Specializations

AOS: Philosophy of Psychology/Biology and Research Ethics
AOC: Bioethics (Genetics), Philosophy of Science, Ancient (Greek & Indian) and Modern

Selected Publications

Benham, Bryan. (Under contract). A Casebook for Research Ethics. Roman & Littlefield Publishers.

Benham, Bryan. 2009. Analogies and Other Minds. Informal Logic 29(2): 198-214.

Benham, Bryan, & Haber Matt. 2008. Moral Confusion and Developmental Essentialism in Part-Human Hybrid Research. The American Journal of Bioethics 8(12):42-44.

Benham, Bryan. 2008. Debriefing and Moral Accountability, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18(3): 253-273.

Benham, Bryan. 2008. What's in a Name? American Journal of Bioethics 8(4): 47-49.

Benham, Bryan. 2008. The Ubiquity of Deception and the Ethics of Deceptive Research, Bioethics 22(3): 147-56.

Benham, Bryan, & Shimp, Charles. 2007. On the Communication of Values between Scientists and the Public, International Journal of Comparative Psychology 20: 20-24.

Benham, Bryan. 2006. Bioterrorism: Policy Considerations for the Research Institution, in Research Administration and Management, edited by E. Kulakowski & L. Chronister. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers: 601-616.

Benham, Bryan, & Francis, Leslie. 2006. Revisiting the Guiding Principles of Research Ethics, The Lancet 367, February 4: 387-88.

Benham, Bryan, & Shimp, Charles. 2005. Falsification in Social Science Method and Theory, in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vaol. 2. Edited by K. Kempf-Leonard. San Diego: Elsevier: 9-14.

Benham, Bryan. 2000. Ryle and the Para-mechanical, Southwest Philosophical Studies 22: 10-18.

Selected Presentations

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

Is Neuroscience the New Philosophy? Presented to Department of Psychology, Weber State University, April 15, 2008.

Mind, Brain, and Values. Presented to the Department of Psychology, University of Utah, april 6, 2007.

The Self in Pain: Permeable and Unstable Boundaries. Presented at "Exploring the Boundaries of Exerience and Self," Consciousness and Experiential Section of the British Psychological Society, 10th Annual Conference, Oxford, UK, September 16, 2006.

Persisting Difficulties in Overcoming Dualism: Biopsychosocial Models of Pain. Presented with Yoshi Nakamura at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, Tucson, AZ, April 7, 2006.

Is the Self Necessarily a Unity? Presented to the Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State University, March 3, 2006.

On the Ethics of Deception in Social-Behavioral Research. Presented to Department of Psychology, Clinical Program, Louisiana State University, February 10, 2006.

Deception in Social-Behavioral Research: How Much is Too Much? Presented to the 2004 ORI Research Conference on Research Integrity, San Diego, CA, November 13, 2004.

The Ethics of Biological Warfare. Presented at the Frankenstein Exhibit Lecture Series, Salt Lake City Library, Utah Humanities Council, July 28, 2004.

The Ethics of Bioterrorism. Presented to Governer's Honors Academy at Southern Utah University, July 15, 2004.

A Self without Memory. Presented to the 2003 Western Humanities Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT, October 16, 2003.

Pre-emptive Justifications for War on Iraq: Just Cause, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Presented to the 20th International Social Philosophy Conference, Boston, MA, July 18, 2003

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy – University of New Mexico, 2002
M.A. in Philosophy – University of New Mexico, 1994
B.A. in Philosophy – Humboldt State University, 1989

Academic Appointments

• University of Utah – Assistant Professor, Lecturer in Philosophy (2001-Present)
• James Madison University – Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy (1999- 2001)
• Colorado Mountain College – Instructor at Chaffee County Center (Summers 1993-94)
• University of New Mexico – Instructor and Graduate TA (1992-1999)

Selected Grants, Fellowships, Awards

2009/10 – National Science Foundation, Professional Development Fellowship (STS, 08-533) Project Title: Inter-Level Explanatory Reduction in Biology: Assessing Reductive Strategies in teh Neurogenetic Explanation of Sexual Attraction in C. elegans.

2006/07 – Nominated for Early Career Teaching Award. University of Utah.

2006 – Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant: Genetics and Society. University of Utah, College of Humanities. (With Wayne Davis, Biology).

2005 – Committee on Applied Ethics and Human Values: Human Values in the Scientific Method. (With Charles Shimp, Psychology).

2004 – University of Utah Teaching Grant: Teaching Research Ethics Workshop at Poynter Institute, Indiana University.

A complete CV is available here