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Dr. David Scott, Ph.D., Ph.D., serves as Professor in Department of Humanities, and the Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD. His scholarly trajectory began with a fellowship in painting from the University of Tulsa. He decided to pursue a different path and undertook a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Chicago, followed by the attainment of a Doctorate in English Literature from the University of Virginia and a Doctorate in Philosophy (with a specialized concentration in French and German continental philosophy) from the University of Memphis.
Dr. Scott’s areas of expertise encompass phenomenology, particularly the works of Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas, as well as post-structuralist thought, with a principal interest in Deleuze and Foucault. His research traverses the intersections of epistemology and ontology, with a particular emphasis on Spinoza, and extends into the socio-political realms of race and postcolonial thought. He engages deeply with the American Black Radical Tradition, as articulated by Cedric Robinson, in a dialogue that spans literature, art, and philosophy—seeking to reformulate and critique post-structuralist heritage through the lens of Critical Theory.
Dr. Scott is the author of two works: "Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide" (2014, Edinburgh Press)—the first English-language monograph dedicated to this philosopher, and the edited volume "Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism" (2017, Bloomsbury).
Presently, Dr. Scott is immersed in several book projects. Deleuze and Blackness, will be published 2027 by Edinburg Press.
Dr. Scott is currently a Fellow at the Hoffberger Institute for Ethical Engagement.
Books:
Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation — A Critical Introduction and Guide: A Logic of Individuation, Edinburgh Press, 2014.
“Difficult” Humanism: the figure of the Migrant in Contemporary French Philosophy, Edinburgh Press (under contract, Edinburg University Press, 2026—contract extended).
Edited Works:
Deleuze and Blackness, edited with Ryan Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, under contract, expected publication 2026.
Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Press, 2017 (sole editor).
Book Chapters:
(retitled): “Through the Blackness of the Glass Darkly: Facing Deleuze and Guattari,” Deleuze and Guattari and Blackness, edited David Scott and Ryan Johnson, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026.
“Birth of the Clinic and Raymond Roussel,” Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism, 2017.
“Introduction: Foucault’s Modernisms,” Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism, 2017.
“Sub Specie Durationis, Or the Free Necessity of Life’s Creativeness in Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution,” Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism, ed. S.E. Gontarski, Laci Mattison, and Paul Ardoin, Continuum, 2013.
“Intuition, a Metaphysical Method,” Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism, ed. S.E. Gontarski, Laci Mattison, and Paul Ardoin, Continuum, 2013.
Articles/Translations
“La voix-pas-claire: Silences voices timbre our neighbor,” forthcoming Festshriff dedicated to Leonard Lawlor, edited Ted Toadvine (Springer).
“Faciality, Phases, Faces: Zanele Muholi,” forthcoming in volume on Deleuze and Guattari and Blackness, edited by Ryan Johnson (Edinburg UP).
“How Do We Recognize Deleuze and Simondon are Spinozists?” Deleuze Studies 11.4 (2017) 555-579.
Translation of Gilles Deleuze’s “Supplement” to David Hume, Sa vie, Son oeuvre, Sa philosophie, by André Cresson and Gilles Deleuze, Angelaki 16. 2 (2011) 181-88.
Introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s “Supplement” to David Hume, Sa vie, Son oeuvre, Sa philosophie, by André Cresson and Gilles Deleuze, Angelaki 16.2 (2011) 175-80.
“Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze ask ‘What is Philosophy?’—The Naïveté of Thought and the Innocence of the Question,” Chiasmi International 13: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty (Paris: Vrin, 2011) 259-83.
“The ‘Concept of Time’ and the ‘Being of the Clock’: Bergson, Einstein, Heidegger, and the Interrogation of the Temporality of Modernism,” Continental Philosophy Review (2006) 39: 183-213.
Book Reviews/Essays:
Book Review/Essay, “Anti-Oedipus, A Practical Metaphysics?,” The European Legacy (July 2009) 463-66.
Book Review/Essay, The Priority of Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense by Sean Bowden, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32132-thepriority-of-events-deleuze-s-logic-of-sense/.
Book Review/Essay, “On Beyond the Boundary: Arvydas Šliogeris’ Failure,” The European Legacy 17.6 (October 2013) 827-829.
Book Review, Starting Descartes, by C.G. Prado, The European Legacy 17.2 (2012) 274.
Book Review, Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time, by Jay Lampert, The European Legacy 21.4 (2016) 447-448.
Coordinator of Philosophy, Department of Humanities
Senator, Faculty Senate
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Memphis, awarded 2008.
M.A. Philosophy, University of Memphis, 2003-2005.
Ph.D. English Literature, The University of Virginia, awarded 1999.
M.A. English Literature, The University of Virginia, 1990-1992.
B.A. English Literature, The University of Chicago, 1987-1990.
Fine Art (Fine Art: Painting), University of Tulsa, 1986-1987.
Fellow at the Hoffberger Institute for Ethical Engagement
At-Large Executive Committee Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, elected October 2025
American Philosophical Association
North Eastern Philosophy of Education Society (NEPES)
Collegium Phenomenologicum, Citti di Castello, Italy, July 2003
Dr. Scott’s areas of expertise encompass phenomenology, particularly the works of Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas, as well as post-structuralist thought, with a principal interest in Deleuze and Foucault. His research traverses the intersections of epistemology and ontology, with a particular emphasis on Spinoza, and extends into the socio-political realms of race and postcolonial thought. He engages deeply with the American Black Radical Tradition, as articulated by Cedric Robinson, in a dialogue that spans literature, art, and philosophy—seeking to reformulate and critique post-structuralist heritage through the lens of Critical Theory.
- Recognition of Achievement in Teaching, 2026
- 25 years Service Award, 2026
- Research Fellow (2023-current), Hoffberger Center for Ethical Engagement.
- University Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2007.
- Completion of Ancient Philosophy Doctoral Comprehensive Exam with Distinction, 2004.
- President’s Minority Fellowship, University of Memphis, 2003.
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