Department of Philosophy
385 Millett Hall
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glen Highway
Dayton, OH 45435
(937) 775-3354
scott.wilson@wright.edu
Last Updated: 25 July 2007

Academic Appointments

Education

Areas of Specialization

Normative Ethics
Applied Ethics

Areas of Competence

Metaethics, History of Ethics, Philosophy of Law

Publications

• "Peer Review Assignments", Teaching Philosophy, 29 (2006): 327-42..
• "Respect for Utilitarianism: A Response to Regan's 'Receptacles of Value' Objection", Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, 3 (2006).
  
• "The Species-Norm Account of Moral Status", Between the Species: An Electronic Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals, 5 (2005).
• "Staying Within the Family: The Sopranos and and the Ethics of Partiality" in Richard Green & Peter Vernezze, eds., The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press), 2004.
• "Indirect Duties to Animals", The Journal of Value Inquiry, 36 (2002): 15-25.
• "Carruthers and the Argument from Marginal Cases", The Journal of Applied Philosophy, 18 (2001): 135-47.
• "Animals and Ethics", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy , <http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/>.

Current Research

• "The Value of Pleasure"

Presentations

• April 2007: "Is Poverty a Moral Issue?", WSU Honors Dialogue.
• January 2007: "Is Poverty a Moral Issue?", WSU Honors Program Conference on Poverty.
• October 2005: Comments on Christopher Ciocchetti's, "Emotions, Retributivism, and Punishment", Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting.
• April 2005: "Animals, Moral Status, and Normal Functioning", Wright State University, CoLA Lecture Series.
• April 2003: "Contractualism, Direct Moral Status, and Animals", Mississippi Philosophical Association Meeting.
• March 2003: "The Species-Norm Account of Moral Status", East Carolina University (NC).
• June 2002: "Moral Status and Normal Functioning", West Chester University (PA).
• March 2002: "A New Argument Against Hedonism", University of Mississippi.

Honors

1999: Paul Weinpahl Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Philosophy, University of California-Santa Barbara.

Professional Activity

• 2007: Anonymous Reviewer: Environmental Values; Manuscript Revieiwer: Blackwell Publishing
• 2006: Anonymous Reviewer: The Journal of Applied Philosophy; Textbook Reviewer, Routledge Press; Textbook Reviewer, Thomson/Wadsworth Press.
• 2005: Anonymous Reviewer, The Journal of Applied Philosophy; Anonymous Reviewer, The Journal of Moral Philosophy; Chairperson, Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting
• 2004: Anonymous Reviewer, The Journal of Moral Philosophy.
• 2003: Anonymous Reviewer, Society for Skeptical Studies.
• 2002: Anonymous Reviewer, Mississippi Philosophical Association Meeting; Textbook Reviewer, Oxford University Press.
• 2001: Chairperson, Southwestern Philosophical Society Meetings.

Professional Affiliations

American Philosophical Association
Society for Skeptical Studies
Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

Teaching Experience

Wright State University: 2003-present (Assistant Professor)

PHL 204: Great Books of Philosophy
PHL 211: Introduction to Ethics
PHL 311: Ethics
PHL 312: Moral Problems (The Moral Status of Animals)
PHL 378: Ethics and Medicine
PHL 399: Freedom, Responsibility, and Death
PHL 399: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
PHL 399: Problems of Knowledge
PHL 411: Advanced Ethical Theory
PHL 414: The Philosophy of Law
PHL 472: The Philosophy of Social Science

The University of Mississippi: 2002-2003 (Visiting Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor)

PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 103: Logic-Critical Thinking
PHIL 617: Meta-Ethics (Graduate Seminar)

Austin Community College: 2001 (Adjunct Instructor)

PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy

The University of California-Santa Barbara: 1998-2001 (Teaching Associate)

PHIL 3: Critical Thinking
PHIL 4: Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 6: Business Ethics
PHIL 7: Biomedical Ethics

Santa Barbara City College: 1999-2000 (Adjunct Instructor)

PHIL 101: Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 111: Critical Thinking and Writing in Philosophy