Scott Robert Sehon (born 1963) is an American philosopher and the Joseph E. Merrill Professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College.

He is the author of Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency and Explanation (MIT University Press, 2005) in which he takes a controversial, non-causalist view of action explanation,[1][2] Free Will and Action Explanation: a Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Socialism: A Logical Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Sehon has also published in the area of philosophy of religion, with a particular focus on the problem of evil[3] and whether or not religious faith is a necessary foundation for morality.

[4] In his later work, he has criticized anti-communism and American conservative arguments against socialism.

His thesis was titled: "Action Explanation and the Nature of Mental States."