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Christopher Olaf Tollefsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Philosophy

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Tel: 803-777-3736

Tollefsen@sc.edu

APERTIVO

Ph.D., Philosophy, Emory University, 1995.

B.A., Philosophy, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH. 1989

ANTIPASTI

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2004-2005

Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, Spring 2003-present.

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Fall 1997-present.

Visiting Instructor, Spiritan Institute of Philosophy, Ghana, Fall 1996- Spring 1997.

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Fall 1995-Spring 1996.

PRIMI

Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry, Routledge, 2008.

Embryo: A Secular Defense of Life co-authored with Robert P. George; Doubleday, 2008.

SECONDI

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: The New Catholic Debate, Springer, 2008.

“The President’s Council on Bioethics: Overview and Assessment” special issue of HEC Forum Vol. 18, No. 2, 2006.

John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics, Springer, 2004.

“Pragmatism in Bioethics,” special issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, with Mark Cherry, Vol. 28, Nos. 5-6, 2003

“The Edges of Consent,” special issue of HEC Forum, vol. 16, 2004.

DOLCI

“Disability and Social Justice,” in Philosophical Perspectives on Disability eds. Ralston, Ho, and Engelhardt, forthcoming Springer 2009.

“The Ever-Conscious View: A Critique,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly forthcoming Spring 2008.

“Could Human Embryo Transfer be Malum In Se? in S. Brakman and D. Weaver, eds., The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Moral Tradition Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2008.

“Ten Mistakes About End of Life Care,” in Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: the New Catholic Debate ed. Christopher Tollefsen (The Netherlands: Springer, 2008) pp. 213-236.

“Lying: The Integrity Approach,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2007.

“Religious Reasons and Public Bioethics” Christian Bioethics, 13, 2007, pp. 139-158.

“John Paul II and Children’s Education,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 21, 2007, pp. 159-189.

“Is A Purely first Person Account of Human Action Defensible?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9, 2006, pp. 441-460.

“MacIntyre and the Moralization of Enquiry,” International Philosophical Quarterly 46, 2006, pp. 221-238.

“Fission, Fusion, and the Simple View,” Christian Bioethics 12, 2006, pp. 255-263.

“Introduction: The President’s Council on Bioethics: Overview and Assessment,” HEC Forum 18, 2006, pp. 99-107.

“The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Some Platonic Objections to U2” in U2 and Philosophy ed. Mark Wrathall, Open Court 2006, pp. 195-205.

“Reasons for Action and Reasons for Belief,” Social Epistemology Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-11.

“Persons in Time,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 80, No. 1, 2006. pp. 107-123.

“Universalizability in Ethics,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 50. 2005, pp. 225-232.

“Abortion and the Human Animal,” Christian Bioethics, 10, 2005, pp. 105-116.

“Hume and Moral Expertise,” in Moral Expertise: A Reappraisal, ed. Lisa Rasmussen. (The Netherlands: Springer Press, 2005) pp. 55-72.

“The Normativity of Natural Function,” in Virtu, Natura e Normativita (Virtue, Nature, and Normativity) Antonio Da Re and Gabriele De Anna, eds. (Padua: il Poligrafo, 2004) pp. 171-190.

“John Paul II at the Beginning of the 21^st Century” in John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics ed. Christopher Tollefsen (The Netherlands: Springer Press, 2004) pp. 1-6.

“Basic Goods, Practical Insight , and External Reasons,” in D.S. Oderberg and T.D.J. Chappell (eds.), Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (England: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004) pp. 32-51.

“Natural Law and Meta-ethics: A Guided Tour,” Natural Law and Global Ethics Mark Cherry, ed. (The Netherlands: Kluwer Press 2004) pp. 39-56.

“Roman Catholic Bioethics” with Joseph M. Boyle,, The Annals of Bioethics, Joseph Pappin, Mark Cherry and Ana Iltis, eds. (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004) pp. 1-20.

“Introduction: At the Edges of Informed Consent,” HEC Forum 16 (2004) pp. 1-5.

“Sic et Non: Some Disputed Questions in Reproductive Ethics”in, Bioethics: A Philosophical Overview George Khushf, ed. (The Netherlands: Kluwer Press, 2004) pp. 281-413.

“Pragmatism in Bioethics: Diagnosis or Cure?” with Mark Cherry, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28(5-6) 2003, pp. 533-544.

“Justified Belief,” The American Journal of Jurisprudence 48, 2003, pp. 281-296.

“Institutional Integrity” in Institutional Integrity, Ana Smith Iltis, ed. (The Netherlands: Kluwer Press 2003) pp. 121-138.

“Experience Machines, Dreams, and What Matters,”The Journal of Value Inquiry 37, 2003, pp. 153-164.

“Managed Care and the Practice of the Professions,” in The Ethics of Managed Care, William Bondeson, ed. (The Netherlands: Kluwer Press, 2002) pp. 29-40.

"Cooperative, Coordinative and Coercive Epistemologies" in Realism and Antirealism, William Alston, ed. (Ithanca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002) pp. 149-166.

"Practical Reason and Ethics Above the Line," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 5, 2002, pp. 67-87.

"Embryos, Individuals, and Persons: An Argument Against Embryo Creation and Research," Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 18 No. 1, 2001, pp. 65-78.

"The Importance of Begging Earnestly," Christian Bioethics 6, 2000, pp. 267-280.

"Direct and Indirect Action Revisited," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXXIV, No. 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 653-670.

"Journalism and the Social Good," Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 14, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 293-307.

"McDowell's Moral Realism and the Secondary Quality Analogy,", Disputatio 8, May 2000, pp. 30-42.

"What Would John Dewey Do? The Promises and Perils of Pragmatic Bioethics," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 25, No. 1, January 2000, 77-106.

"Non-Ecumenical Ecumenism," Christian Bioethics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1999.

"Sidgwickian Objectivity and Ordinary Morality," Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 57-70.

“Meta Ain’t Always Betta: Conceptualizing the Generic Chaplaincy Issue,” Christian Bioethics, Vol. 4, No. 3, December 1998, pp. 305-315.

"Advanced Directives and Voluntary Slavery,” (Response To Thomas May, “Reassessing the Reliability of Advance Directives,") Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, No. 7, October 1998, pp. 305-313.

"Self-Assessing Emotions and Platonic Fear," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Sept. 1997, pp. 305-318.

"Donagan, Abortion, and Civil Rebellion," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 11, Number 3, July, 1997, pp. 303-312.

FORMAGGI

“Review of Believing by Faith,” The Philosophical Quarterly forthcoming, 2008.

“Animals and Machines: On Their Beginnings and Endings,” Lyceum 8: available on-line at: http://lyceumphilosophy.com/?q=node/59

“Review of Ethics in Medicine,” The Philosophical Quarterly 57, 2007, pp. 148-151.

“Review of Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History,” Touchstone January/February, 2007.

“But Am I A Conservative?” and other essays at Right Reason available on-line at: http://rightreason.ektopos.com/tollefsen.html

“Disputed Research In the Liberal State,” The Soapbox 2005, available on-line at: http://www.princeton.edu/~sshimp/26tollefson.html.

“Euthanasia and the Culture of Life,” at Princeton Pro-Life: http://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/tollefsen.pdf#search=%22euthanasia%20and%20the%20culture%20of%20life%22

“Animalism and the Unborn Human Being,” 2004, available at: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:foWwsaBv_SMJ:ontology.buffalo.edu/medicine_and_metaphysics/Tolllefsen.doc+animalism+and+unborn+human+life&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

“CEO Shuffle,” The New York Resident August 2002.

“Vouchers are What Justice Demands” The State March 2002.

“No Friend of the Disabled” The Manchester Union Leader August 2001.