LORNE FALKENSTEIN

 

Professor Emeritus (2019)

 

Philosophy Department

Western University


 

 

 lfalkens@uwo.ca

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

18th Century Philosophy with an emphasis on Hume, Reid, Berkeley, and Condillac and on issues of temporal experience, spatial perception, scepticism and determinism.

I dabble in formal logic.

I was once interested in Kant. I am no longer interested in Kant. But what I learned from working on Kant has since been extended to other figures, principally Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac.

Current Research

I am currently focused on topics that come up in connection with Hume's thought about human perceptual experience: consciousness, time and temporal experience, colour, and the distinction between sensing qualia like pain or colour and perceiving things like apples and empty spaces.

Awards

2006: My paper, "Condillac's Paradox" was judged by the editors to have been the best paper published in The Journal of the History of Philosophy in 2005.

1997: Raymond Klibansky Award (for my book, Kant's Intuitionism). Awarded annually to the best book published in English in the Humanities under a subvention from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.

University Student Council Teaching Honour Roll in the years 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2010-11, 2007-8, 2004-5, and 2003-4.

1999: Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching. Awarded annually to four teachers at Western selected from a pool nominated by their faculties on the basis of a review of a full teaching dossier and letters from colleagues and students.

Service Highlights

Co-director of the 46th International Hume Conference, Reno, Nevada, 22-26 July, 2019.

Co-director, 33rd International Hume Conference, Koblenz, Germany, 9-12 August, 2006.

2003-8: Member, Executive Committee of the Hume Society.

2003-8: Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Philosophy

 

Selected Publications

Books

 



Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought (New York: Routledge: 2024).

Logic Works : A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic book cover

Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (New York: Routledge, 2022).

 

Kant’s Intuitionism

 

 

Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995). Corrected edition reprinted in paperback (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).

Scholarly Editions

 

David Hume, Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects. Lorne Falkenstein and Neil McArthur (ed). Broadview editions. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2013.

 

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Lorne Falkenstein (ed). Broadview editions. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2011.

 

Selected Articles: Hume

 

2024. "Demea's Departure Revisited." In Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. A Philosophical Appraisal, edited by Kenneth Williford, 155-69. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315110691-12

2023. "The Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind." In Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century II: Method, Metaphysics, Mind, Language, edited by Aaron Garrett and James A. Harris, 225-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807940.003.0005

2021. "Moral Disagreement." In Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Guide, edited by Esther Engels Kroeker and Willem Lemmens, 238-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108525497.013

2017. "Hume on Temporal Experience." In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience, edited by Ian Phillips, 42-52. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315269641

2015. "The Ideas of Space and Time and Spatial and Temporal Ideas in Treatise 1.2." In The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise, edited by Donald C. Ainslie and Annemarie Butler, 31-68. New York: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CCO9781139016100.005

2013. "Hume on the Idea of a Vacuum." Hume Studies 39: 131-68. DOI: 10.1353/hms.2014.0006

2009. "Hume on 'Genuine,' 'True,' and 'Rational' Religion." Eighteenth Century Thought 4: 171-201.

2006. "Space and Time." In The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, edited by Saul Traiger, 59-76. Malden, MA: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9780470776377.ch4

2002. "Hume and Reid on the Perception of Hardness." Hume Studies 28: 27-48. DOI: 10.1353/hms.2011.0171

2001. "Humean Contiguity." History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (2001): 279-96.

Co-author: David Welton.

1997. "Hume on Manners of Disposition and the Ideas of Space and Time." Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 79: 179-201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agph.1997.79.2.179

1997. "Naturalism, Normativity, and Scepticism in Hume's Account of Belief." Hume Studies 23: 29-72. DOI: 10.1353/hms.2011.0082

 

Selected Articles: Reid

 

2023. "The Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind." In Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century II: Method, Metaphysics, Mind, Language, edited by Aaron Garrett and James A. Harris, 225-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807940.003.0005

2018. "Reid's Critique of Berkeley's Position on the Inverted Image." Journal of Scottish Philosophy 16: 175-91. DOI: 10.3366/jsp.2018.0196

2016. "Reid's Account of the Geometry of Visibles: Some Lessons from Helmholtz." Topoi 35: 485-510 DOI: 10.1007/s11245-015-9337-0.

2004. "Reid and Smith on Vision." The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 2 (2004): 103-118. DOI: 10.3366/jsp.2004.2.2.103

2000. "Reid's Account of Localization," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61: 305-28.

 

Selected Articles: Temporal Experience and Spatial Perception

 

2017. "Hume on Temporal Experience." In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience, edited by Ian Phillips, 42-52. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315269641

2016. "Reid's Account of the Geometry of Visibles: Some Lessons from Helmholtz." Topoi 35: 485-510 DOI: 10.1007/s11245-015-9337-0.

2014. "Theories of Perception I: Berkeley and his recent predecessors." In The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, edited by Aaron Garrett, 338-59. London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315815558.ch14

2014. "Theories of Perception II: After Berkeley." In The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, edited by Aaron Garrett, 360-80. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315815558.ch15

2013. "Classical Empiricism." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke, 102-19. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118522097.ch7

 

Selected Articles: Condillac

 

2005. "Condillac's Paradox." Journal of the History of Philosophy 43: 403-35. DOI: 10.1353/hph.2005.0158

 

Selected Articles: Berkeley

 

1994. "Intuition and Construction in Berkeley's Account of Visual Space." Journal of the History of Philosophy 32: 63-84. DOI: 10.1353/hph.1994.0008

 

Selected Articles: Kant

 

1998. "A Double Edged Sword? Kant's Refutation of Mendelssohn's Proof of the Immortality of the Soul and its implications for his theory of matter." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29: 561-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0039-3681(98)00022-3

1998. "Hume's Answer to Kant." Nous: 331-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/0029-4624.00103

1991. "Kant's Account of Intuition." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21: 165-193. 10.1080/00455091.1991.10717242

1991. "Kant, Mendelssohn, Lambert, and the Subjectivity of Time." Journal of the History of Philosophy 29: 227-51. DOI: 10.1353/hph.1991.0046

1990. "Was Kant a Nativist?" Journal of the History of Ideas 51: 573-97. DOI: 10.2307/2709647

1990. "Kant's Account of Sensation." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20: 63-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1990.10717209

1989. "Kant's Argument for the Non-spatiotemporality of Things in Themselves." Kant-Studien 80: 265-83. DOI: 10.1515/kant.1989.80.1-4.265

1989. "Kant's First Argument in the Metaphysical Expositions." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress, vol. II/1, edited by Gerhard Funke and Thomas M. Seebohm, 219-27. Washington: University Press of America. DOI: 10.5840/kant198519892162

1986. "Spaces and Times: A Kantian Response." Idealistic Studies 16 (1986): 1-11. DOI: 10.5840/idstudies19861612

 

Last revised: 04 January 2024