Peter Fosl is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Transylvania University, Kentucky.
He is at IASH as the 2013-14 David Hume Fellow and is working on "The Promise of Philosophy: Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume"
Project description:
"My work addresses a number of the most perplexing and persistent interpretive issues facing those engaged with the thought of David Hume. The book-length project I am pursuing at IASH, The Promise of Philosophy: Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume, enlists conceptual schemes drawn from Pyrrhonian and Academical scepticism to tackle the thorny historical-critical task of precisely defining the nature and function of Hume’s own, distinctive sceptical thought. The project also engages the philosophical task of explaining the way Hume’s skepticism makes possible a distinctive non-dogmatic kind of theorizing—a skeptical naturalism that underwrites a non-dogmatic natural science as well as non-dogmatic ways of believing, thinking and acting more generally. Because this skeptical vision promises not only to resolve conceptual problems but also to ameliorate social-political pathologies, exploring the implications of Hume’s skeptical naturalism for politics and religion will complete the work of my project.
Public Lecture by Peter Fosl
Tuesday, 19 November at 4 pm
IASH, 2 Hope Park Square
"Hume and the Promise of Philosophy"
As space is limited, please email iash@ed.ac.uk if you would like to attend
Contact Details:
Email: Peter Fosl
Tel: 0131 651 1159
Address:
The Sprigge Room
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
The University of Edinburgh
Hope Park Square
Edinburgh EH8 9NW