Sarah Linda Scott, PHD

Sarah Linda Scott, PHD

Assistant Professor

Department : Philosophy

Email : sarah.scott@manhattan.edu

Phone : 718-862-7205

Office : DLS 434

Education

PHD, The New School
BA, Brown University

Research

  • Ethics, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy.
  • Current research focuses on the moral philosophy of Martin Buber and rethinking contemporary approaches to ethics by drawing on aesthetics and Medieval and Renaissance thought.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Manhattan College, 2012-Present.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Manhattan College, 2011-12.

Instructor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2008-11.
Courses Taught: Ethics and Society; Self and Society; Moral Issues in Business; 19th Century Philosophy; Existentialism; Philosophic Issues in Literature; Philosophy of Beauty; Knowledge, Reality and Values.

Teaching Fellow, The New School (Eugene Lang College and The New School for General Studies), 2007, 2010-11. Courses Taught: Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Existentialism.

Publications & Professional Activities

  • Translation: “On the History of the Problem of Individuation: Nicholas of Cusa and Jakob Böhme, by Martin Buber” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 33:2 (2012): 371-401.
  • “Buber.” The Continuum Companion to Existentialism. Ed. Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward. London & New York: Continuum, 2011. 334-335. 
  • “Martin Buber.” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/buber June 2010.
Conference Presentations:
  • "The Influence of Nicholas of Cusa on Martin Buber," The Eleventh Annual International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Conference, Cardiff University, June 14, 2013.
  • The Summit: Identity, Public Discourse and Democracy, The PEACE (Philosophy, Ethics, and Community Education) Project, Brooklyn College (CUNY), May 11, 2012.
  • “The Moral Significance of the Coincidence of Opposites in Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Buber,” Philosophy Workshop, The New School for Social Research, December 16, 2010.
  • “Dialogic Subjectivity in Plato and Martin Buber,” Graduate Students’ Conference: Breaking Out of Subjectivity, CREOR (Centre for Research on Religion), McGill University, March 7, 2008.

Other

Co-Developer and Faculty Advisor, The Manhattan College Film Society, 2011-Present.

Fellow, Manhattan College Center for Ethics , 2012-Present.

Courses Taught/Teaching

PHIL 150      Roots: Philosophy
PHIL 201      Ethics
PHIL 228      Philosophy & Film
PHIL 311      Augustine

PHIL 399      Special Topics in Philosophy: Great Women Philosophers