F. Eugene Heath, who holds a Ph.D. degree from Yale University, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at New Platz. He specializes in Eighteenth Century British Moral Philosophy, Ethics, and Social and Political Philosophy.
Dr. Heath has been honored with numerous grants and fellowships, including a Richard Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Claude Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Salvatori Fellowship from the Heritage Foundation.
He has published articles include "The Philosophy of Politics and Law"; "The Commerce of Sympathy: Adam Smith on the Emergence of Morals"; "Rules, Function and the Invisible Hand: An Interpretation of Hayek's Social Theory"; and other philosophical essays. Dr. Heath has presented papers before the Mont Pelerin Society, the American Philosophical Association, the World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, the American Association for Higher Education, the Association des Historiens de la Tradition Economique Autrichienne (Paris), and many other organizations and groups.
His newest work is The Morality of the Market: Readings in Ethics, Business and Economics, an anthology of the historical writings on the foundations, operations, and effects of market societies.
Insight Magazine interviewed Dr. Heath on the subject of business ethics in its March 18 issue. Click here to read this article.
Dr. Heath is a member of the Hume Society, the Adam Smith Society, the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, the American Philosophical Association, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.