Bryan Benham, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Adjunct)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Adjunct Assistant Professor – Pain Research Center
Associate – Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
Faculty at The Brain Institute

University of Utah
Department of Philosophy
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 864-0664
bryan.benham@philosophy.utah.edu
hum.utah.edu/~bbenham

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

My research focuses on questions at the intersection of science and human values. I have ongoing projects regarding issues in the use of deceptive methods in research, cross-species organisms 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. See more complete description of my Research Projects.

Works in Progress

Haber, Matt, & Benham, Bryan. Forthcoming, 2012. Reframing the Ethical Issues in Part-Human Animal Research: The Unbearable Ontology of Inexorable Moral Confusion. The American Journal of Bioethics.

Okifuji, Akiko, & Benham, Bryan. Forthcoming, 2011. Suicidal and Self-Harm Behaviors in Chronic Pain Patients. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research.

A Casebook for Research Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield; Under contract)

Assessing Risks and Benefits of Deception in Research. (Invited panel presentation for the 2011 PRM&R Advancing Ethical Research Conference, National Harbor, MD, December 2-4, 2011.)

Should we be responsible for what neural lie detection reveals? (Presented at Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, August 24-27, 2009.)

Reductionism and the Causal Determinants of Behavior: The Case of Sex Specific Behavior in C. elegans.

Lessons of Eugenics

Is 'Authorized Deception' Ethical?

Neglected Ethical Aspects of International Microbicide Research (w/Patrick Kiser)

Memory, Self, and Pain

 

 

 

Courses

Prof. Benham has no teaching assignments for the school 2009-2010 year. He will be spending the year in the Jorgensen lab studying neuro-genetic determinants of sex specific behavior in C. elegans. The year of research is supported by an NSF Professional Development Fellowship (Science, Technology, and Society Program).

 

Director of Graduate Teaching Links

  • CTLE: Center for Learning & Teaching Excellence
  • TACC: Technology Assisted Curriculum Center

 

Some Course Syllabi