Dr. Samuel Bruton
Professor
Bio
Dr. Samuel Bruton received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998 and has worked at USM since then. He has taught a variety of courses in philosophy, but of late most of his teaching has been in ethics, critical thinking, and philosophy of law.
- PHD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998)
- MA - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988)
- BA - University of Colorado Boulder (1985)
Philosophy of Law, Critical Thinking, Ethics and Good Living, Intro to Philosophy, Ethics, Research Ethics, Modern Philosophy
- Race and the extra-legal punishment of professional athletes., Sport and Society, 2018
- What’s it to me? Self-interest and evaluations of financial conflicts of interest., Research Ethics, 2018
- Looks-Based Hiring and Wrongful Discrimination, Business and Society Review, 2015
- In defense of the questionable: Defining the basis of scientists’ engagement in questionable research practices. , Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2018
- Grounds for Ambiguity: Justifiable Bases for Engaging in Questionable Research Practices, Science and Engineering Ethics, 2018,
- Self-Plagiarism and Textual Recycling, Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance, 2014,
- A Qualitative Study of Equal Co-First Authorshiup, Accountability in Research, 2020,
- Personal Motivations and Systemic Incentives: Scientists on Questionable Research Practices, Science and Engineering Ethics, 2020,
- Financial conflicts of interest, disclosure and academic background, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2016
- Testing an Active Intervention to Deter Researchers’ Use of Questionable Research Practices, Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2019,
- Association of Practical and Professional Ethics
- English (Native or Bilingual)