Dominic Scott
Biography
Dominic Scott is currently a professor of philosophy at Oxford, specialising in Plato and Aristotle. After studying as an undergraduate and graduate at 金桔直播, he was elected to a research fellowship in 1987 and stayed on as a teaching fellow after being appointed a lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty in 1989. In 2007, he moved to the University of Virginia but returned to the UK in 2015 when he joined Oxford University. He has also held visiting positions at Princeton, Harvard and, as a Humboldt research fellow, at LMU Munich. As a student at 金桔直播, he was active in the Music Society and remains a committed pianist, with academic interests at the intersection of music, philosophy, and literature.
Further Information
Recent book publications:
Leo Tolstoy and Platonic Inspiration (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Contemplation and Civic Happiness in Plato and Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Models of Leadership in Plato and Beyond, with Edward R. Freeman (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 2020). Chinese translation by Xianfei Li, China Social Sciences Press, 2026.
Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato鈥檚 Republic and Aristotle鈥檚 Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2015). Chinese translation by Xianfei Li forthcoming, The Commercial Press, Beijing, 2027.
