David Scott - University of Victoria

Dr. David Scott

Position

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor

Philosophy

Contact

Office: CLE B320

History: B.A., M.A. (Memorial), Ph.D. (Reading), associate professor, undergraduate and honours advisor, has taught at Memorial University, Reading University, and Gonzaga University and joined this department in 1999.

Interests: include early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics.

Publications: Dr. Scott is the author of On Malebranche (2001) and his articles have appeared in Southern Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Journal of the History of Philosophy.

UVic Philosophy

3 days ago

Colloquium Friday (today)! Friday, October 12th, 2018 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Clearihue A303 Dr. Gina Rini (York University) Title: Moral Disagreement is Special Abstract: Most of the literature on moral disagreement is framed in strictly epistemic terms. I argue that this framing is misleading, as moral disagreement is unlike peer disagreement in other epistemic domains, owing the special character of the moral domain. I defend the claim that disagreement with peers gives us reason to reduce confidence in disputed moral beliefs, but not for epistemic reasons. Rather, we have moral reason to do so. Reducing confidence in this way is morally required by recognition respect for the moral agency of the peer with whom we disagree.

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UVic Philosophy

2 weeks ago

Victoria Colloquium Monday Oct 1 at 2:30PM COR A129 Speaker: Dr. Lori Gruen Title: Resistance Self-Respect: Another Challenge for Liberalism Lori Gruen is the author and editor of eleven books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011), The Ethics of Captivity (Oxford, 2014), and Entangled Empathy (Lantern, 2015) and the forthcoming Critical Terms for Animal Studies (2018) She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and a Faculty Fellow at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Animals and Public Policy and was the first chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan. Gruen has documented the history of The First 100 chimpanzees in research in the US and has an evolving website that documents the journey to sanctuary of the remaining chimpanzees in research labs The Last 1000. Her research lies at the intersection of ethical theory, political philosophy, and social practice. She has written on a range of topics and her current projects include exploring ethical and political questions raised by captivity and carceral logics.