doc. James Hill, PhD.

Research interests:

My work focuses on early-modern philosophy from Descartes to Hume. I pay particular attention to conceptions of mind and consciousness in this period, exploring their relation to the new science―both to its practice and to its world-picture. I also focus on the philosophy of mind in contemporary analytical philosophy, particularly on debates about the place of mind in the natural world. At present I am preparing a book on the mind and concept-formation in the work of George Berkeley. One of the aims is to show how Berkeley's thought in this area is highly innovative and cannot be properly appreciated on the traditional empiricist reading.

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Education

Trinity College, Oxford: B.A., M.A. (oxon); Université de Geneve: D.E.S; King's College, London University: PhD

Selected Publications

- "How Hume Became "The New Hume": A Developmental Approachˮ, in: Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 10:2, autumn 2012: 163-181.

Hill, J. and Glombíček, P (eds). Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

- "'Res Cogitans as Res Dubitansˮ, in: Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010: 29-44.

- "'The Synthesis of Empiricism and Innatism in Berkeley's Doctrine of Notionsˮ, in: Berkeley Studies, no. 21, 2010: 3-15.

- "Locke's Account of Cohesion and its Philosophical Significanceˮ, in: John Locke: Critical Assessments, II, 4 vols, ed. Peter Anstey. Oxford: Routledge, 2006: vol. 3: 145-165.

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