Eric L. Hutton

Associate Professor, Philosophy
Assistant Dean, Honors College

eric.hutton@utah.edu

 
Brief Biography: B.A. Stanford University - Classics, Chinese; M.A. Harvard University - Chinese; Ph.D. Stanford University - Philosophy. Areas of Expertise: Chinese Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics

Courses Taught:

• Philosophy 1003: Introduction to Philosophy—Philosophy and Human Nature (Spring '11)
• Philosophy 3500: Ethics (Spring '03)
• Philosophy 4110: Ancient Greek Philosophy (Fall '08)
• Philosophy 4140/6140: Classical Chinese Philosophy (Spring '11)
• Philosophy 5110/6110: Topics in Ancient & Medieval Philosophy (Spring '04)
• Philosophy 5150/6150: Topics in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Spring '08)
• Philosophy 5193/6190: Plato (co-taught with Elijah Millgram) (Fall '07)
• Philosophy 5500/6500: Contemporary Ethics (Spring '09)
• Philosophy 7500: Graduate Seminar on Virtue Ethics (Spring '07)
• Honors 2101: Intellectual Traditions—Antiquity and the Beginning of the Common Era (Spring '08)
• Honors 2104: Intellectual Traditions—Cross Cultural Dialogues (Fall '11)

Recent Publications:

• "Han Feizi's Criticism of Confucianism and its Implications for Virtue Ethics" in Journal of Moral Philosophy 5:3 (2008), pp. 423-453.  

• "Un-Democratic Values in Plato and Xunzi" in Marthe Chandler and Ronnie Littlejohn, eds. Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008.  

• "Character, Situationism, and Early Confucian Thought" in Philosophical Studies, January 2006, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 37-58.  

• "Xunzi" (translation of selected passages) in Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden, eds. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. 2nd ed. Hackett Publishing Co., 2003.

• "Moral Reasoning in Aristotle and Xunzi" in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, September 2002, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 355-384(30).  

• "Moral Connoisseurship in Mengzi" in Xiusheng Liu and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi. Hackett Publishing Co., 2002.

• "Does Xunzi Have a Consistent Theory of Human Nature?" in T.C. Kline and P.J. Ivanhoe, eds. Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi. Hackett Publishing Co., 2000.

• Review of Kurtis Hagen, The Philosophy of Xunzi: A Reconstruction, Open Court, 2007 for Dao, Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2007), pp. 417-421, and A Further Response to Kurtis Hagen in Dao, Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2007), pp. 445-446.

• Review of Xiusheng Liu, Mencius, Hume, and the Foundations of Ethics, Ashgate, 2003 for Hume Studies 30(1) April 2004.

• Review of G.E.R. Lloyd, The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China, Cambridge University Press, 2002 for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2003.

Other Information:

• Advice for Students Wanting to Pursue a PhD in Chinese Thought