B.A. in Philosophy and
Political Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 2001
M.A. in Philosophy, Tulane University, 2006
Email:
scourtla@tulane.edu
Office:
105H Newcomb Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3380
Academic Interests:
- Ethics
- Metaethics
- Political Philosophy
- Sociobiology
- Thomas Hobbes and Liberal Theory
Selected Publications
- With Gerald Gaus, "Liberalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2007 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2007/entries/liberalism/
- “Public Reason and the Hobbesian Dilemma”, Hobbes Studies Vol. 20 (2007), 63-92.
- “Lomasky on Practical Reason”, Reason Papers, Issue 29 (Fall 2007), 83-104.
- “Determinism”, American Philosophy: An
Encyclopedia, John Lach & Robert B Talisse (ed.), Routledge (2008),
173-5.
- “Subjectivism”, American Philosophy: An
Encyclopedia, John Lach & Robert B Talisse (ed.), Routledge (2008),
741-2.
- “Compatibilism”, American Philosophy: An
Encyclopedia, John Lach & Robert B Talisse (ed.), Routledge (2008),
121-3.
