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37Teresa, Descartes, and de Sales: the art of Augustinian meditationIntellectual History Review 30 (4): 561-584. 2020.
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15Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and AbsurdityDissertation, University of South Florida. 2018.I provide an interpretation of Hume’s argument in Treatise 1.2 Of the Ideas of Space and Time that finite extensions are only finitely divisible (hereafter Hume’s Finite Divisibility Argument). My most general claim is that Hume intends his Finite Divisibility Argument to be a demonstration in the Early Modern sense as involving the comparison and linking of ideas based upon their intrinsic contents. It is a demonstration of relations among ideas, meant to reveal the meaningfulness or absurdity …Read more
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3Inferences, External Objects, and the Principle of Contradiction: Hume's Adequacy Principle in Part II of the TreatiseFlorida Philosophical Review 16 (1): 23-40. 2016.This paper considers whether elements of T 1.2 Of the Ideas of Space and Time in Hume’s Treatise is inconsistent with skepticism regarding the external world in T 1.4.2 Of Scepticism with regard to the Senses. This apparent tension vexes commentators, and efforts to resolve it drives the recent scholarship on this section of Hume’s Treatise. To highlight this tension I juxtapose Hume’s “Adequacy Principle” with what I call his “skeptical causal argument” in T 1.4.2. The Adequacy Principle appear…Read more
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University of South FloridaDoctoral student
White Pine, Florida, United States of America