office,” Public Affairs Quarterly vol. 34 (2020), 72-96
  19. ^ “Assisting the Least Well-Off: An Essay on Human Rights, Information Structures, and the Value of Intercity Partnerships” Review of Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 11 (2012), 72-91
  20. ^ “What We Owe the Global Poor: In Defense of a Moderate Principle of Sacrifice” International Journal of Applied Philosophy vol. 27 (Fall 2013), 251-263, https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=ijap&id=ijap_2013_0027_0002_0251_0263
  21. ^ “Theories, Facts, and Meanings in Political Philosophy” (with Guido Pincione), Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 24 (2024): 1-14
  22. ^ “The Rationality of Political Experimentation,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, vol. 20 (2021), 67-98
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