In Kant's Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge: 2015, paperback 2017), I present a systematic interpretation of Kant’s replacement of Hume’s theory of mental representation with an account of concepts as inferential rules. I recast Kant’s understanding of human experience as an essentially normative enterprise aimed at producing a representation of a world of causally-governed material objects.

In Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation (Routledge: 2017) I investigate the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing the science of human nature. I there argue t…

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