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Bryan Benham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Lecturer) University of Utah |
Research Interests My research focuses on questions at the intersection of science and human values. I have ongoing projects regarding issues in genetic research and neuro-cognitive explanations of behavior that have direct impact for understanding reductive explanatory strategies in the sciences, notions of emergence, and implications for concepts of moral agency and self. I also work on issues regarding research ethics, especially deceptive methods in the behavioral sciences. (See a description of my Research Projects). Works in Progress A Casebook for Research Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield; Under contract) Should we be responsible for what neural lie detection reveals? (To be presented at Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, August 24-27, 2009.) What is the problem of Reduction? Genetics and Neural Circuitry of Sex Specific Behavior in the Nematode C. elegans Developmental Essentialism (w/Matt Haber) Lessons of Eugenics (w/James Tabery) Varieties of Deception in Research Is 'Authorized Deception' Ethical? Suicide and Self-Harm in Chronic Pain Patients (w/Akiko Okifuji) Neglected Ethical Aspects of International Microbicide Research (w/Patrick Kiser) Memory, Self, and Pain
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Courses 2009-2010
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