Charles Scott

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion
• Existential Thought

Books

• Beyond Philosophy: Nietzsche, Foucault, Anzaldúa, co-authored with Nancy Tuana, Indiana University Press
• Living With Indifference, Indiana University Press
• The Lives of Things, Indiana University Press
• The Time of Memory, SUNY Press
• On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics, Indiana University Press
• The Question of Ethics, Indiana University Press
• The Language of Difference, Humanities Press International and Macmillan, London
• Boundaries in Mind: A Study of Immediate Awareness Based in Psychotherapy, Scholars Press and Crossroads Press

 Recent Articles

• “Interpreting Silence?” Research in Phenomenology, forthcoming.
• “Border Arte Philosophy: Altogether Beyond Philosophy,” co-author with Nancy Tuana,  The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2018.
• “Words, Silence, Experience:  Derrida’s Unheimlich Responsibility.”  Research in Phenomenology, Spring, 2017.
• “Nepantla: Writing (from) the In-Between, co-author with Nancy Tuana, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2017.
• “Lives of Idioms,” Epoché 17 (1), 2017.
• “livingdying,” Mosaic, 2016.
• “An Infused Dialogue: Part One: Bodies, Fusions, Indifference.” Nancy Tuana, Charles Scott, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2016.
• “An Infused Dialogue:  Part Two: The Power of Love Without Objectification.”  Charles Scott, Nancy Tuana, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2016.
• “Technology, Essence, and Everyday Living,” Research in Phenomenology, 2015
• “Differences, Borders, Fusions,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015.
• “Elemental,” Epoché, 2014.
• “Force of Life and Faith: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard,”  New Nietzsche Studies, 2014 .
• "Cultural Borders," Research in Phenomenology, 2013.
• “Sensibility, Violence, Conduct,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2013.
• "Speaking of Mystery: An Interpretation," Research in Phenomenology, 2012.
• "Freedom and Oppression in North America," epoché, 2012.
• “The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy’s Formation and ‘Postmodern’ Thought: The First Twenty-five Years," Journal of Speculative Philosophy (50th anniversary edition), 2012
• "Ethics at the Boundary," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2011.
• "The Betrayal of Democratic Space," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2010.
• "Foucault, Genealogy, and Ethics," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2009.
• "Sensibility and Democratic Space," Research in Phenomenology, 2008.
• “Phenomenological Ethics," Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 37, 2007.

Works in Progress

• A book on silence and silences
• A paper with Nancy Tuana on hyper-activism

Fellowships and Awards

• NEH Fellowship
• Danforth Interdisciplinary Fellowship
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
• Ford Venture Summer Grant
• Vanderbilt Senior Research Fellowship
• Diversity Initiative Award, Vanderbilt University

Employment

• Dean of Berkeley College and Instructor in Philosophy, Yale University
• Assistant, Associate, Professor, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
• Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Research Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt U.
• Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt
• Director, University Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt
• Chair, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt
• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University
• Interim Head, Department of Philosophy, Penn State University
• Professor of Philosophy, Penn State