Blake D. Scott is Junior Professor (Assistant Professor) in the Seminar für Allgemeine Rhetorik. Working at the intersection of philosophy and rhetoric, his research explores the theory and practice of argumentation and the social conditions that promote—or more often, inhibit—its reasonable exercise. His main research areas include argumentation theory, social philosophy, and contemporary European thought, with a particular interest in the New Rhetoric project of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. His other research interests include hermeneutics (especially Paul Ricoeur), Frankfurt School critical theory, and the philosophy of the city.
Before coming to Tübingen, he was Research Associate at KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy in Belgium, where he also obtained his PhD in 2023 under the co-supervision of Ernst Wolff and Christopher Tindale (Windsor). He holds a BA (Hons.) and MA from the University of Windsor in Canada and a Research MA from KU Leuven, all in philosophy. He was born in Windsor and grew up in the nearby town of Leamington, Ontario.
Blake D. Scott is the author of The Rhetoricity of Philosophy: Audience in Perelman and Ricoeur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate (Routledge, 2025), in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series. His articles have appeared in Philosophy & Rhetoric, Argumentation, Informal Logic, Études ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies, Analecta Hermeneutica, and Sartre Studies International. His article “What Makes an Argument Strong? Contrastivism in the New Rhetoric” received the 2023 Essay Prize from the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking.
