Gregory Robson

Associate Research Professor

Business Ethics and Society

Biography

Gregory Robson teaches and writes in social and political philosophy, business ethics, and technology ethics. He is currently working on True Prosperity (CUP, under contract) and a revised and expanded edition of Technology Ethics (Routledge, under contract). His articles have appeared in several top journals, and his citation count has reached the 94th percentile among living philosophers over the past five years in ethics, social and political philosophy, and law (philpeople.org), including the top 4% in business ethics. 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 AI and price personalization, social media echo chambers, distributism, holiness in political philosophy, and the ethics of profitable business.

Background

Editorial Boards

Journal Editor, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy (2021)

Publications

A Call for Epistemic Humility in Political Philosophy

Gregory Robson

Public Affairs Quarterly

2025

Are Social Contracts Possible Without Actual Negotiation?

Gregory Robson
Randall Holcombe

Constitutional Political Economy

2025

Distributism 2.0: Putting Holiness Back in Commercial Society

Gregory Robson

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

2025

Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business

Gregory Robson
James Otteson

Philosophy of Management

2025

AI and Political Economy: Citizens Beware

Gregory Robson
Justin Tosi

Journal of Politics

2025

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Presentations

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)

Awards

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)