Profile

Career

Research

Overview

Research interests

Hume, 18th century thought, Deleuze.

Publications

Selected publications

• 2009: "Hume on Causation". D.F.Norton and J. Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, 2nd. Ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 147-176.
• 2008: "Hume on the Nature and Existence of God". E.S.Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume. (Oxford: Blackwell), 338-352.
• 2007: "The natural history of religion". E. Mazza and E. Ronchetti (eds.), New Essays on David Hume. (Milan:  Franco Angeli), 389- 410.
• 2005: "Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze’s Reading of Hume". M. Frasca-Spada and P.J.E. Kail (eds.), Impressions of Hume. (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 95-106.
• 2001: "The Relation between Philosophical Argument and Literary Form in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion". Hume Studies, 27, 2, 227-246.
• 2001: "Belief and Instinct in Hume's First Enquiry".  P.J.R.Millican (ed.), Reading Hume on Human Understanding. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 175-185.
• 2000: "Hume, Hutcheson e le due specie di filosofia". A.Santucci (ed.),  Filosofia e cultura nel Settecento britannico. (Bologna: il Mulino), 167-179.
• 2000: "Sceptical Doubts Concerning Hume's Causal Realism". R Read and K. Richman (eds.), The New Hume Debate. (London: Taylor and Francis), 122-137.

External activities

Memberships

• Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University
• Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy