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Christopher Tollefsen, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina; he has twice been a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.  He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on bioethics and natural law ethics.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of five recent books, including Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry, and, with Robert P. George, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.  His book Lying and Christian Ethics will appear with Cambridge University Press in April of 2014.

Areas of Specialization

natural law ethics, bioethics, philosophy of action

Articles on the EPS Site

• A Faithful Christian Academic in a Secular Setting

Books by Christopher Tollefsen

• Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)
  
  Routledge, 2010
  ISBN #0415887852
  
  
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• John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics (Philosophy and Medicine/Catholic Studies in Bioethics)
  
  Springer; 2005
  ISBN #1402031297
  
  
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• Lying and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)
  
  Cambridge University Press, 2014
  ISBN #1107061091
  
  
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