Kant's Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume In Kant's Inferentialism (Routledge: 2015, paperback 2017), I present a systematic interpretation of Kant’s replacement of Hume’s theory of mental representation with an account of concepts as inferential rules. I recast Kant’s understanding of human experience as an essentially normative enterprise aimed at producing a representation of a world of causally-governed material objects. Reviews and Discussions Tom Vinci, Kantian Review 22 2 (2017):331-36 Robert Watt, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (2018): 215-18 Timothy Rosenkoetter, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.07.12 Tim Jankowiak, Critique Anil Gomes, Critique
Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation In Hume's Science of Human Nature (Routledge: 2017, paperback 2019) I investigate the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing the science of human nature. I there argue that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. Reviews and Discussions Hsueh Qu, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.11.24 Miren Boehm, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57 2 (2019): 350-1 Matias Slavov, Philosophy in Review, 39 3 (August 2019): 137-9 Tamás Demeter and Krisztián Pete, HOPOS, 9 2 (September 2019): 415-19 Emily Kelahan, Hume Studies, 44 1 (2021): 109-112
Wilfrid Sellars Notre Dame Lectures 1969-1986. (With Pedro Amaral. Ridgeview, 2019) During the years covered in this edition, Wilfrid Sellars gave lectures at Notre Dame for the Notre Dame philosophy club from which many subsequent papers were drawn. In addition to extensive Q&A for each lecture, the oral presentation captures a certain spontaneous informality which is absent from Sellars' printed works on the same topic. Sellars' writings are notoriously difficult and obscure but as he puts voice to his words, his philosophical vision comes to life in a way that his published works do not.