 |
 |
David Owen
David Owen (D.Phil., Oxford), Associate Professor of Philosophy,
taught at Oxford and Columbia before coming to Arizona. He specializes
in the history of early modern philosophy, especially Descartes,
Locke and Hume, but also has broader philosophical interests,
especially in metaphysics and problems of reasoning. He is currently
working on theories of judgment in the 17th and 18th century.
Curriculum Vitae
- "Locke on Judgment", forthcoming
in The Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay, ed. by Lex Newman
- "‘Scepticism with regard
to reason’, forthcoming in a volume of essays on Hume’s
Treatise, edited by Donald Ainslie (CUP)"
- "‘Belief
and Assent in Locke and Hume’, Topoi (forthcoming)"
- ‘Reason and Commitment’, contribution to book symposium
on Don Garrett’s Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s
Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomological Research LXII, #1,
2001
- ‘Reply to my critics’, contribution to book symposium
on my Hume’s Reason, Hume Studies 26, #2 (2000)
- Critical Notice, Nicholas Wolterstorff’s John Locke and
the Ethics of Belief, The Locke Newsletter (1999)
- "'Representation,
Reason and Motivation' (with Rachel Cohon), Manuscrito 20,
1997, 47-76."
- "Hume and the Irrelevance
of Warrant", not published
- "Hume on Demonstration" (Logic of the Workings
of the Mind, North American Kant Society, 1997) edited
by Patricia Easton
- "Philosophy and the Good Life: Hume's Defence of Probable
Reasoning" (Dialogue XXXV, 1996)
- "Reason, Reflection and Reductios" (Hume Studies,
November 1994)
- "Hume's Doubts About Probable Reasoning: Was Locke the
Target?" in Hume and Hume's Connexions M.A. Stewart
and J.P. Wright, eds. (Edinburgh/Penn State, 1994)
- "Locke on Reason, Probable Reasoning and Opinion"
(The Locke Newsletter, 1993)
- "Hume and the Lockean Background: Induction and the Uniformity
Principle" (Hume Studies, November 1992)
- "Locke on Real Essence" (History of Philosophy
Quarterly, April 1991)
- "Hume vs. Price on Miracles and Prior Probabilities:
Testimony and the Bayesian Calculation" (The Philosophical
Quarterly, April 1987; and Miracles, ed. R. Swinburne,
Blackwell, 1988)
- Hume: General Philosophy, The International Library of Critical
Essays in the History of Philosophy, General Editor Tom Campbell
(Ashgate, 2000)
- Hume's
Reason (Oxford University Press,
1999)
- Central Readings in the History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes
to Kant (Wadsworth, 1998, 2nd edition),edited with Robert
Cummins.
David Owen's Course
Page
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027
dwo at u.arizona.edu
|
|
