| Department: | |
| Title: | Dr. Bulger |
| Office: | LA 121 |
| Email: | bulgerje@uvu.edu |
| Phone: | (801) 863-8717 |
| Fax: | (801) 863-6146 |
| Mail Code: | 173 |
Jeffrey W.
Bulger, Ph.D.
SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE:
Specialization: Theoretical and
professional ethics—social/political philosophy, personal ethics,
biomedical 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. Current focus is on the moral analysis of the Industrialization of Food Systems.
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. Professor,
Associate Professor, and Assistant 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
SABBATICAL AND FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
1.
Faculty Fellowship, Utah Valley University, Fall 2010 – Spring
2011
2.
Sabbatical Leave, Utah Valley University, Spring 2010
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
I. STUDENT MENTORING:
24th National Conference on
Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at The University of Montana, Missoula April
15-17, 2010.
1. Amanda
Putman: No Exercised Autonomy on Food
Choices
2. Christopher
Nelson: Food Fads
3. Pat
Runyan: Colony Collapse Disorder: The
Extinction of the Honeybee and its Implications on Mankind
23rd Annual NCUR meeting University of Wisconsin, La Cross,
Wisconsin.
April 16-18, 2009
1. Arthur
VanValkenburg: Threatening Treatment
2. Chad
Howz: Principles Gone to Pot
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, Cam
Action: A Foundation for Physicians of Finesse
3.
Craig L. Bounous: Principlism
Applied to the Military’s Responsibility of Care
4.
Chad Howse: Marijuana and
Morality
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 Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, VA April 21-23, 2005
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.