Scott Hendricks, Ph.D.

Acting Chair
Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

Phone: (508) 793-7551
Email: shendricks@clarku.edu

Brief Biography

Professor Hendricks received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001. He has taught at Clark since 2001 and holds the George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in Philosophy. During the Spring 2013 semester, Professor Hendricks will serve as the Acting Chairperson of the Philosophy Department.

Teaching and Research

Scholarship

Scott Hendricks's primary research interests concern issues within the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Presently he is focusing on the nature of so-called "phenomenal concepts" (our concepts of the qualitative aspects of one's own sensory experience) and the role they play in discussions about anti-physicalist arguments.

Teaching

The advanced undergraduate courses that Professor Hendricks teaches at Clark are Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Psychology. Each Fall semester, he enthuasically teaches Clark's Symbolic Logic course. He continues to cultivate his love for ancient Greek philosophy by offering an undergraduate seminar on Plato's Republic to incoming first-year students. Recently, Professor Hendricks co-taught an advanced undergraduate seminar with Professor Betsy Huang of the English Department entitled "Science Fiction and the Mind of the Other."

In Spring 2013, Professor Hendricks is teaching the second course in the Logic sequence: Advanced Logic. The course will review set theory, metatheoretical results (such as soundness and completeness of both propositional and first-order logic), and Gödel's incompleteness theorems. 

Selected Publications

"The Frame Problem and Theories of Belief" Philosophical Studies 129: 2 (May 2006), pp. 313-333.

"Demons and the Isolation Argument" Philosophical Quarterly 55 (July 2005), pp. 403-418.