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Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. from Yale University
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Research Interests: early modern philosophy
Fellowships/Honors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence.
Selected Works:
Recent and forthcoming publications:
- “Hume’s Theory of Causation: Realist, Reductionist, or Projectivist?” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- “Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke on Extended Thinking Beings,” in Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, edited by Jon Miller (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming).
- “The Essence of the Body and the Part of the Mind That Is Eternal,” in A Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics, edited by Olli Koistinen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
- “Hume’s Theory of Ideas,” in The Blackwell Companion to Hume, edited by Elizabeth Radcliffe (Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).
- “Hume’s Theory of Causation: Inference, Judgment, and the Causal Sense,” in The Cambridge Companion to Hume’s Treatise, edited by Donald C. Ainslie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
- “Should Hume Have Been a Transcendental Idealist?” in Kant and his Predecessors, edited by Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).
- “Representation and Consciousness in Spinoza’s Naturalistic Theory of the Mind and Imagination,” in Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, edited by Charles Huenemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
- “Reasons to Act and Reasons to Believe: Naturalism and Rational Justification in Hume’s Philosophical Project,” Philosophical Studies 132.1 (January 2007): 1-16.
- “Hume’s Naturalistic Theory of Representation,” Synthese 152.3 (October 2006): 301-319.
- “Hume’s Conclusions in ‘Conclusion of this book’,” in The Blackwell Companion to Hume’s Treatise, edited by Saul Traiger (London: Blackwell, 2005): 151-175.
- “Philosophy and History in the History of Modern Philosophy,” in The Future for Philosophy, edited by Brian Leiter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004): 44-73.
- “‘A Small Tincture of Pyrrhonism’: Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume’s Science of Man,” in Pyrrhonian Skepticism, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004): 68-98.
- “Hume as ‘Man of Reason’ and ‘Women’s Philosopher’,” in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, edited by Charlotte Witt and Lilli Alanen (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004): 171-192.
- “Locke on Personal Identity, Consciousness, and ‘Fatal Errors’,” Philosophical Topics 31.1-2 (Spring/Fall 2003): 95-125.
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