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 7.05
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
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.
CV
103153.pdf
Responsibilities & affiliations
Hume Society (Executive Committee Member)
British Society for the History of Philosophy
Undergraduate teaching
This year, I am on leave.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
My research focuses on the history of modern philosophy. I also have strong interests in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.
My work has appeared in The Philosophical Review, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Ergo, among other venues.
My current projects focus on Hume’s philosophy and on naturalism in modern philosophy.
Current research interests
To date, I’ve concentrated mainly on David Hume’s philosophy. I’ve also been exploring its relations to contemporary issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. A forthcoming paper, ‘The Priority of Passive Reasoning’, puts Hume into dialogue with Paul Boghossian, John Broome and others on the nature of reasoning. My works in progress also include (i) a monograph on Hume’s “anatomy” of the mind; (ii) a new student edition of Hume’s first Enquiry, under contract with W. W. Norton; and (iii) a multi-author collection entitled Naturalism in Early Modern Philosophy: Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd, which I’m co-editing with Aaron Garrett, and for which I’m writing a new paper on Mary Shepherd’s philosophy of mind. Lately, I’ve become interested in Shepherd and several other figures in nineteenth-century British philosophy: Thomas Brown, T. H. Huxley, and Charles Darwin. I plan to explore their ideas in future work.-
Perceptions, minds, and Hume's self-doubts: Comments on Ainslie's Hume's True Scepticism
In:
Hume Studies, vol. 45, pp. 109-119
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
[Review of] The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays
In:
Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzaa088
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (E-pub ahead of print) -
Representation and copying in Hume's Treatise and later works
In:
Ergo, vol. 8, pp. 83-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.1141
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
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) -
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)