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American philosopher
Scott Robert Sehon (born 1963) is an American
philosopher and the Joseph E. Merrill Professor of philosophy at
Bowdoin College . His primary work is in the fields of
philosophy of mind ,
metaphysics ,
epistemology , philosophy of action, and the
free will debate. He is the author of Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency and Explanation (
MIT University Press, 2005) in which he takes a controversial, non-causalist view of action explanation
[1]
[2] and Free Will and Action Explanation: a Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account (
Oxford University Press , 2016).
Sehon has also published in the area of
philosophy of religion , with a particular focus on
the problem of evil
[3] and whether or not religious faith is a necessary foundation for morality.
[4] In his later work, he has
criticized
anti-communism and American conservative arguments against
socialism .
[5]
[6]
[7]
Education
Sehon received his B.A. in philosophy from
Harvard University , where he worked with
Warren D. Goldfarb , and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at
Princeton University , where he worked with Mark Johnston and
Harry Frankfurt . His thesis was titled: "Action Explanation and the Nature of Mental States."
Bibliography
Books
Articles
“Davidson’s Challenge to the Non-Causalist”, with Guido Löhrer, American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 53, no. 1 (2016): 85-96.
Action Explanation and The Free Will Debate: How Incompatibilist Arguments Go Wrong , Philosophical Issues , Vol.22, No. 1 (2012): 351-368.
A Flawed Conception of Determinism in the Consequence Argument. Analysis Vol. 71, No. 1 (2011):30-38.
Teleology and Degrees of Freedom,
Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie , Volume 17:1 (2008): 123-144
An Argument Against the Causal Theory of Action Explanation, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 60:1(2000): 67-85
Connectionism and the Causal Theory of Action Explanation, Philosophical Psychology , 11:4(1998): 511-531
Natural-Kind Terms and the Status of Folk Psychology, American Philosophical Quarterly , 34:3(1997): 333-344
Deviant Causal Chains and the Irreducibility of Teleological Explanation, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78:2 (1997): 195-213
Teleology and the Nature of Mental States, American Philosophical Quarterly , 31 (1994): 63-72
Dementors, Horcruxes, and Immortality: The Soul in Harry Potter ,” in Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles , William Irwin and Gregory Bassham, eds. Wiley (2010).
“Teleological Explanation,” in
Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Action , Timothy O’Connor and Constantine Sandis, eds. Blackwell. (2010).
References
^ See Carol Slater's review in Psyche,
http://www.theassc.org/files/assc/2662.pdf
^ See
Carl Ginet 's review in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2008.00171.x/abstract;jsessionid=F68FC7CEB981778619CF5894975E5A13.d02t03
^ Scott Sehon, "The Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism Leads to Moral Paralysis"
http://philpapers.org/rec/SEHTPO
^ What Does it Mean to be Good? Two Scholars, Christian and Secular, Share Their Views,
http://vimeo.com/23273288
^ Ghodsee, Kristen R.; Sehon, Scott; Dresser, Sam, ed. "
The merits of taking an anti-anti-communism stance ". Aeon , March 22, 2018.
^ Scott Sehon, "
No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists ," Jacobin Magazine , October 9, 2020.
^ Scott Sehon,
"Two Problems with the Nonaggression Principle."
Mises Institute , March 4, 2021.
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