Dr. G. Scott Davis
Lewis T. Booker Professor of Religion and Ethics
Chair, Religion
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies
117 North Court
Office: (804) 289-8331
Fax: (804) 287-6504
Research:
Ethics
Western Religious Thought
Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University
Selected Publications:
Religion and Justice in the War over Bosnia.New York: Routledge, 1996.
Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue: An Essay in Aristotelian Ethics. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1992.
"Comment on David Little." Journal of Religious Ethics 35 (2007): 165-170.
"Doing What Comes Naturally: Recent Work on Thomas Aquinas and the New Natural Law Theory." In John Inglis, ed., International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought: Aquinas. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2007 (reprint).
"Ethics." In Robert Segal, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, pp. 239-254. London: Blackwell, 2006.
"The Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Religion." Journal of Religious Ethics, 33 (2005): 659-668.
"Introduction." In John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, pp. vii-xiv. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005.
"Comparative Ethics and the Crucible of War." In Torkel Brekke, ed., The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations, pp. 1-36. London: Routledge/Curzon, 2005.
"Introduction." In G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, pp. ix-xvi. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005.
"Wittgenstein and the Recovery of Virtue." In Stout & MacSwain, eds., Grammar & Grace, pp. 175-196. London: SCM Press, 2004.
"Early Medieval Ethics." In Lawrence Becker, ed., A History of Western Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2003 (reprint).
"Pacifism as a Vocation." In Murphy, Kallenberg & Nation, eds., Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre, 2nd ed. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003 (reprint).
"Humanitarian Intervention and Just War Criteria." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 12 (2002): 63-94.
"Doing What Comes Naturally: Recent Work in the New Natural Law Theory." Religion 31 (2001): 407-433.
"A Whig History of Ethics: A Review of The Invention of Autonomy by J. B. Schneewind." Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (2001): 175-197.
"A Vindication of Theology: A Response to Alain Epp Weaver" Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (2001): 79-85.
"Humanist Ethics and Political Justice: Soto, Sepulveda, and the 'Affair of the Indies.'" Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 19 (1999) 193-212.
"Tradition and Truth in Christian Ethics: John Yoder and the Bases of Biblical Realism." In Hauerwas, Huebner, Huebner, & Nation, eds., Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder, pp. 278-30. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing, 1999.
"Research Note: Almain's Question at Vespers." Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (1999): 369-374.
"Pacifism as a Vocation." In Murphy, Kallenberg, & Nation, eds., Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre. Valley Forge, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 1997 (reprint).
"Conquest and Conscience: Francisco de Vitoria on Justice in the New World." Modern Theology 13 (1997): 475-500.
"Introduction: Interpreting Contemporary Conflicts." In Davis, ed., Religion and Justice in the War over Bosnia, pp. 1-21.
"Bosnia, the United States, and the Just War Tradition." In Davis, ed., Religion and Justice in the War over Bosnia, pp. 91-116.
"Philanthropy as a Virtue in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages." In J. B. Schneewind, ed., Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy, pp. 1-23. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
"Morality, Affectivity and Practical Knowledge." Modern Theology 10 (1994): 59-79.
"Early Medieval Ethics." In Lawrence Becker, ed., A History of Western Ethics, pp. 45-53. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1992 (reprint).
"Irony and Argument in Dialogues XII." Religious Studies 27 (1991): 239-257.
"`Et quod vis fac': Paul Ramsey and Augustinian Ethics" Journal of Religious Ethics 19 (1991): 31-69.
"The Ethics of Unbelief: Philosophical Responsibility and the `Ratio Anselmi'." In Essays on the Existence of God, ed. John R. Jacobson and Robert Lloyd Mitchell, pp. 115-129. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
"The Structure and Function of the Virtues in the Moral Theology of St. Augustine." Acts of the International Congress on Augustinian Studies, vol. 3, pp. 9-18. Rome, 1987.
"Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue." Soundings 70 (1987): 475-494.
"The Unity of the Virtues in Abelard's Dialogus." Proceedings of the XIth Annual Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, pp. 71-82. Villanova, Pa., 1986.
"Ethical Properties and Divine Commands." Journal of Religious Ethics 2 (1983): 280-300.