Scott Cameron
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Fordham University, 1996
Specialties: Hermeneutics, Environmental Philosophy
Special Interests: Environmental restoration as modeling a more promising human/nature relation.
Current Projects: My main current focus is a book on environmental hermeneutics, i.e., how human ways of knowing and perceiving the natural world shape what we take that world to be.
Selected Publications:
"Wilderness and the City: Not Such a Long Drive After All," Environmental Philosophy 3 (2006): 28-33.
"The Genesis and Justification of Feminist Standpoint Theory in Hegel and Lukacs," Dialogue and Universalism 15 (2005): 19-41.
"Can We Afford the Tough Love of Liberals? A Deflationary Look at Garrett Hardin's Lifeboat Ethic," Environmental Philosophy 2 (2005): 30-43.
"Seeing Through Technology: Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the Role of Hermeneutic Experience," in Andrzej Wiercinski (ed.), Between Description and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology (Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 1005), 349-59.
Contact Information:
Phone: 310-338-2858
Email: scameron@lmu.edu