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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 Books |
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Consciousness,
Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought (New
York: Routledge: 2024). |
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Logic
Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (New York:
Routledge, 2022). |
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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). |
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Scholarly Editions |
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David Hume, Essays and Treatises on Philosophical
Subjects. Lorne Falkenstein and Neil McArthur (ed). Broadview editions.
Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2013. |
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David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Lorne Falkenstein (ed). Broadview editions. Peterborough: Broadview Press,
2011. |
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Presentation:
A Precis of Consciousness,
Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought 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 |
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