Jonathan Cottrell
Lecturer

- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3655
- Email: j.cottrell@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 5.11, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
Office Hours: Online, by appointment
Background
I joined the department in 2019, having previously taught at Wayne State University (Assistant Professor, 2013–19) and New York University (Lecturer, 2012–13). I received my PhD from New York University (2012), where I was supervised by Don Garrett.
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Responsibilities & affiliations
Hume Society
British Society for the History of Philosophy
Undergraduate teaching
This year, I am teaching Early Modern Philosophy (with a focus on David Hume's philosophy) and the Early Modern portion of Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Early Modern Philosophy, especially David Hume's philosophy
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Representation and copying in Hume's Treatise and later works
In:
Ergo
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Review of: The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind by Timothy M. Costelloe
In:
Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 57, pp. 559-560
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2019.0066
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Hume's answer to Bayle on the Vacuum
(32 pages)
In:
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, vol. 101, pp. 205-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2019-2003
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Unperceived Existence and Hume's Theory of Ideas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852452.003.0006
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Hume on space and time: A limited defense
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781138323032
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Perceptions, minds, and Hume's self-doubts
In:
Hume Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Teaching & learning guide for:: Hume on mental representation and intentionality
In:
Philosophy Compass, vol. 13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.v13.8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Hume on mental representation and intentionality
In:
Philosophy Compass, vol. 13, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12505
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Review of: The Oxford Handbook of Hume
(4 pages)
In:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 26, pp. 622-625
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1358142
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Review of: Ideas, evidence, and method: Hume's skepticism and naturalism concerning knowledge and causation
(6 pages)
In:
Philosophical review, vol. 126, pp. 393-398
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3878523
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)