Robert Hartman

Robert Hartman joined Ohio Northern University in Fall 2022. He has published two books and more than twenty articles in professional journals and books. He has given about eighty research presentations in nine countries. He coaches ONU’s Ethics Bowl team and is a member of various committees including the PPE major (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) steering committee and the A&S grade appeals committee. He is also the faculty advisor for Phi Sigma Tau (philosophy honors society).

Before coming to ONU, he was researching philosophy at Tulane University’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and teaching philosophy at Tulane University and St. Louis University.

Website: http://www.robertjhartman.com/

Some Recent Scholarship

• In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness (Routledge, 2017).
• The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, co-edited with Ian M. Church (Routledge, 2019).
• “Consequentialism and Virtue” (co-authored with Joshua W. Bronson) in Hundbuch Tugend Und Tugendethik, edited by Christoph Halbig and Felix Timmermann (Springer, 2021): 307-320.
• “Concomitant Ignorance Excuses from Moral Responsibility,” Thought 10 (2021): 58-65.
• “Heavenly Freedom and Two Models of Character Perfection,” Faith and Philosophy 38 (2021): 45-64.
• “Free Will and Moral Luck,” in A Companion to Free Will, edited by Joseph Campbell, Kristin M. Mickelson, and V. Alan White (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).
• “A Christian Ethics of Blame: Or, God says, 'Vengeance is Mine'," Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (2023).

Courses Taught at ONU

• TREX 1001: Becoming a Better Person
• PHIL 1051: Ethics, Justice and Law
• ETHC 2001: Ethics Bowl
• PHIL 2251: Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 2281: Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 2401: Professional Ethics
• PHIL 3201: Political Philosophy