Welcome to the home page of Luke Robinson. I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

My research and teaching focus primarily on moral philosophy. I also have interests in political philosophy and philosophy of law, along with interests in metaphysics and philosophy of science.

My current research focuses on some related questions at the intersection of metaethics and normative ethics—including questions about the nature of moral principles and obligating reasons (right- and wrong-making circumstances), questions about how morally relevant factors (including obligating reasons) combine and interact to make right acts right and wrong acts wrong, and questions about what kinds of moral conflicts are possible (e.g., whether, and if so how, it's possible for an agent to have conflicting moral obligations). I'm particularly interested in the question of which alternative accounts of moral principles and obligating reasons are required by which alternative moral theories.

Before coming to SMU in 2006, I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, in December 2005. Before that, I earned my JD at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and practiced law in the litigation department of Drinker, Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate, I studied History at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.