Charles E. Scott is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is the author of several books, including Boundaries in Mind , and two that have been awarded "Choice Book of the Year" The Question of Ethics , and On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics . He is also the coeditor of several volumes published by SUNY Press, including most recently Ethics and Essays on Heidegger and Continental Thought .