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
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)
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)
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