College of Staten Island
 The City University of New York
 
  
    
  Robert Lovering
Assistant Professor
Political Science, Economics & Philosophy

Robert Lovering
Assistant Professor

Office : Building 2N Room 229
Phone : 718.982.3127
Fax : 718.982.2888
Robert.Lovering@csi.cuny.edu


Degrees :
PhD, University of Colorado – Boulder
MA, University of Colorado – Boulder
BA, California Polytechnic State University



Biography / Academic Interests :
Professor Lovering specializes in ethics and the philosophy of religion. He has published articles and presented papers on a variety of topics, including abortion, theories of moral status, divine hiddenness, the ethics of hunting, and divine omniscience. Dr. Lovering is currently writing two books: On God and Evidence: Problems for Theistic Philosophers and Forbidden Pleasures and Mandatory Pain: The Ethics and Politics of Freedom.

Scholarship / Publications :
“The Substance View: A Critique,” Bioethics (forthcoming)

“On the Morality of Having Faith that God Exists,” Sophia (forthcoming)

“Does Ordinary Morality Imply Atheism? A Reply to Maitzen,” Forum Philosophicum, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 2011): 83-98.

“The Ever Conscious View: A Critique,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2011): 90-101.

“The Problem of the Theistic Evidentialist Philosophers,” Philo, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010): 185-200.

“Futures of Value and the Destruction of Human Embryos,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2009): 463-488.

“On What God Would Do,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2009): 87-104.

“The Virtues of Hunting: A Reply to Jensen,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2006): 68-76.

“Does a Normal Fetus Really Have a Future of Value? A Reply to Marquis,” Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2005): 131-145.

“Mary Anne Warren on ‘Full’ Moral Status,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 42, No. 4 (2004): 509-530.

“Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 56, Nos. 2-3 (2004): 89-107.
           •  Reprinted in Arguing about Religion, edited by Kevin Timpe (New York, NY: Routledge, 2009), 295–308.