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Dr Peter Kail

University Lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy
St Peter's College

peter.kail@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

St Peter's College
Oxford, OX1 2DL

Research Interests

History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Hume) Mind and Metaphysics, Nietzsche

Peter Kail

Career & Education

University of Keele, Ba. (Hons.) Classics and Philosophy
M.Phil. Ph.D. Clare College, Cambridge
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge
Junior Research Fellow, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Lecturer in Philosophy, Edinburgh University (2001-2005)
Scholar in Residence, the Newberry Library, Chicago (2004-2005)

Publications

  1. Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007.

  2. ‘Berkeley, Non-Cognitivism' and the Principles’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2007.

  3. ‘On Hume's Appropriation of Malebranche’ European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

  4. ‘Understanding Hume’s Natural History of Religion’, Philosophical Quarterly April 2007.

  5. ‘Leibniz’s Dog and Humean Reason’ Rivista di storia della filosophia Hume special edition forthcoming.

  6. ‘How to understand Hume’s Realism’ in Richman and Read (eds.)The New Hume Debate 2nd. Ed. (Routledge forthcoming).

  7. ‘Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-Realist?’ in The Blackwell Companion to Hume, ed. Elizabeth Radcliffe, Basil Blackwell (forthcoming).

  8. ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’ in Central Works of Philosophy ed. Shand, Acumen Press (2005)

  9. ‘Hume’s Ethical Conclusion’ in Kail and Frasca-Spada (eds.) Impressions of Hume, Oxford (2005)

  10. Impressions of Hume (co-editor Marina Frasca-Spada), Oxford University Press, Mind Occasional Series, June 2005

  11. ‘Hume’s Natural History of Perception’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2005), 503-519.

  12. ‘Conceivability and Modality in Hume’ Hume Studies 11 (2003), 43-61.

  13. ‘Newton’ in The Blackwell Companion to Early Modern Philosophy in Nadler (ed.), Basil Blackwell 2002.

  14. ‘Hutcheson’s Moral Sense: Realism, Skepticism and Secondary Qualities’ History of Philosophy Quarterly, 18 (2001), 57-77.

  15. ‘Projection and Necessity in Hume’ European Journal of Philosophy, 9 (2001), 4-54.

  16. ‘Normativity and Function in Hutcheson’s Aesthetic Epistemology’ British Journal of Aesthetics, 40 (2000), 441-451.