Faculty Directory
Philosophy
Battin, Margaret P.
402 CTI
Phone: 581-6608
E-mail: battin@utah.edu
General Research Interest: Bioethics; Bioethics &
Medical Ethics; Reproductive issues including population growth;
teen pregnancy, male contraception; medical ethics- especially
euthanasia, suicide, physician-assisted suicide, end-of-life
issues, ethical issues in organized religion. Ethical issues
in infectious disease; ethical issues in drug use; medicine
in non-western cultures.
Student Participation: Library and database research;
identifying sources; abstracting documents & articles, scanning
of literature, compilation and preparation of manuscripts.
Background Needed: Library usage; familiarity with
basic reference style, inquisitive mind.
Outside Majors: Pre-Medicine, English, Communication,
History, Languages.
Key Words: reproduction, population, reproductive
rights, bioethics, medical ethics, euthanasia, suicide, physician-assisted
suicide, religion.
Student generated projects may be considered.
Francis, Leslie P.
402 CTI
Phone: 581-3489/4289
Email: francisl@law.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Bioethics; health law & medicine,
public health; disability; envirionmental ethics
Student Participation: Research projects. Researching the current literature
on issues of health policy & professional ethics, health care
rationing & informed consent in advanced industrialized economies
including our own.
Background Needed:
I prefer to work with students who have taken at least two courses in
philosophy, including one course in ethics. I am also especially
interested in working with students who are seriously considering law
school.
Outside Majors: Philosophy, Political Science, Environmental Studies.
Key Words: Ethics, professional ethics, law/lawyers,
bioethics, justice.
Student generated projects may be possible.
Mallon, Ron
402 CTI
Phone: 585-5810
Email: rmallon@philosophy.utah.edu
General Research Interest:
Moral psychology, cognitive psychology, social construction, race,
gender, human nature, evolutionary psychology, experimental philosophy.
Student Participation:
(1) Assist in the design and creation of experiements to test
philosophical theses, (2) General research assistance, (e.g. library
and bibliographic work)
Background Needed: Some philosophy or psychology
Outside Majors: Psychology, race/ethnic/gender studies, political science, economics.
Key Words: Psychology, cognitive science, morality, race, gender, human nature, evolutionary psychology, experiemental psychology
Student generated projects are possible.
Anya Plutynski
402 CTI
Phone: 581-7424
Email: Plutynski@philosophy.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Philosophy of science, history of science, espeically
early 20th C. genetics and evolutionary theory, ecology and
environmental studies, history of modern philosophy
Student Participation: Literature review,
find and copy articles and books.
Background Needed:Biology, especially evolutionary biology,
genetics, and/or history and philosophy
Outside Majors: Biology,
Environmental Studies, History.
Key Words: evolution, genetics, philosophy, ecology, environmental ethics
Student generated projects may be possible.
Thaylos, Mariam
402 CTI
Phone: 581-3473
Email: mthalos@philosophy.utah.edu
General
research interests: Game theory, decision theory, evolution
and behavior, ecology, altruism, social cooperation.
Student
participation: Library research, internet research.
Background
needed: None.
Outside
majors: Psychology, anthropology, biology, behavioral
sciences, management, economics, political science, sociology.
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