Damion Kareem Scott

Adjunct Instructor

Damion Scott earned his BA from New York University, MAs from both Birkbeck College at the University of London and Columbia University, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research interests are in Ontology, Aesthetics, Pragmatism and East Asian and Africana Philosophical thought.

Specifically, in Africana Philosophy, Scott is engaged in research in the history and geography of Africana Diasporic cultural values. His related work in metaphysics engages the ontology of personhood and social ontology via critical examination of the semantics and phenomenology of race, ethnicity, humanism and transhumanism and a defense of a pragmatic understanding of the value of speculative reason. In aesthetics, he explores the value of art arising out of oppression with particular attention to art in contexts of Black Futurism, especially in science fictional film and electronic music.

Scott is the author of ‘Afrofuturism and Black Futurism:  Some Ontological and Semantic Considerations’ in the anthology Critical Black Futures, Palgrave MacMillan Press.  

A native New Yorker, in addition to studying philosophy in New York and London, Scott has also lived in Kingston, Jamaica, Dallas, Texas, Tokyo, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand for several years combined. 
 

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