Christopher Tollefsen

Dr. Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy and the Peter McCausland Chair in Civic Engagement at the University of South Carolina where he directs the Center for American Civic Leadership and Public Discourse. He is a leading scholar of natural law and natural rights. He has made important contributions to philosophical scholarship in the areas of bioethics, the ethics of inquiry, and the role of intention in shaping the meaning of human action. He has also contributed significantly to discussions of the relationship between moral theology and philosophical ethics. He is the author of Lying and Christian Ethics, and Killing and Christian Ethics, both with Cambridge University Press, and co-author, with Robert P. George, of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life and, with Farr Curlin, The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession.