Education
Ph.D. University
of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Philosophy, May, 2001
Dissertation:
“Contextualism and Skepticism about the External World”
Advisor: Albert Casullo
B.A. Auburn University, Philosophy and English,
May, 1994, magna cum laude
Area
of Specialization
Epistemology
Hume’s epistemology
Areas
of Competence
History of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Wittgenstein
Experience
August 2008-present Associate Professor (non-tenured)
Department of
Philosophy
California State
University, Northridge
August 2003-August 2008 Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
California State
University, Northridge
August 2002-July 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
August 2001-July 2002 Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
California State
University, Fresno
June 2001-July 2001 Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
August 1995-May 2001 Teaching assistant
Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Publications
Articles
· “A Warranted-Assertability Defense of A Moorean Response to Skepticism,” forthcoming in Acta Analytica.
· “Solving the Problem of Easy Knowledge,” forthcoming in The Philosophical Quarterly.
· “Modal and Anti-Luck Epistemology,” commissioned for the Routledge Companion to Epistemology, edited by Duncan Pritchard and Sven Bernecker (Routledge).
- “What We Can Learn
From Skeptical Arguments” (tentative title), commissioned for a special
issue of Iris: European Journal of
Philosophy and Public Debate, to be edited by Patrizia Pedrini, on the
subject of contemporary anti-skepticism.
·
“A
Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002): 148-163.
·
“Relevant
Alternatives and the Shifting Standards for Knowledge,” Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (2002):
23-32.
Reviews
Presentations
Refereed
“Explanation, Epistemic Closure and Belief-Forming
Methods” (written with Peter Murphy)
·
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 30-May 2, 2004
“Hume’s Epistemological Compatibilism”
·
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division
Meetings, March, 2003
“Skepticism and Warranted Assertion”
·
American Philosophical Association, Central Division
Meetings, April, 2003
·
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society for Skeptical
Studies, March, 2003
·
Central States Philosophical Association, October, 2002
·
Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October, 2002
“Relevant Alternatives and the Shifting Standards
for Knowledge”
·
American Philosophical Association, Central Division
Meetings, April, 2002
·
Southwestern Philosophical Society, November, 2001
“A Moorean Response to Skepticism”
·
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division
Meetings, March, 2002
“Relevant Alternatives and the Skeptical Puzzle”
·
Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February, 2000
Invited
“Reflective Epistemic Luck and a New Epistemic Compatibilism”
· 3rd Southern California Epistemology Workshop, UCLA, May 17, 2008
“Searching for Reason’s
Foundation: Hume’s Arguments in Of
scepticism with regard to reason”
·
Claremont Graduate
University Philosophy Colloquium,
April 19, 2007
“Defending a Sensitive
Neo-Moorean Invariantism”
·
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society for Skeptical
Studies, March, 2006
“Explanationist
Counterfactualism” (written with Peter Murphy)
·
Southern California Metaphysics Group, April 12, 2005
“Contextualism, Closure,
and Contingent A Priori Knowledge”
·
Philosophy Symposia, California
State University,
San Bernardino,
November, 2003
“Is There Room for
Epistemic Closure in a Counterfactualist Theory of Knowledge?” (written with
Peter Murphy)
·
Eighth Annual Southern California
Philosophy Conference, October, 2003
“Skepticism and Warranted
Assertability Maneuvers”
·
Philosophy Colloquium, University of Utah,
December, 2002
“A Refuge for Knowledge,
or How the Relevant Alternatives Theory Can Shelter Us From Skepticism”
·
Department of Philosophy Colloquium, California State
University, Fresno, April, 2002
Commentaries
Comments on Daniel M. Johnson’s “Can Moore’s Proof Rationally Persuade Without Transmitting Warrant?”
· American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, April, 2008
Comments on D. Blake Roeber’s “Contextualism and Virtue Perspectivism: How to Preserve Our Intuitions About Knowledge and ‘Knows’”
· American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meetings, December, 2007
Comments on Juan Comesaña’s “Knowledge and
Subjunctive Conditionals” (with Peter Murphy)
·
On-Line Philosophy Conference 2, May 14-20, 2007 (The conference is online at the following
address: http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/2nd_annual_online_philoso/)
Comments on Kent Bach’s
“The Emperor’s New ‘Knows’”
·
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 30-May 2,
2004
Comments on Jessica
Brown’s “Adapt or die: the death of invariantism?”
·
University of Stirling’s Epistemological
Contextualism, March
20-21, 2004
Comments on Jean-Pierre
Schachter’s “Hume’s Principles of World-Construction”
·
30th Annual Hume Society Conference, July 29-August 2, 2003
Comments on Matt Cooper’s
“Skepticism and Contextual Semantics”
·
Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October, 2002
Comments on Erik
Schmidt’s “Self-Deception and Ambivalent Belief”
·
Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February, 2000
COURSES TAUGHT
At
California State University,
Northridge
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PHIL
100: General Logic
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Fall
2005
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PHIL
150: Introduction to Philosophical Thought
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Fall
2007
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PHIL
200: Critical Reasoning
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Fall
2004, Spring & Summer 2005,
Summer 2006, Spring 2007,
Summer 2008
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PHIL
202: Modern Philosophy
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Fall
2004, Fall 2006, Spring 2008,
Fall 2008
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PHIL
230: Introduction to Formal Logic
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Fall
2003, Spring 2004, Spring &
Fall 2006, Fall 2008
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PHIL
350: Epistemology and Metaphysics
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Fall
2005
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PHIL
355: Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics
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Fall
2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2007
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PHIL
403: Contemporary Philosophy (Duncan Pritchard’s
Epistemic Luck)
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Sping
2008
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PHIL
450: Advanced Epistemology and Metaphysics
(John Hawthorne’s Knowledge and Lotteries)
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Spring
2006
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PHIL
497: Senior Seminar
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Spring
2007
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LING
430: A Linguistic Introduction to Cognitive Science
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Spring
2006
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LRS
396GW: Liberal Studies Gateway
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Spring
2005
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At University
of Utah
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PHIL
1250: Reasoning and Rational Decision Making
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Spring
2003
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PHIL
1250: Reasoning and Rational Decision Making (Online WebCT course)
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Spring
2003
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PHIL
3200: Deductive Logic
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Fall
2002
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PHIL
3300: Theory of Knowledge
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Fall
2002
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PHIL
3910: Individual Research (John McDowell’s Mind and World)
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Fall
2002
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PHIL
5300/6300: Epistemology (Graduate Core Course)
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Spring
2003
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At California
State University,
Fresno
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PHIL
1: Introduction to Philosophy
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Fall
2001
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PHIL
20: Moral Issues
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Fall
2001
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PHIL
28: Critical Thinking in the Classroom
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Spring
2002
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PHIL
120: Contemporary Conflicts of Morals
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Fall
2001, Spring 2002
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SERVICE TO THE CSUN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
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Fall 2008-present
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Academic Advisor, Philosophy Department
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Fall 2003-present
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Appointments Committee, Philosophy Department
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Fall 2004-present
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Assessment Committee, Philosophy Department
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Chair (Fall 2004-present)
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Fall 2005-Spring 2007
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Critical Reasoning Committee, Philosophy Department
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Fall 2004-present
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Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department
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Chair (Fall 2004-present)
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Fall 2003–present
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Strategic Planning Committee, Philosophy Department
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Summer 2005-Summer 2008
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Summer Sessions Committee, Philosophy Department
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Fall 2003-Spring 2007
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Student Philosophy Society, Faculty Sponsor
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October 8, 2004
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Learning Centered University Symposium, Poster
Session Presenter
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SERVICE TO CALIFORNIA STATE
UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE
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Summer 2005-Fall 2005
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Organizer of the 10th Annual Southern California
Philosophy Conference (held at CSUN on October 29, 2005, and sponsored by the CSUN
Philosophy Department)
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Summer 2007-Fall 2007
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Organizer of the 11th Southern California
Philosophy
Conference (held at CSUN on
October 27, 2007, and
sponsored by the CSUN Philosophy Department)
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Fall 2005-Spring 2006
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Academic Council
Philosophy Department’s Alternate
Representative
California State
University, Northridge
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Fall 2004-Spring 2008
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Assessment Liaison Committee
California State
University, Northridge
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Spring 2005-Fall 2005
Fall 2006-Spring 2008
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Associated Students Annual Budget Review Board
Faculty Representative
California State
University, Northridge
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Fall 2007-present
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Faculty Hearing Panel, California
State University,
Northridge (Philosophy Department Representative)
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Fall 2006-present
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Integrated Teacher Education/Liberal Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Committee
California State
University, Northridge
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Assessment
Sub-committee, Fall 2007-present
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Fall 2005
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Lower Division Transfer Pattern
Disciplinary Representative (Philosophy)
California State
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Spring 2006-Spring2008
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Master’s in Humanities Faculty Planning Committee
California State
University, Northridge
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Spring 2004-Fall 2005
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New Faculty Orientation Organizing Committee
California State
University, Northridge
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Service to the profession
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2001
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Referee
for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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2002
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Referee
for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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2003
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Referee for the
following journals: American
Philosophical Quarterly,
Australasian
Journal of Philosophy
Program Committee for
the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical Association
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2004
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Referee for the
following journals: Erkenntnis, The Philosophical
Quarterly, Synthese
Referee
for the following publishers: Routledge
Program Committee for
the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical Association
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2005
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Referee for the following journals: Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Erkenntnis,
The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
Referee for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Program Committee for
the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical Association
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2006
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Referee for the following journals: American Philosophical Quarterly,
Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, The
Philosophical Quarterly,
Synthese
Referee for the
following publishers: McGraw-Hill, Oxford
University
Press, Wadsworth/Thomson Higher
Education
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2007
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Referee for the following journals: Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica,
Dialogue, The Journal
of
Philosophical Research, Synthese, Theoria
Referee for the
following publishers: McGraw-Hill, Oxford
University
Press, Routledge, Wadsworth/Thomson
Higher Education, Wiley-
Blackwell
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2008
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Referee for the following journals: Dialectica, Mind,
The Philosophical
Quarterly, Synthese
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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2000-present
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American Philosophical
Association
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2001-present
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Society for Skeptical
Studies
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2006-present
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Hume Society
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2002-2003
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Central States
Philosophical Association
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2001-2002
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Southwestern
Philosophical Society
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Honors And awardS
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Fall 2005
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CSUN College of Humanities Faculty
Fellowship
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Project: “Hume’s Epistemological Compatibilism”
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Spring 2005
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CSUN Probationary
Faculty Development Grant
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Project: “A Warranted-Assertability Defense of A Moorean
Response to Skepticism”
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Fall 2007
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CSUN Competition for Research,
Scholarship and Creative Activity
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Project: “Implicature Cancellations and Epistemological
Invariantism”
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Fall 2007
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CSUN College of Humanities Faculty
Fellowship
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Project: “Searching for Reason’s Foundation: Hume’s
Arguments in Of scepticism with regard
to reason”
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Spring 2008
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CSUN College of Humanities Faculty
Fellowship
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Project: “Nature and Cogitation in Hume’s Treatise 1.4.7”
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