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CURRICULUM VITAE
DAVID W. D. OWEN

Date of birth: l5/08/48

Address: Dept of Philosophy, 213 Social Sciences Bldg.,
University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721.
Telephone: (520) 621-3120, fax 621-9559
Email: DWO@U.ARIZONA.EDU

AOS: History of Early Modern Philosophy, esp. Hume, Locke and Descartes

AOC: Elementary Logic (traditionally taught), Elementary Logic (taught with computer tools), Mid-level Formal Logic

Education

Undergraduate, l967-71, Trent University, Canada.
Degree: Honours B.A. First Class in Philosophy
B.A.(equivalent) Mathematics

Graduate, l97l-3, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Degree: B. Phil. in philosophy, awarded July l973
Thesis: Action and Responsibility
Advisor: J.O. Urmson

Graduate, l975-8, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Degree: D. Phil. in philosophy, awarded l979.
Thesis: Actions, Causes and Events
Advisors: L.J. Cohen, David Pears

Publications

Books

Central Readings in the History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (Wadsworth 1998 2nd edition) ed. with Rob Cummins.

Hume’s Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Hume, ed., International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Ashgate/Dartmouth Publications: 2000), General Editor: Tom Campbell.

Early Modern Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, co-edited with Paul Hoffman and Gideon Yaffe (Calgary: Broadview, fothcoming)

Journal Articles

'An Unnoticed Error in Hume's Treatise', Hume Studies I #2, Nov 1975, pp. 76-77. This proposes a change in the text that is now incorporated in the standard Oxford editions of the Treatise.

'Actions and Bodily Movements: Another Move', Analysis XL #1, Jan 1980, pp.32-35.

'Hume vs Price on Miracles and Prior Probabilities: Testimony and the Bayesian Calculation', The Philosophical Quarterly XXXVII #147, Ap 1987 pp.187-202, with a response by J. Howard Sobel.
Reprinted in a collection edited by R. Swinburne, Miracles (Blackwells 1988).
Reprinted in a collection edited by S. Tweyman, David Hume: Critical Assessments (Routledge 1994).
Reprinted in a collection edited by Peter Millican, Reading Hume on Human Understanding (OUP 2002).

'Locke on Real Essence', History of Philosophy Quarterly VIII #2, Ap 1991, pp. 105-118. Reprinted in Locke, edited by Udo Theil, The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Ashgate/Dartmouth Publications 2002), General Editor: Tom Campbell.

'Hume and the Lockean Background: Induction and the Uniformity Principle', Hume Studies XVII #2, Nov 1992, pp. 179-207.

'Locke on Reason, Probable Reasoning and Opinion', The Locke Newsletter XXIV 1993, pp. 35-79.

‘Hume's Doubts About Probable Reasoning: Was Locke the Target?’, Hume and Hume's Connexions (Edinburgh University Press, Penn State University Press), 1994.

'Inference, Reason and Reasoning in Hume's Treatise, Book I', The Southwest Philosophy Review X #1, Jan 1994, pp. 17-27.

'Reason, Reflection and Reductios', Hume Studies XX #2, Nov 1994, pp.195-210.

'Philosophy and the Good Life: Hume's Defence of Probable Reasoning', Dialogue XXXV #3, Summer 1996.

'Hume on Demonstration', Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Patricia Easton, North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy (Atascadero, CA.: Ridgeview Publishing Group, 1997)

'Representation, Reason and Motivation' (with Rachel Cohon), Manuscrito 20, 1997, 47-76.

Critical Notice, Nicholas Wolterstorff’s John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, The Locke Newsletter (1999)

‘Reply to my critics’, contribution to book symposium on my Hume’s Reason, Hume Studies 26, #2 (2000)

‘Reason and Commitment’, contribution to book symposium on Don Garrett’s Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomological Research LXII, #1, 2001

‘Locke and Hume on Belief, Judgment and Assent, Topoi 2003 22, pp. 15-28

‘Scepticism with regard to reason’, forthcoming in a volume of essays on Hume’s Treatise, edited by Donald Ainslie, for Cambridge University Press.

‘Hume and the Mechanics of the Mind: Impressions, Ideas and Association’, forthcoming in the 2nd edition of the Cambridge Companion to Hume, ed. David Fate Norton

‘Locke on Judgment’, forthcoming in Cambridge Companion to Locke’s Essay, ed. Lex Newman

‘Hume and the Irrelevance of Warrant’, forthcoming in a Brazilian volume based on the 2nd Brazilian Hume Colloquium, 2004.


Reviews, Reports and Encyclopedia articles

Review of J. Hornsby, Actions, in Philosophical Quarterly, 1981.

Review of M. Hollis, Invitation to Philosophy, and O'Hear, What Philosophy Is, Times Literary Supplement, 1985.

Review of Brand, Intending and Acting, Times Literary Supplement, 1986.

Review of Flew, David Hume, Times Literary Supplement, 1986.

'Electronic Texts and the History of Early Modern Philosophy', APA Computer Use in Philosophy Newsletter, 1989.

'Computers and Logic Teaching: A Personal Report', Computerised Logic Teaching Bulletin, 1989.

8 Reports on the role and activities of the APA Subcommittee on Electronic Texts in Philosophy in the APA Computer Use in Philosophy Newsletter, Proceedings of the APA, and the ACH Newsletter, 1989-93.

Review of Flage, Hume's Philosophy of Mind, The Philosophical Review, 1992.

'Reason', The Encyclopedia of Empiricism ed. Don Garrett (Westport: The Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997)

'Intuition', The Encyclopedia of Empiricism ed. Don Garrett (Westport: The Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997)

'Demonstration', The Encyclopedia of Empiricism ed. Don Garrett (Westport: The Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997)

Review of Kennedy, Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard, History and Philosophy of Logic, 2001

Review of David Owens, Reason without Freedom, Philosophy in Review 2002 (co-authored with Todd Stewart)

Review of Louis Loeb, Stability and Justification in Hume’s Treatise, International Journal of Philosophy 2004


University Positions


1. Stirling University, Scotland: lecturer from September l973 to August 1974, and from February to August 1975
2. Trent University, Ontario, Canada: visiting lecturer from September 1974 to January 1975.
3. Lecturer in Philosophy, Mansfield College, Oxford 1980-6. I obtained this position, which involved overall responsibility for the philosophy teaching in the College, after completing my doctorate. While working on my doctorate, I taught part time at several Oxford colleges, including Christ Church, The Queen's College, New College, St. Edmund Hall and Wadham.
4. Academic Computing Specialist, University of Arizona, 1986-87.
5. Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona, 1988-89.
6. Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, 1991-92. /continued

7. Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, 1989-99.
8. Associate Professor, University of Arizona, 1999-

Grants and Awards

l967-7l Champlain College Senior Tutor's List
l968-9 Rufus Gibbs Scholarship
l969-70 Trent University Scholarship
Gadfly Prize (Department of Philosophy Prize)
l970-l Trent University Scholarship
Gadfly Prize
Master's Prize (for outstanding academic achievement)
l97l-2 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
l972-3 I.O.D.E. Post-Graduate Scholarship.
l975-9 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship.
1988 Social Sciences Faculty, University of Arizona,
course development grant (logic and computers)
1988 Invited visitor, Council for Philosophical Studies/NEH
Summer Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
1990, 94, 96, 98, 01, 02 International Travel Grant, University of Arizona
1994-5 Scholar Associate, Getty Center, Santa Monica CA
1997 Junior Sabbatical (Spring Semester), SBS, University of Arizona
1998 General Education Instructional Technology Grant
1998 Provost’s Authors Support Fund Award
1999 Invitee, Mortar Board National Honor Society Faculty Recognition Tea
1999 Sabbatical, University of Arizona (deferred until 2001)



Teaching Experience: To 1987

1. Stirling: Introduction to Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, History of Early Modern, Hume’s Moral Philosophy
2. Oxford: tutorials for all standard undergraduate philosophy papers, graduate supervision in philosophy of mind and action


Teaching Experience: From 1988

1. History of Early Modern at all levels: second year, fourth year and graduate
2. Logic: elementary and mid-level, both with and without computer tools


Service: To 1987

1. Secretarial Officer, Philosophy Department, Trent 1974.
2. Member, Sub-faculty of Philosophy, Oxford, 1980-86. /continued
3. Chairman, Logic development committee, Oxford, 1981.
4. Philosophy Moderator, Theology Preliminary Examination and Philosophy and Modern
Language Prelim., 1981-83.
5. Chairman of Moderators, Theology Prelim., 1982-83.
6. Appointments Committee, Mansfield College, 1982-83.
7. Chair, Computer Committee, Mansfield College, 1984-86.
8. Secretarial Officer, Philosophy Society, Oxford, 1985-86.
9. Member, Oxford/IBM joint committee on computers and logic, 1985-86.
10. Referee for Analysis.
11. Book Referee for Oxford University Press.
12. Referee for tenure decision, major American state university.

Service: From 1988

Intramural Service

Department

1. University Library/Department liaison, 1988-
2. Chair, Library Committee, 1989-94
3. Department Library Committee, 1989-, chair 1989-91.
4. Department Colloquium Committee, 1989-93, chair 89-90.
5. Department/CCIT Liaison, 1989-
6. Chair, Department Recruitment Committee, 1990-91
7. Department Rep., Campus Library Council, 1992-2002
8. Director Of Graduate Studies, 1993-94
9. Placement Officer, 1993-94
10.Curriculum Committee, 1995-00
11.Curriculum Committee, Chair, 1995-97, 99-00
12. Instructional Technology Committee, 1998-99
13. Graduate Recruitment Committee, 2002
14. Professional Status Committee, 2001-02
15. Visiting Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2003
16. Department Recruiting Committee, 2003-4
17. Peer Review Committee, 2004-
18. Department Colloquium Committee, 2005-

SBS

1. Dean's Computer Committee, 1989-94
2. SBS Computer Lab Steering Committee, 92-94

3. Dept. liaison to SBS Instructional Technology Committee, 1999-

University

1. Initiated first use of computer conferencing for language instruction on CoSy, 1987-88.
2. Initiated proposals, and helped design and obtain funding, for computer lab for honors program in Yuma Hall, 1989. /continued
3. Member, Instructional Computing Advisory Committee, 91-92.
4. Member, Campus Library Council, 1992-02
5. Member, UAInfo Development Team, 1993.
6. Provost’s Authors Support Fund, 1999
7. Member of Committee conducting 5 year review of Dean of Libraries, 2000-01
Extramural

1. Referee for The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the Canadian Philosophical Association, The Hume Society, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Archive, Hume Studies, and the Journal of Philosophical Research
2. Book referee for Wadsworth, Prentice Hall, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press.
3. Referee for logic software, Wadsworth, Prentice Hall.
4. Referee for promotion to tenure, full professor and university awards at major state and private universities.
5. APA liaison to the Association for Computers in the Humanities, 1988-94
6. Proposed APA Initiative for Electronic Texts in Philosophy, 1988. Acting chairman of the APA Subcommittee on Electronic Texts in Philosophy, 1989, Chairman, 1990-92, Member 1989-94
7. Organized and moderated special APA presentations on philosophy and electronic texts at the joint ACH/ALLC conference, June 1989, and March, 1991.
8. Organized special session on Electronic Texts in Philosophy in Use, APA Central, April, 1990, and APA Pacific, March 1993.
9. Referee, Hume Society Conference, 1990, 93, 94, 95, 98-03
10. Chaired sessions, APA Pacific 1991, 93, 95, 99, 00, APA Eastern 2003, APA Central 2004
11. Chaired sessions, Hume Society Conference, 1992, 94 -98, 01, 03, 05
12. Member, APA Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy, 1992-4
13. Program Committee, Hume Society Conference, 1994.
14. Hume Society Representative to the Pacific APA, 1997-00
15. External examiner for McGill PhD, 1998
16. Referee for NSF, 1998-99
17.Program Committee, Pacific APA 1999-2000.
18.18th century editor (with Margaret Atherton), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), 1999-2004
20. Editorial Board, Hume Studies, 2001-2004
21. APA Pacific Division Nominating Committee, 2003-2004
22. Co-organizer, 32nd Hume Society Conference, July 2005, Toronto
23. Hume Society Executive Committee, 2005-


Scholarly Presentations: to 1998

Invited Symposia and Colloquia:

1972 'Action and Responsibility', Ockham Society, Oxford.

1974-5 'Davidson on Mental Events', read at Departmental Colloquia at Trent, Stirling and Oxford.

1976 'Facts, Events and Extensional Contexts', Department Colloquium, Stirling.

1977 ‘Materialism and the Philosophy of Action’, St. Edmund Hall Philosophy Society.

1979 'Actions, Events and Bodily Movements', Department Colloquia, Trent and Liverpool.

1979 'Kim on Events', read at philosophy groups, Oxford and Pittsburgh.

1980 Reply to Adam Morton, 'Personality and Character', Oxford Philosophical Society.

1981 'Beliefs and Materialism', Department Colloquia, Glasgow and Stirling.

1982 'Instrumentalism, Propositional Attitudes and Explanation', read at a philosophy group in Oxford.

1984 'Hume, Miracles and Prior Probabilities', Department Colloquium, Calgary.

1987 'Hume on Induction: Treatise vs Enquiry', Department Colloquia, University of Texas at Austin and University of Arizona.

1988 'Hume and Laws of Nature', invited address to a Hume Symposium at the annual Canadian Philosophical Association conference, Windsor, Ontario, May 1988.

1989 'Philosophy and Computer Conferencing', APA Pacific Division.

1989 Reply to Barry Gower, "David Hume and the Probability of Miracles", Hume Society, Lancaster England.

1989 'Hume on Induction', Trent University.

1990 'Hume on Philosophy and the Good Life', City College, CUNY

1990 'The Electronic Hume', 'Teaching and the Electronic Locke', Special Session on Electronic Texts in Philosophy in Use, APA Central Division.

1990 'Locke on Reason, Probable Reasoning and Opinion', Oxford Locke Conference.

1991 'Hume on Reason', Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium.

1992 'Philosophy and the Good Life: Hume and Laws of Nature', Columbia University Departmental Colloquium. / continued

1993 'The Development of Hume's Account of Reasoning in Book One of Hume's Treatise', Pacific APA Hume Society Session.

1993 'Probable Reasoning Not Based on Reason?', Hume Society Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

1994 'Reason, Reflection and Reductios', comments on Baier's A Progress of Sentiments, Author meets Critics session, APA Pacific, 1994.

1994 'Hume on Demonstration', Departmental Colloquia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University.

1995 'Nonformal Logic in Early Modern Philosophy', Departmental Colloquium, Occidental College.

1995 Reply to Michael Lynch, 'The Self-Destruction of Reason', Hume Society, Park City, Utah

1995 Comments on David Norton's notes and commentary on Book I of Hume's Treatise, Hume Society, Park City, Utah.

1995-98 'Hume and the Irrelevance of Warrant', Departmental Colloquia, University of Western Ontario, University of New Mexico, Arizona State University, University of Florida, Princeton University; Keynote address, Hume Society Conference, Nottingham UK, 1996.

1997 Reply to Falkenstein, "When Beliefs Conflict", Hume Society Conference, Monterey , California, 1997

Conference Talks (Refereed)

1984 'Hume, Miracles and Prior Probabilities', Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference

1989 'Locke and Real Essence', APA Pacific Division.

1989 'Hume and the Lockean Background: Induction and the Uniformity Principle', Hume Society, Lancaster, England.

1990 'Locke on Reason and Probable Reasoning', APA Pacific.

1992 'Philosophy and the Good Life: Hume and Laws of Nature', Hume Society Conference, Nantes, France.

1993 'Inference, Reason and Reasoning in Hume's Treatise, Book I', Southwestern Philosophy Society Conference.

1994 'Hume on Demonstration', plenary session, Hume Society, Rome, Italy.

1996 'Locke on Inference and Analyticity', APA Pacific.

1996 'Representation, Reason and Motivation' (with Rachel Cohon), Hume Society, Nottingham UK.

1998 ‘Belief: Hume’s Change of Mind’, Hume Society Conference, Stirling, Scotland


Scholarly Presentations: 1999-

Invited Symposia and Colloquia

1999 Author meets critics session on Don Garrett’s Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy, Central APA

1999 ‘Belief in the Treatise and Hume’s Change of Mind’, 6th Annual Conference on Modern Philosophy (Long Beach)

1999-02 ‘Locke and Hume on Belief, Judgment and Assent’, Department Colloquia, University of California San Diego, University of Massachusetts Amherst, California Conference in Early Modern Philosophy (Berkeley), University of Arizona, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania

1999 ‘Descartes and Locke on Judgment’, Cartesian Circle, Southern California

2000 ‘Belief, Judgment and Assent in Hume’, Humean Readings conference, Rome, June

2000 ‘Reply to my critics’, contribution to “Author meets critics” session on my Hume’s Reason, Hume Society Conference, Williamsburg, VA /continued

2001 ‘Reasoning, Attention and the Cartesian Circle’, Departmental Colloquium, Hampshire College, College of Charleston

2001 ‘The Main Theses of Hume’s Reason’, seminar on Hume’s Reason, University of Rome, La Sapienza

2001 Comments on ‘A wise man proportions his beliefs according to the evidence’, Hume Society Conference, Victoria BC.

2002 ‘Hume on Scepticism with Regard to Reason’, Hume Society Conference, Helsinki

2003 comments on Mark Collier, ‘Hume’s Consequent Scepticism’, APA Pacific Division

2003 comments on Kevin Meeker’s ‘Hume on Certainty, Knowledge and Probability’, Hume Society conference, Las Vegas

2003 comments on Louis Loeb, Stability and Justification in Hume’s Treatise, Eastern APA 2003

2004 ‘Hume and the Irrelevance of Warrant’, Brazil Hume Workshop, University of the Bosphorus Istanbul

2005 ‘Locke on Judgment’, colloquium at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Oct. 2005

2005 comments on Geoff Sayre McCord, ‘Hume on Reason and the Emotions’, NYU 2nd annual conference, Nov. 2005

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