BA, Univ of Wisconsin Eau Claire
MA, Trinity International Univ
PHD, Saint Louis University
Robert Hartman joined Ohio Northern University in Fall 2022. He has published two books and more than two dozen articles in professional journals and books. He has given more than eighty research presentations in nine countries. He co-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 at Tulane University’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and teaching 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.
- “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 (Wiley, 2023).
- “A Christian Ethics of Blame: Or, God says, 'Vengeance is Mine'," Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (2023).
- "Moral Luck and the Imperfect Duty to Spare Blame," Erkenntnis (2024).
- "Virtues that Mitigate the Deprivations of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," in Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil (forthcoming)
- Improving Character: Moral Virtues, Strategies, and Questions (book under contract with Wiley)
Courses Taught at ONU
- ETHC 2001: Ethics Bowl
- HONR 2111: Practical Ethics
- PHIL 1051: Ethics, Justice and Law
- PHIL 2251: Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL 2281: Philosophy of Law
- PHIL 2401: Professional Ethics
- PHIL 3201: Political Philosophy
- TREX 1001: Becoming a Better Person