Sarah Scott (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
The Moral Philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe: Forgotten Anglo-Irish Philosopher and Women’s Rights and Animal Welfare Activist
Manhattan College
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Sarah Scott researched and drafted several chapters of her book, Frances Power Cobbe. She also wrote an article, “Frances Power Cobbe: Early Kantian Ethicist and Anti-Vivisection Activist,” which is currently under review.
Scott revised and edited two chapters for edited volumes:
- “Martin Buber’s Ethics of Perception,” located in A Companion to Martin Buber, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in press 2025)
- “The Body That Questions: Thinking Through Buber’s Philosophy of Embodiment with King and Fanon,” forthcoming in Women Writing Buber, ed. Yemima Hadad, Cedric Cohen-Skalli, and Ronen Pinkas (Boston: Brill, 2026)
Her chapter “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on Resistance” appeared in Teaching Women Philosophers: Ideas and Concepts from Women Philosophers’ Writings over 2000 Years, ed. Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024).