Name: Eugene Heath
Academic Rank: Professor
Department: Philosophy
Expertise Keywords: Business ethics, Ethics, Political and social philosophy
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: My areas of expertise include ethics, business ethics, and social and political Philosophy. I hold a Ph.D., in Philosophy, from Yale University and a B.A. from Davidson College. My published scholarship includes essays on Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, F.A. Hayek and, most recently, a textbook, MORALITY AND THE MARKET: ETHICS AND VIRTUE IN THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002). Published essays on Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, F.A. Hayek
Currrent Research: Business Ethics, topics in Eighteenth-century British moral philosophy (David Hume and Adam Smith), topics in social and political philosophy, an introductory work on Thomas Hobbes
Contact Information
Office Phone: 845-257-2981
E-mail Address: heathe@newpaltz.edu
Home Phone: 845-256-0214
Other Information
Positions held at New Paltz prior to current position:
Assistant Professor
Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | 1981-1988 | Ph.D. | 1988 | Philosophy |
| Davidson College | 1976-1980 | B.A. | 1980 | Philosophy |
Awards/Grants/Honors
Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Spring 2000
Publications
Essay: "The Philosophy of Politics and Law," World Philosophy, edited by Mel Thompson (London: Chrysalis Books, forthcoming, October 2002).
Essay: "On the Normative Implications of a Theory of Spontaneous Order," in Time, Order, Chaos: The Study of Time IX, edited by J.T. Fraser, Marlene Soulsby, Alexander Argyros (Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1998), pp. 125-134.
Essay: "Mandeville's Bewitching Engine of Praise," History of Philosophy Quarterly, 15 (April 1998): 205-226.
Essay: "Two Cheers and a Pint of Worry: An On-Line Course in Political and Social Philosophy," Teaching Philosophy 20 (September 1997): 277-300.
Essay: "The Commerce of Sympathy: Adam Smith on the Emergence of Morals," Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (July 1995): 447-466.
Essay: "Rules, Function, and the Invisible Hand: An Interpretation of Hayek's Social Theory," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (March 1992): 28-45.
Essay: "How to Understand Liberalism as Gardening: Galeotti on Hayek," Political Theory 17 (February 1989): 107-113.
Anthologies/Texts: Morality and the Market: Ethics and Virtue in the Conduct of Business (New York: McGraw- Hill, 2002).
Review Essay: J. Martin Stafford s Private Vices, Publick Benefits? A critical study of Private Vices, Public Benefits? The Contemporary Reception of Bernard Mandeville, ed. J. Martin Stafford (Solihull: Ismeron, 1997) in Hume Studies 25 (April/November 1999): 225-240.
