H. Scott Hestevold
- Office: Room 335 ten Hoor Hall
- Spring 2008 Office Hours: MW, 2 -- 3
- Phone: (205) 348-1912
- Fax: (205) 348-7904
- Email: shestevold@bama.ua.edu
H. Scott Hestevold, Professor, joined the Department in 1978 with a Ph.D. from Brown University.
His primary research interests involve analytic metaphysics in particular, problems involving time and identity. He is also interested in the nature of mercy, pity, and other such concepts related to moral psychology.
His publications include: "Disjunctive Desert" (American Philosophical Quarterly, 1983); "Passage and the Presence of Experience" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1990); "The Concept of Religion" (Public Affairs Quarterly, 1991); "On Passage and Persistence" with (William R. Carter, American Philosophical Quarterly, 1994), "Dependent Particulars: Holes, Boundaries, and Surfaces" in (Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings ed. by Steven D. Hales; Wadsworth, 1999); "Pity" (Journal of Philosophical Research, 2004); and "Presentism: Through Thick and Thin" (forthcoming Pacific Philosophical Quarterly)
Professor Hestevold is currently working on essays about mercy and compassion and(with W.R. Carter) about stage theories of persistence vis à vis the nature of time and change.