Scott Carson
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University (1996)
Ph.D., Classical Philology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986)
M.A., Roman History (UNC-CH (1981)
B.A., Kent State University (1978)
Research
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Philosophy of Biology
- Analytic Philosophical Theology
My teaching and research interests lie in the history and philosophy of the natural sciences, especially evolutionary biology and the biomedical sciences. I have written on Aristotle鈥檚 logic and epistemology, on the structure of evolutionary theory, mechanistic explanation in the philosophy of chemistry, and the role of indeterminacy in scientific theories generally. I have a keen interest in the history of philosophy, especially ancient Greek philosophy.
I am a participating faculty member in the , and a faculty associate in .
A partial list of work in progress.
Aristotle鈥檚 Scientific Realism. (Book manuscript)
Explaining Nature and the Nature of Explanation: A History of Philosophical and Scientific Naturalism (Book manuscript).
鈥淭he Logic of Disjunctive Properties in Anselm鈥檚 De processione Spiritus Sancti鈥� (under review)
鈥淎gainst Genic Selectionism鈥� (in progress)
Recent Publications
Aristotle on Meaning and Reference. History of Philosophy Quarterly 20.4 (October 2003) 319-337.
Aristotle on Existential Import and Nonreferring Subjects. Synthese 124 (2000) 343-360.
Some Comments on Education and Computer Technology. Classical World 91.6 (1998) 513鈥�520.
The Indeterministic Character of Evolutionary Theory: No 鈥楴o Hidden Variables Proof鈥� but No Room for Determinism Either. Philosophy of Science 63 (September 1996) 315鈥�337. Anthologized in Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology, ed. Stefan Linquist (Ashgate, forthcoming).
Sober on Brandon on Screening-off and the Levels of Selection. Philosophy of Science 61 (1994) 475-486.
Asconius in Cornelianam 68.7-69.13 (Clark) and Roman Legislative Procedure: A Textual Note. American Journal of Philology 109 (1988) 537-542.
Linguistically Oriented Greek Scansion. Computing and the Classics, 4.4, Supplement (August 1988) 1-8.
DICTIONARY and VERB DATABASE: A Morphological Database for the IBM-PC. Interactive Learning International, 4.2 (1987) 4-7.
Teaching
Fall Semester 2015 H4
- PHIL 3100: Ancient Greek Philosophy
- PHIL 4120/5120: Philosophy of Biology
Spring Semester 2016 H4
- PHIL 3110: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
- PHIL 4180/5180: Plato