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Modern Philosophy
Education:
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research:
My research work is in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, and focuses largely on issues in the metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion of the empiricist tradition.
Publications:
Books
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2023
Spectres of False Divinity: Hume’s Moral Atheism. Oxford University Press, 2010
The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant. Oxford University Press, 2004
Selected Articles
"The Meaning of Philo's Reversal," Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2023), 215-235
“Religion and the Perversion of Philosophy in Hume’s Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals,” in Jacqueline Taylor, ed., Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2020)
“Berkeley on Inconceivability and Impossibility,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98 (2019), 107-22
“Hobbes on the Function of Evaluative Speech,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (2016), 123-44
“Hobbes’s First Cause,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (2015), 647-67
“Hume’s Absolute Necessity,” Mind 123 (2014), 377-413
“Bayle and the Case for Actual Parts,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (2004), 145-64