Susan Schoenbohm
Senior Lecturer
Program Coordinator for the Vanderbilt Center for Ethics
Susan Schoenbohm is Program Coordinator at the Center and has an appointment as a Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy department. She has a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield MN, and an MA and PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt. After receiving her PhD, she taught at the University of the South and then, in 1993, moved with Charles Scott (her spouse) to the Pennsylvania State University where she taught until she moved back to Nashville in June of 2005. Her teaching and research interests include Ancient Greek and ancient Asian philosophies, contemporary continental philosophy and women's studies. She is very interested in questions and issues related to justice, technology and the quality of life. She is particularly concerned with the distinction between intrinsically and extrinsically valuable activities and the respective motivations for undertaking them. She recently completed a book entitled “Living For Its Own Sake: Justice, Technology and Intrinsically Valuable Activities.” An article entitled “The Meaning of Politeia: Dikaiosune (Justice) as the Telos of Techne” will appear in the summer of 2006 in the journal Philosophy in the Contemporary World. She is teaching a first year student seminar entitled “Classical Conceptions of Living Well” fall semester 2006.
