Philosophy: Benjamin Huff

Name: Benjamin Huff Education:     B.A., Philosophy/B.S., Mathematics, Brigham Young University Ph.D., M.A., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Office: 240 Copley Phone: 752-7216 E-mail: benjaminhuff@rmc.edu

Bio:

Benjamin Huff has taught in the Philosophy Department at Randolph-Macon College since September 2006. His research interests include Ethics (especially Virtue Ethics), Confucianism, Comparative (East-West) Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion. He teaches a number of courses in these and other areas in ethics (theoretical and applied) and the history of philosophy. Dr. Huff was born in northern Virginia but has traveled extensively, living in Saudi Arabia for seven years and Japan for two years. He graduated from The Cate School in 1989, completed his B.A./B.S. in Philosophy and Mathematics at Brigham Young University in 1996 and his M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2006) in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. The focus of his current research is to develop a contemporary eudaimonist ethical theory, incorporating insights from ancient Greek and Confucian ethical thought.

Course Syllabi (in PDF):

Phil 212—Ethics

Phil 220—Philosophy East and West

Phil 234—Philosophy of Education

Phil 251—Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Philosophy

Phil 260—Philosophy of Religion

Phil 313—Environmental Ethics (was Phil 213)

Phil 343—Confucian Tradition

Phil 370—19th-Century Philosophy

Phil 404—Freedom

Phil 408—Virtue (contemporary virtue ethics)

FYC 178—Ethics and Ecology of China's Three Gorges Dam

Links:

International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)

Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology