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9Hume as Regularity Theorist—After All! Completing a Counter-RevolutionHume Studies 49 (1): 101-162. 2024.Traditionally, Hume has widely been viewed as the standard-bearer for regularity accounts of causation. But between 1983 and 1990, two rival interpretations appeared—namely the skeptical realism of Wright, Craig, and Strawson, and the quasi-realist projectivism of Blackburn—and since then the interpretative debate has been dominated by the contest between these three approaches, with projectivism recently appearing the likely winner. This paper argues that the controversy largely arose from a fu…Read more
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77The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 348-353. 2011.Paul Russell’s The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise is one of the most important contributions to Hume scholarship of recent years, and deserves to be read by all who wish to untangle the complex threads of Hume’s masterpiece. Even those who remain unconvinced by the overall thesis will find much to value and to return to, and as such, it ranks as a permanent and significant achievement....
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44Hume’s Argument concerning Induction: Structure and InterpretationIn David Hume: Critical Assessments (vol. II), Routledge. pp. 91-144. 1995.Hume’s argument concerning induction is the foundation stone of his philosophical system, and one of the most celebrated and influential arguments in the entire literature of western philosophy. It is therefore rather surprising that the enormous attention which has been devoted to it over the years has not resulted in any general consensus as to how it should be interpreted, or, in consequence, how Hume himself should be seen. At one extreme is the traditional view, which takes the argument to …Read more
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Hume on modalityIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume Ii (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1999.This is the second of two volumes of essays on the ideas of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. 'fascinating...we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore …Read more
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The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volumes 1 and 2. Volume 1: Machines and ThoughtMind 108 (429): 187-195. 1999.
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76Minds and Machines Special Issue: Ethics and Artificial IntelligenceMinds and Machines 27 (4): 569-574. 2017.
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42Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science ...
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317Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing; it celebrates his intellectual legacy within the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the relationship beteen a scientific, computational image of the mind and a common-sense picture of the mind as an inner arena populated by concepts, beliefs, intentions, and qualia. Topics covered include the causal potency of folk- psychological states, the connection…Read more
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28Hume's Pivotal Argument, and His Supposed Obligation of ReasonHume Studies 44 (2): 167-208. 2021.ARRAY
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50Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science ...
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8Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine `thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing m…Read more
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7Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three famous ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis. 'a fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in many fields' Choice
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2Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, who pioneered computing theory in the middle of this century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key theories in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. All essays are specially written for this volume.
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262O Humově naturalismu, skepticismu a ateismuFilosoficky Casopis 2 (65): 163-174. 2017.Peter Millican je profesor filosofie a Gilbert Ryle Fellow na Hertford College, University of Oxford. Věnuje se především epistemologii, filosofii jazyka a náboženství, zabývá se dílem Davida Huma a Alana Turinga. Je autorem více než padesáti časopisecky publikovaných studií, editoval sborníky The Legacy of Alan Turing (Oxford University Press, 1996) a Reading Hume on Human Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2002). Připravil kritické vydání Humova An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding v…Read more
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23Defending the Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: One Author’s Reply to Abram, Heim, Łukasiewicz, Moser, Oppy, Salamon, Senor, Taliaferro & PorotEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (3): 81-106. 2017.
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87Hume's Fork, and his Theory of RelationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 95 (1): 3-65. 2017.
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Content, Thoughts, and Definite DescriptionsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 167-220. 1990.
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49Skepticism about Garrett’s HumeHume Studies 40 (2): 205-226. 2014.Hume, Don Garrett’s new book—long anticipated and well worth the wait—is a tour de force. Garrett’s impressive ability to weave a coherent philosophical account of Hume’s ideas, even when they seem most muddled or contradictory, is here fully displayed, linking together Hume’s thought as a whole and finding systematic themes within it whose potential richness has escaped other commentators. As a great admirer of Garrett’s work, from which I have learned so much over the years, I found it fascina…Read more
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90Hume’s view of reason is notoriously hard to pin down, not least because of the apparently contradictory positions which he appears to adopt in different places. The problem is perhaps most clear in his writings concerning induction - in his famous argument of Treatise I iii 6 and Enquiry IV, on the one hand, he seems to conclude that “probable inference” has no rational basis, while elsewhere, for example in much of his writing on natural theology, he seems happy to acknowledge that such infere…Read more
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79In October 1775, David Hume wrote to his printer William Strahan, requesting that an ‘Advertisement’ should be attached to remaining copies of the second volume of his Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. This volume contained his two Enquiries, the Dissertation on the Passions, and The Natural History of Religion, and the Advertisement states that these works should ‘alone be regarded as containing his philosophical sentiments and principles’ (E 2). In the covering letter, Hume comments th…Read more
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24This is just one typical example of a class of arguments which are sometimes used to attack those (such as the author of this article) who presume to criticise philosophers with different views, or from different cultures, by "dogmatically" appealing to the principles of logic. There is, as we shall see, something very odd about this sort of argument, but it does have a certain superficial plausibility, and also an air of moral virtue through its spirit of generous open-mindedness. Who are we to…Read more
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23An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. This edition places the work in its historical and philosophical context.
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Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First EnquiryPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (214): 180-183. 2004.