Christopher Tollefsen

Dr. Christopher Tollefsen is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. 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 co-author, with Robert P. George, of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.