Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson

Assistant Professor of philosophy, University of British Columbia.

Contributor Biography

Scott Anderson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

He writes on ethics and political philosophy, especially problems concerning coercion, power, agency, sex and gender. He has written also on various applications of these matters, including prostitution, privacy, sexual autonomy, guilt, and torture.

He is the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on "coercion," and his articles have appeared in Ethics, the Monist, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, the Vermont Law Review, and Res Publica. He is also co-editing an anthology (with Martha Nussbaum) on torture and the law of war.

In 2007-08, he was the Law and Philosophy Fellow at The University of Chicago Law School.

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