| Department: | Humanities/Philosophy |
| Title: | Professor |
| Office: | LA 121 |
| Email: | bulgerje@uvu.edu |
| Phone: | (801) 863-8717 |
| Fax: | (801) 863-6146 |
| Mail Code: | 173 |
UVU
Jeffrey W. Bulger, Ph.D.
Philosophy Department
e-mail: bulgerje@UVU.edu
SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE:
Specialization: Theoretical and professional ethics—Kant, Mill, Rawls; BioEthics, social/political philosophy, personal ethics.
Competence: Business ethics, environmental ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and logic.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Political and Personal ethics using the method of Principlism: Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence and Justice.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Philosophy—concentration in Medical Ethics, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, 1994
Dissertation: Informed Consent And Rawls’s “Political” Theory Of Justice, July, 1994
Committee: Glenn C. Graber—Chair, Richard E. Aquila, George G. Brenkert, and
Charles H. Reynolds
M.A. Exegetical Theology, Western Seminary—Portland, 1986
B.S. Geology / Petroleum Engineering, University of North Dakota—Grand Forks, 1981
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
I. Full Professor, Utah Valley University— Orem, 1996-Present
1. Mill’s Utilitarianism and Liberty
2. Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
3. BioMedical Ethics
4. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
5. Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
6. Ethics and Values
7. Business Ethics
8. Introduction to Philosophy
9. World Religions
10. Astronomy (also created and taught as an internet/distance learning course)
11. Independent Study
II. Lecturer, California State University—Chico, 1995-96
12. Critical Thinking—Logic
13. Personal Values
14. Science and Modern Culture
15. Biomedical Ethics
III. Assistant Professor, Stetson University—DeLand, FL, 1994-95
16. Bioethics
17. Symbolic Logic—(taught in the classroom and with computers)
18. Philosophy of Science
19. Varieties of Ethical Theory
20. Applied Ethics
21. Environmental Ethics
22. Independent Study in Ethics
IV. Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, 1991-94
23. Introduction to Philosophy 1010, (epistemology, philosophy of mind, justice)
24. Introduction to Philosophy 1020, (metaphysics, god, ethics, justice)
25. University Studies & Microbiology, (HIV)
V. Adjunct Faculty, Pellissippi State College—Knoxville, 1990-91
26. Introduction to Philosophy
27. Business Ethics
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
I. STUDENT MENTORING:
23rd Annual NCUR meeting
April 16-18, 2009
1. Arthur VanValkenburg: Threatening Treatment
2.
3. Charles Broadbent: What’s in Your Plastics? A Principlist Approach to Bisphenol A
4. James Fuqua: The Mapped Human Genome: Pandora’s Box?
5. Kyle Bowler: Patient Assisted Suicide
6. Zackary Weber: Insurance Providers versus The Patient: The Violation of the Biomedical Ethical Principles Protecting the Patient.
3rd Annual Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research UCUR, Hosted by Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Friday February 20, 2009
1. Caitlin Anderson: Caution: This Paper Is Composed Primarily Of Soy; An Ethical Look At The Use of The Soybean In America
2. LeAnne Tolley: Lights,
3. Craig L. Bounous: Principlism Applied to the Military’s Responsibility of Care
4.
5. C. Steven Broadbent: What’s in Your Plastics? A Principlist Approach to Bisphenal A
22nd Annual NCUR meeting Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.
April 10-12, 2008
1. Whitney May: Circumcision In Today’s Society
2. Miguel Arturo Saldana: Socialized Medicine: Healthcare For All
3. Richard Cook: Animal Testing and Principlism in BioMedical Ethics
4. Craig Bounous: Principlism Applied To The Military’s Responsibility Of Care
2nd Annual Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research UCUR, co-hosted by BYU and UVU at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, Friday February 29, 2008
1. UCUR Whitney May: Circumcision in Today’s Society
Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, April 3, 2008 (Each student received a $100 stipend)
1. J. Eric Gentile: Clinton v Obama v McCain on Healthcare Issues from a Principlistic Approach
2. Mitchel Martin: Circumcision is Wacked, Keep His Manhood Intact
3. Chad Howze: Marijuana and Morality
4. James B. Fuqua: The Mapped Human Genome: Pandora’s Box?
5. Seth Wright: Healthcare: A Duty to All?
6. Jake Spencer: Is it okay to smoke with young children in the car?
7. Sylvia Bentley: Gene Therapy: Capitalism or just classism
8. Adam K. Gibbons: Surrogate Decision Making
21st National Conference on Undergraduate Research NCUR, Dominican University of California, April 12-14, 2007.
1. Austin Miller: The Historical Oath
19th National Conference on Undergraduate Research NCUR, Virginia Military Institute and
1. Lyndee Litchfield: Doctrine of Right in the War with Iraq
2. Arron Medford: The Philosophy of sales from a Kantian Perspective
3. Arron Medford: Circumcision
4. Damon MacArthur: Kantian Ethics and the Morality of Terrorism
5. Jeffrey Barth: The Democratic Liberty of Iraq
6. Jake Pead: Immanuel Kant and Global Warming Measures
7. Samuel Harrison: Immanuel Kant & The Destruction of Theocratic Governments
8. Trevor W. Hill: Land Acquisition and Ownership in Restricted area of Mexico
9. Ryan Albrecht: Liberation for the oppressed
10. Ryan Albrecht: Women and Social Reform in Boston
18th National Conference on Undergraduate Research NCUR,
1. Jared Sumsion: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2. Ray E. Webb: Aquinas Supports The Weed
3. Rebeka Dewey: The Right to Die: Six Criticisms Against the Creation of Living Wills
17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research NCUR, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 13-15, 2003
1. Sam Taylor: Ticking Bombs and Truth Serums: Ethics and Interrogation at Guantanamo Bay
2. Spencer Gale: NOTA HHS HRSA OSP DoT OAB URREA UNOS OPTN: The Transplant Organization And How It Works For The Patient
3. Swen Swenson: The Truth About Therapeutic Cloning
4. Julie Johnson: Elective Fetal Tissue Research
II. PUBLICATIONS:
1. An Approach Towards Applying Principlism, Ethics & Medicine 25:2, 2009
2. Principlism, Teaching Ethics, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 2007. (Published 2008)
3. Medical Marijuana Analyzed Using Principlism: Teaching Ethics, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 2007. (Published 2008)
4. Five entries in The Encyclopedic Dictionary on Globalization, published in both English and Russian, 2003. The Encyclopedia has won the “Book of the Year” award for the 16th Moscow International Book Exhibition and Fair (Sept. 2003). In October, 2003 it was presented the award at the International Book Fair in
Entries included:
Altruism: Altruistic and Psychological,
Egoism: Ethical and Psychological,
Determinism: Hard, Soft, and Indeterminism,
Utilitarianism: Act, and Rule,
Moral Universalizability: Kant and Mill
5. Applied Ethics: An Oxymoron, published in the Russian Philosophical Journal, Volume 3, 2001 (ISBN 1606-6251
6. Applied Ethics: A Categorical Mistake, Ethics Across The Curriculum Preceedings, 2001
7. A Model Of Human Decision Making, The Russian Philosophical Society, Published, February 1997
8. The Synergistic Coherent Model of Human Decision Making, Academy’s Journal, Encyclia, Published, February 1997
9. Assisted Suicide and the Fourteenth Amendment, Joint Bioethics Committee, Bioethics Bulletin, Summer, 1996
10. Autonomy In a Liberal Society, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Spring, 1996
III. Editor and Faculty Advisor:
1. Faculty Advisor for Beneficence: The Journal for Bioethical Inquiry, 2001-2003
2. Editor, Bioethics Newsletter,
3. Editor and Co-creator of the Student Bulletin, Society of Health and Human Values, 1990-92
IV. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
1. Pegasus Exists and Incommensurable Beliefs,
2. Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney, Bioethics Committee for
3. Mathematics as Intersubjective Agreements and the Impossibility of Transcending Human Subjectivity, Mathematics Department, Utah Valley University, Fall, 2008
4. Justice, Bioethics Committee for
5. Medicinal Use of Marijuana,
6. Stem Cell Research,
7. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Bioethics Committee for
8. Autonomy, Bioethics Committee for
9. History/Evolution of Biomedical Ethics, Bioethics Committee for
10. The Political Spectrum and the Bush Administration, Philosophy and the Ethics of Business: Education, Theory and Practice, Moscow, International University Kuntsevo Campus, June 28-July 2, 2003.
11. Social Political Philosophy and the Health-Care Industry, Community Nursing Services, Orem, Utah January 2003.
12. Civil Law and the Fetus, Third Annual Medical Ethics Symposium: Moral Dimensions of Reproductive Choices,
13. Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals, Philosophy Colloquium, UVU, Fall 2001
14. Morality As Natural Selection, Philosophy Colloquium, UVU, Spring 2001
15. How We Teach Philosophy In the United States, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2001
16. John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2001
17. Applied Ethics: An Oxymoron, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2001
18. Kant’s Metaphysics of Moral, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2001
19. A Darwinian Left, UVU Bookgroup, Spring 2001
20. Philosophical View of Russia From an American Point of View, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2000
21. American Philosophers, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2000
22. Teaching Philosophy in America, President of the Russian Philosophical Society, Moscow, 2000
23. John Rawls’s Political Liberalism, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, BYU, Provo, Utah, April, 1999
24. Humanity Teaching Philosophy, Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA, 10-16 August, 1998
25. A Model Of Human Decision Making, The Russian Philosophical Society, St. Petersburg, Russia, June,1997
26. The Synergistic Coherent Model of Human Decision Making, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, Weber State University—Ogden, April, 1997
27. Aids and Ethics, Utah Valley University, October, 1996
28. Affirmative Action: Pros and Cons, Center For Applied and Professional Ethics—CAPE, California State University—Chico, September, 1995
29. Dr. Ethics™: Computer Assisted Medical Ethics, Florida Philosophical Association, University of Florida, Gainsville, October, 1994
30. John Dewy, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, March 1993
31. Rawls’s Political Liberalism, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, September, 1993
32. Abortion and Fetal Tissue Research, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, March 1992
33. Dr. Ethics™: Computer Assisted Medical Ethics, Workshop, Annual Convention, Society for Health and Human Values, St. Louis, MO, October, 1991
34. Dr. Ethics™: Computer Assisted Medical Ethics, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, February, 1990
35. Diagnostic Testing: The Example of HIV, University of Tennessee—Knoxville, November, 1987
36. Sexual Activity At Lakeshore, Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, Knoxville, TN, July, 1987
37. AIDS Testing at Lakeshore?, Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, Knoxville, TN, July, 1987
38. Tobacco and Treatment, Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, July, Knoxville, TN, 1987
39. Drugs and the Patient, Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, June,
V. COMMITTEES:
1. Faculty Senator,
2. Faculty Senate Subcommittee on policy development for Appeals and Grievances,
3. Bioethics Education, Bioethics Committee for
4. Bioethicist, Bioethics Committee for
5. Kirk Englehardt Business Ethics Award Committee,
6. Faculty Senator,
7. Faculty Advisor for the Student BioEthics Journal Beneficence,
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