Gregory Robson
Associate Research Professor
Business Ethics and Society
574-631-9095
287 Mendoza College of Business
- Biography
- Publications
- Books
- Presentations
- Awards
Gregory Robson teaches and writes in social and political philosophy, business ethics, and technology ethics. He is currently working on True Prosperity (Cambridge University Press, under contract), a second book on justice (under review), and another edition of Technology Ethics (Routledge, under contract). Before coming to Notre Dame, he studied economics and organizational development at Vanderbilt, government at Harvard, and philosophy at Duke, the Angelicum (Italy), and University of Arizona (the top program in his area), and worked at Iowa State University and Wake Forest University. His latest research papers are on social media firms, labor conditions, distributist political economy, holiness in political philosophy, and the ethics of profitable business.
"Price Personalization in the Age of AI: Complicating the Defense", Business Ethics Quarterly, Forthcoming - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"A Call for Epistemic Humility in Political Philosophy", Public Affairs Quarterly, 39, 2025
"Advice to Christian Philosophers, 40 Years Later", (With Christian Miller, Meghan Sullivan, Matt Frise, Devin Gouvea, Phillip Swenson), Faith and Philosophy - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Are Social Contracts Possible Without Actual Negotiation?", (With Randall Holcombe), Constitutional Political Economy, 36, 2025
"Distributism 2.0: Putting Holiness Back in Commercial Society", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 99, 2025
"Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business", (With James Otteson), Philosophy of Management, 24, 2025
"The Dominance Dynamic in Business: Three Solutions", (With James Otteson), Business Ethics Journal Review - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"AI and Political Economy: Citizens Beware", (With Justin Tosi), Journal of Politics, 2025
"Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business", New Work in Philosophy, 2025
"Review of Alexander William Salter’s The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good", The Independent Review, 29, 2025
"Mapping Justice", Australasian Journal of Philosophy - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Theories, Facts, and Meanings in Political Philosophy", (With Guido Pincione), New Work in Philosophy, 2024
"Anarchy, State, and Utopia: Robert Nozick's Classic at 50", The Independent Review, 2024
"Christianizing Nozick", The Independent Review , 29, 2024
"The Business of Liberty and the Liberty of Business: Nozick’s Contribution", The Independent Review, 29, 2024
"The Profit System: How (and Why) to Deflect the Radical Critique", Constitutional Political , 35, 2024
"The Variety of Moral Vices: An Aristotelian Approach", Erkenntnis, 89, 2024
"Theories, Facts, and Meanings in Political Philosophy", (With Guido Pincione), Philosophers’ Imprint , 24, 2024
"Can We Morally Assess Business?", Library of Economics and Liberty, 2024
"Big Events Now", Harvard Magazine , 2024
"How to Object to the Profit System (and How Not To)", Journal of Business Ethics, 188, 2023
"Magistrates, Mobs, and Moral Disagreement: Countering the Actual Disagreement Challenge to Moral Realism", The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51, 2022
"Echo Chambers, Commerce, and Human Flourishing", New York: Routledge, Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (second edition; eds. Gregory Robson and Jonathan Tsou) - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"True Prosperity: People and Profit in the Technological Age", Cambridge University Press (CUP) - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (2nd ed.)", (With Jonathan Tsou), Routledge - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings", (With Jonathan Tsou), New York: Routledge, 2023
"AI, Virtue, and the Good Life", Whitworth University, 2025
"Market Paternalism: What It Is and What It Can Be", Purdue University, 2025
"The Political Economy of AI", Generative AI & The Humanities Workshop, University of Notre Dame, 2025
"Profitable Business and the Common Good", Investing for the Good Conference, Ave Maria University, 2025
"Is Belief in God Rational?", Spotlight, 2025
"Justice, Rectification, and the Common Good: Comments on Daniel Philpott’s Resurrecting Justice", Business Ethics and Society Program workshop, Notre Dame, 2025
"Nozick, the State, and God", Independent Institute, Oakland, CA, 2024
"Technology in the Meaningful Life: AI, Public Discourse, and the Common Good", Work and Professional Ethics Research Group, online, 2024
"Putting AI to Work: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", ASQ Quality Innovation Summit Panel, online , 2024
"Navigating Appropriate and Effective Use of AI and Large Language Models for BME Students", Iowa State University, online, 2024
"The Purpose of Christian Political Economy", Markets and Society Conference, 2024
"The Liberty of Business", University of Fribourg Research Workshop, Kandersteg, Switzerland, 2024
"Commercial Society: The Difficulty of Systemic Critique", Midwest Institutes Conference at Ball State University, 2024
"AI and Economic Planning", Midwest Institutes Conference at Ball State University, 2024
"Business, Political Economy, and God", Spotlight, podcast interview, 2024
"Planning Future Economies: Can AI Be Trusted?", Mendoza College of Business Ethics Week, 2024
"Representing Constituents and Representing Justice: Challenges Aplenty", Monash University Prato Centre, online, 2024
"Echo Chambers, Business, and the Good Life", Business Ethics and Society Program, Mendoza College of Business, 2024
"Experiments in Polycentricity", PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2023
"The Justice of Upholding (Some) Political Traditions", PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2022
"Objecting to the Profit System: The Demandingness of Systematic Critique", Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, 2022
"Aquinas on Justice as a Virtue", Iowa Catholic Radio, podcast interview, 2022
"How to Object to the Profit System (and How Now To)", PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2022
"Federalism, Justice, and Experiments in Living", MANCEPT Federalism Workshop, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, online, 2021
"Coffee with an Author session with James Otteson", Honorable Business, online, 2021
"How to Object to the Profit System (and How Now To)", Society for Business Ethics, online, 2021
Award
"2025 Mendoza Mission Research Award", Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, 2025
"Invited Participant", University of Notre Dame Zahm Retreat, Nairobi, Kenya, 2025
"Stipendiary Fellowship, Organs and Origins Conference", McGrath Institute for Church Life, 2025