Scott Edgar

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Faculty Member Information

Office Location: 523
Office Building: McNally North
Telephone: (902)719-5361
E-Mail: Scott.Edgar@smu.ca

Education

Ph.D., Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
M.A., Philosophy, Dalhousie University, 2000
B.A., Honours in Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1999

Membership

2015 - Present, Canadian Philosophical Association
2015 - Present, International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science

Honours

Whitney Humanities Center Fellow Yale University - 2012
American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies - 2011
Dean’s Scholar University of Pennsylvania - 2006
Critical Writing Fellowship University of Pennsylvania - 2006
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship University of Pennsylvania - 2005
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student University of Pennsylvania - 2004
William Penn Doctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania - 2001
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - 2001
Izaak Walton Killam Graduate Scholarship Dalhousie University - 1999
University of British Columbia Scholarship University of British Columbia - 1997

Teaching: Course / Program Development

2012/04 - 2014/03, Courses Taught at Saint Mary's University
2010/04 - 2012/03, Courses Taught at Yale University
2007/04 - 2010/03, Courses Taught at University of British Columbia
2007/01 - 2007/03, Courses Taught at Bryn Mawr
2002/03 - 2006/03, Courses Taught at University of Pennsylvania

Scholarly Contributions

Book Chapters

Edgar S. (2015). "The Physiology of the Sense Organs and Early Neo-Kantian Theories of Objectivity", Objectivity in Science: Approaches to Historical Epistemology, 101-122
Edgar Scott. (2015). "Intersubjectivity and Physical Laws in Post-Kantian Epistemology: Natorp and Cassirer", The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: a Novel Assessment, 141-162

Journal Articles

Edgar S. "The Limits of Experience and Explanation: F.A. Lange and Ernst Mach on Things in Themselves", British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21:1 (Spring - 2013), 100-121
Edgar Scott. "Kant’s Transcendental Deduction and a Cognitive Interpretation of the first Critique", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40:2 (Spring - 2010), 285-314
Edgar S. "Logical Empiricism, Politics, and Professionalism", Science and Education 18:2 (Spring - 2009), 177-189
Edgar S. "Paul Natorp and the Emergence of Anti-Psychologism in the Nineteenth Century", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (Spring - 2008), 54-65

Presentation

Edgar Scott. "The Limits of Kant’s Rationalism: Comments on Dyck", author-meets-critics response paper at the Canadian Philosophical Associations (Spring - 2015)
Edgar Scott. "Leibniz and Cohen's Leibniz on limits and infinitesimals", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting (Spring - 2015)
Edgar Scott. "Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Mathematics: A Rationalist Interpretation", History of Philosophy of Science Society Meeting (Summer - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "The Most Important Picture in Nineteenth-Century Theory of Knowledge", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie University (Spring - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "The Intersubjectivity of Physical Laws and Marburg School Philosophy of Science", The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, Marquette University (Spring - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy of Mathematics: A Rationalist Interpretation", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie University (Winter - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "Michael Friedman’s Account of the Rationality of Science (and why it doesn’t work)", Atlantic Regional Philosopher’s Association, Dalhousie University (Fall - 2013)
Edgar S. "Hermann Cohen on Representing Individuals", Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale, Yale University (Fall - 2012)
Edgar S. "Continuity and the Constitution of Individuals in Hermann Cohen's Prinzip der Infinitesimal-Methode", History of Philosophy of Science Society Meeting (Spring - 2012)
Edgar S. "Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer on the Constitution of Objects", American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (Spring - 2012)
Edgar S. "'Objectivity for Humanity': Experimental Physiology and Early Neo-Kantian Epistemology", Joint Philosophy of Science Workshop, Simon Fraser University (Spring - 2011)
Edgar Scott. "Physiological Subjectivity and Neo-Kantian Objectivity", Objectivity in Science (Spring - 2010)
Edgar S. "The Development of F.A. Lange's Theory of Things in Themselves", East Tennessee State University Department of Philosophy (Winter - 2010)
Edgar S. "F.A. Lange and the Neo-Kantian Origins of Positivism", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting (Winter - 2009)
Edgar S. "Objectivity and Individuating Objects", Neo-Kantianism Workshop, University of British Columbia (Spring - 2009)
Edgar S. "Herman Cohen, Objectivity, and the Possibility of a Revisable A Priori", University of British Columbia Department of Philosophy Colloquium (Winter - 2009)
Edgar S. "Herman Cohen and the Problem of Objectivity", University of Victoria Department of Philosophy (Winter - 2009)
Edgar S. "Empirical Psychology and the Marburg School on the Object of Psychology", History of Philosophy of Science Society Meeting (Spring - 2008)
Edgar S. "Empirical Conceptions of the Mind and Anti-Psychologism in the Late Nineteenth Century", History of Philosophy of Science Society Meeting (Spring - 2008)
Edgar S. "De-Psychologizing the Transcendental Deduction", North American Kant Society Midwest Division Meeting (Fall - 2005)
Edgar S. "Paul Natorp’s Argument for Anti-Psychologism", Canadian Society for the History and the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting (Spring - 2005)
Edgar S. "The Relationship between Mathematics and Physics in Leibniz", Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting (Spring - 2003)
Edgar Scott. "Williams on Scepticism and Objectivity", Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy Colloquium (Summer - 2000)

Other Publications

Edgar Scott. "Kant on Space: Part II (text and audio)"
Wi-Phi: Open Access Philosophy (Fall - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "Kant on Space: Part I (text and audio)"
Wi-Phi: Open Access Philosophy (Fall - 2014)
Edgar Scott. "Kant on Metaphysical Knowledge (text and audio)"
Wi-Phi: Open Access Philosophy (Fall - 2014)
Edgar S. "Hermann Cohen"
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (Spring - 2010)

Service: Institutional Committees

Member of the Philosophy Department Marshall Lecture Committee, 2014/03 - None (347)
Member of the Research Ethics Board, 2013/03 - None (Member)
Member of the Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, 2012/03 - None (Member)

Service: Professional or Disciplinary

Referee for the British Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy 2014/03 - 2014/03
Referee for Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press 2009/03 - 2009/03
Referee for the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2009/03 - 2009/03