Gregory Robson

Associate Research Professor

Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

God

  • “Advice to Christian Philosophers, 40 Years Later” (with Christian Miller, Meghan Sullivan, Matt Frise, Devin Gouvea, and Philip Swenson), Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming
  • “Distributism 2.0: Putting Holiness Back in Commercial Society,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
  • “God, Catholic Thought, and Commercial Society,” Podcast interview, Spotlight, February 2025
  • “Nozick, the State, and God,” Independent Institute, Oakland, CA, November 2024
  • Christianizing Nozick,” The Independent Review, vol. 29 (2024): 289-302
  • Podcast Interview on Spotlight, “Business, Political Economy, and God,” May 2024
  • Two Underappreciated Reasons to Value Political Tradition,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 54 (2020), 519-538 (largely on how societies specify and apply foundational moral principles)
  • The Right to Inquire Into the Personal Worldviews of Candidates for Political Office,” Public Affairs Quarterly vol. 34 (2020), 72-96 (focuses on Christian worldviews)
  • The Ontological Argument: Kant’s Criticisms, Plantinga’s Reply,” Kant Studies Online (2012), 122-171 (17,600 words)
  • Reconsidering the Necessary Beings of Aquinas’s Third Way,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion vol. 4 (Spring 2012), 219-241
    *Top 0.2% of recently downloaded papers, philpapers.org (as of Sept. 2022, when data available)
  • “The Worldviews of Political Leaders and the Rights of Citizens,” St. Thomas Summer Seminar, 2016
  • “The Structure of Virtue and the Structures of Vice,” Virtue Ethics Workshop, University of Arizona, November 2015
  • “Quadragesimo Anno” (session presenter), Lumen Christi Seminar on Catholic Social Thought, University of California, Berkeley, August 2015
  • “Summa Theologica” (session presenter; excerpts on free choice), Lumen Christi seminar on St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, June 2014
  • “Reconsidering the Necessary Beings of Aquinas’s Third Way,” North Carolina Philosophical Society/South Carolina Society for Philosophy conference, Elon University, February 2012