Scott Hill
@scotthill.bsky.social
Philosopher at Wichita State University
At PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-hill
Wichita State University Philosophy: https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/philosophy/faculty/index.php
At PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-hill
Wichita State University Philosophy: https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/philosophy/faculty/index.php
Where does an ecosystem start and end? Our awesome colleague Colby Clark has the answer! Join us at 3:30 on Wednesday, December 3rd. Snacks will be provided.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Where does an ecosystem start and end? Our awesome colleague Colby Clark has the answer! Join us at 3:30 on Wednesday, December 3rd. Snacks will be provided.
My paper 'Hinduism, Leibniz, and Origin Essentialism' is forthcoming in the Journal of Indian Philosophy. A draft is available at PhilPapers.
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Scott Hill, Hinduism, Leibniz, and Origin Essentialism - PhilPapers
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November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My paper 'Hinduism, Leibniz, and Origin Essentialism' is forthcoming in the Journal of Indian Philosophy. A draft is available at PhilPapers.
philpapers.org/rec/HILHLA
philpapers.org/rec/HILHLA
My paper 'Earthly Life is Not Pointless for Universalists' is forthcoming in Religious Studies. An unofficial, uncorrected draft is available at PhilPapers.
Scott Hill, Earthly Life is Not Pointless for Universalists - PhilPapers
Some philosophers and theologians argue that if God will save everyone, then earthly life is pointless. No matter how good earthly life is, heaven would be far better. So there is ...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My paper 'Earthly Life is Not Pointless for Universalists' is forthcoming in Religious Studies. An unofficial, uncorrected draft is available at PhilPapers.
My paper, 'Why People Who Believe in God Fear Death' is now online at Analysis. academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
Why people who believe in God fear death
Abstract. People who report believing in God fear death. They also experience grief when someone they love dies. Philosophers and social scientists sometim
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July 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My paper, 'Why People Who Believe in God Fear Death' is now online at Analysis. academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...
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“An under-discussed aspect of striving to have conversations across serious disagreement is the personal value they can bring... I think they make me a better philosopher” — Elizabeth Barnes explains why, at Daily Nous
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The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a person with a disability making claims about disability, and ...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“An under-discussed aspect of striving to have conversations across serious disagreement is the personal value they can bring... I think they make me a better philosopher” — Elizabeth Barnes explains why, at Daily Nous
dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
My paper 'Classical Theism and Universalism' is forthcoming in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. An unofficial draft is available at PhilPapers. philpapers.org/rec/HILCTA-3...
Scott Hill, Classical Theism and Universalism - PhilPapers
In Not a Hope in Hell, James Dominic Rooney argues that universalism, the view that necessarily God will save everyone, is inconsistent with classical theism. I show that Rooney’s argument is ...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My paper 'Classical Theism and Universalism' is forthcoming in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. An unofficial draft is available at PhilPapers. philpapers.org/rec/HILCTA-3...
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Dear all,
Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.
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Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.
pt. 1/2
June 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Dear all,
Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.
pt. 1/2
Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers.
pt. 1/2
I can't believe some people are happy that this man is our president. As the tattoo on his forehead clearly shows, he is a member of the MS-13 gang.
April 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I can't believe some people are happy that this man is our president. As the tattoo on his forehead clearly shows, he is a member of the MS-13 gang.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it!
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The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish
YouTube video by Helen De Cruz
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March 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...
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New post (it's been a while) on Lady Li (Zhuangzi) and the badness of death
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Lady Li: Death and the maiden
Lady Li was a daughter of the border guard of Ai. When she was first captured and brought to Qin, she wept until tears drenched her collar. But when she got to the palace, sharing the king’s luxurious...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
New post (it's been a while) on Lady Li (Zhuangzi) and the badness of death
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helendecruz.substack.com/p/lady-li-de...
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#newarticle "Strawsonian Hard Determinism" by Scott Hill
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Strawsonian Hard Determinism - Volume 121, Issue 12, December 2024
Strawsonian accounts of moral responsibility are widely associated with opposition to hard determinism. However, it is only a historical accident that these views are bundled together. I show that Str...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#newarticle "Strawsonian Hard Determinism" by Scott Hill
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Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited, Scott Hill
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit engagement, I focus here on Hagen’s…
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit engagement, I focus here on Hagen’s…
Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited, Scott Hill
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit engagement, I focus here on Hagen’s defense of Charles Pigden’s diagnosis of the Blair example and Hagen’s argument that I have not met Pigden’s (2007) challenge. ... .
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March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom Revisited, Scott Hill
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit engagement, I focus here on Hagen’s…
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit engagement, I focus here on Hagen’s…
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What did you do on New Years Eve 1999?
January 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What did you do on New Years Eve 1999?
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Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom, Scott Hill
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen…
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen…
Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom, Scott Hill
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen says: Scott Hill … and Maarten Boudry and M. Giulia Napolitano … suggest that one reason to abandon the generalism/particularism distinction is that almost no one…
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December 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Particularism and the Conventional Wisdom, Scott Hill
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen…
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations against the conventional wisdom go wrong. Hagen…
WSU is hiring! AOS: Latin American Philosophy. If you know someone who works in the area, please share! philjobs.org/job/show/28422
Assistant Professor, Wichita State University
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December 21, 2024 at 2:31 AM
WSU is hiring! AOS: Latin American Philosophy. If you know someone who works in the area, please share! philjobs.org/job/show/28422
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My book Wonderstruck will come out in paperback edition soon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Wonderstruck
A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
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December 5, 2024 at 2:03 AM
My book Wonderstruck will come out in paperback edition soon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Today I taught Susan Haack’s paper on scientific integrity. In the paper, she discusses a way in which musicians can lack integrity. I said that the band Sugar Ray illustrates her point. The students didn’t know who Sugar Ray was. So I played the first 30 seconds or so of this. Laughter ensued.
Fly - Sugar Ray
YouTube video by Sugar Ray Videos
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November 27, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Today I taught Susan Haack’s paper on scientific integrity. In the paper, she discusses a way in which musicians can lack integrity. I said that the band Sugar Ray illustrates her point. The students didn’t know who Sugar Ray was. So I played the first 30 seconds or so of this. Laughter ensued.
Any good explanations/data about how studying philosophy might benefit engineering students?
November 18, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Any good explanations/data about how studying philosophy might benefit engineering students?
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Scott Hill. 2024. “Where Are the Generalists?” SERRC 13 (11): 30–33. wp.me/p1Bfg0-9hG.
Where Are the Generalists? Scott Hill
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November 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Scott Hill. 2024. “Where Are the Generalists?” SERRC 13 (11): 30–33. wp.me/p1Bfg0-9hG.
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Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about?
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
November 12, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about?
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!
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This is a great starter pack, thank you Emily!!
I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place.
I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know!
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I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know!
go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb
November 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
This is a great starter pack, thank you Emily!!