Scott Austin

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Scott Whiting Austin (March 10, 1953 - December 19, 2014 in College Station , Texas ) was an American historian of philosophy .

After earning a BA from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin , Austin taught at Boston University and then for 25 years in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University . He was a visiting fellow in the Princeton University Philosophy Department (1999) and the Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge (2004–2005). He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and has received various awards for academic teaching and academic self-government. In 2010 he was visiting professor at the Renmin University of China in Beijing and at the University of Szeged in Hungary.  

Austin mainly dealt with Parmenides and the comparison of pre-Socratic philosophy with Chinese philosophy (with Lao-Tse and the Tao ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Parmenides: Being, Bounds, and Logic. Yale University Press, 1986.
  • Parmenides, Double-Negation, and Dialectic. In: Victor Caston, Daniel W. Graham (Eds.), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alexander Mourelatos . Routledge, London and New York 2002, 95-100.
  • Parmenides and the History of Dialectic. Three essays. Parmenides Publishing, 2007.
  • Heraclitus, Parmenides, Lao-Tzu, and the Unity of All Things. In: Organon 42, 2010, 25–30, PDF .
  • Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Austin, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austin, Scott Whiting
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1953
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 2014
Place of death College Station , Texas