Rob Lovering

Professor

Professor Lovering specializes in ethics and the philosophy of religion.

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder

B.A., California Polytechnic State University

Scholarship and Publications
  • A Moral Defense of Prostitution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
  • A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
  • God and Evidence: Problems for Theistic Philosophers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
  • “A Moral Argument for Frozen Human Embryo Adoption,” Bioethics Vol. 34, No. 3 (2020)
  •  “An Argument for the Prima Facie Wrongness of Having Propositional Faith,” Philosophy – Journal of the Higher School of Economics Vol. 3, No. 3 (2019)
  •  “‘That’s Just So-and-So Being So-and-So’: On Possible Meanings, Functions, and Moral Implications of an Explanation,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 25, No. 1 (2019)
  •  “Three Errors in the Substance View’s Defense,” Kriterion Vol. 32, No. 3 (2018)
  • “The Substance View: A Critique (Part 2),” Bioethics Vol. 28, No. 7 (2014)
  • “The Substance View: A Critique,” Bioethics Vol. 27, No. 5 (2013)
  • “Does God Know What It’s Like Not to Know?” Religious Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (2013)
  • “On the Morality of Having Faith that God Exists,” Sophia Vol. 51, No. 1 (April 2012)
  • “Does Ordinary Morality Imply Atheism? A Reply to Maitzen,” Forum Philosophicum Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 2011)
  • “The Ever Conscious View: A Critique,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 18, No. 1 (2011)
  • “The Problem of the Theistic Evidentialist Philosophers,” Philo, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010)
  • “Futures of Value and the Destruction of Human Embryos,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2009)
  • “On What God Would Do,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2009)
  • “The Virtues of Hunting: A Reply to Jensen,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2006)
  • “Does a Normal Fetus Really Have a Future of Value? A Reply to Marquis,” Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2005)
  • “Mary Anne Warren on ‘Full’ Moral Status,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 42, No. 4 (2004)
  • “Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 56, Nos. 2-3 (2004)



Last Updated: 07.13.2021

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