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
William J. Bouwsma Fellowship, 2024–25
Professor of Philosophy, Manhattan College
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Sarah Scott is professor of philosophy at Manhattan College. She received her PhD in philosophy from The New School. Her areas of specialization are ethics, the history of philosophy, religious philosophy, and feminist philosophy. She is especially interested in historically marginalized figures and figures that defy current notions of philosophic genre. Scott is the editor of Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form and is the author of several articles and chapters on Martin Buber.
Scott’s current research focuses on women in the history of philosophy. While in residence at the National Humanities Center, she will be working on a book on the moral philosophy of forgotten nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe, exploring her account of women’s rights and animal welfare. This project incorporates material from recent fellowships Scott held working in the Cobbe collection at The Huntington Library and the animal rights and animal welfare collections at the North Carolina State University Libraries.
Selected Publications
- Scott, Sarah. “Dialogical Ethics.” In A Companion to Martin Buber, edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Forthcoming.
- Scott, Sarah. “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on Resistance.” In Teaching Women Philosophers: Ideas and Concepts from Women Philosophers’ Writings over 2000 Years, edited by Ruth Edith Hagengruber, 51–69. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024.
- Scott, Sarah. “Monologue Disguised as Dialogue: Almodóvar’s Talk to Her and Buber on the ‘Lovers’ Talk.’” In Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, 233–60. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022.
- Scott, Sarah. “From Genius to Taste: Martin Buber’s Aestheticism.” The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 25, no. 1 (2017): 110–30. Reprinted in Martin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy, edited by Sam Berrin Shonkoff, 151–70. Boston: Brill, 2018.
- Scott, Sarah. “Knowing Otherness: Martin Buber’s Appropriation of Nicholas of Cusa.” International Philosophical Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2015): 399–416.