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    Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Moral Responsibility
    Hume Studies 48 (2): 195-216. 2023.
    Many scholars have claimed that the psychology of the indirect passions in the Treatise is meant to capture how we come to regard persons as morally responsible agents. My question is exactly how the indirect passions relate to responsibility. In elucidating Hume’s account of responsibility, scholars have often focused not on the passionate responses themselves, but on their structural features. In this paper, I argue that locating responsibility in the structural features is insufficient to mak…Read more
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    Hume on Distinctions of Reason: A Resemblance-First Interpretation
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (3): 423-436. 2019.
    To articulate their understanding of Hume’s discussion of ‘distinctions of reason’, commentators have often taken what I refer to as a ‘respect-first view’ on resemblance, in which they cat...
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    Hume’s Constitutivist Response to Scepticism
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    In the concluding section of the Book One of the Treatise, Hume confronts radical scepticism about the standards of correct reasoning. According to the naturalistic interpretations, Hume resolves this scepticism by appealing to some psychological facts. A common criticism of this interpretation is that the alleged naturalistic epistemic norm seems to be merely Hume’s report of his psychology, and it remains unclear why this seemingly mere psychological description can provide a principled reason…Read more