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Peter Millican's Papers and Talks on Hume

(Please note that this page is incomplete, and under development.)

I plan to mount here all - or nearly all - of the several dozen Humean papers and talks that I have produced over the last 25 years, in the hope that these might be of interest to others. Listed below are those that I feel reasonably confident of locating, though many of the earlier ones will need to be transcribed to a modern computer-readable form before mounting.

Virtually all of these files are in "PDF" form, to maintain platform independence. Any PowerPoint slides have been reduced to six per page, and are available in both a colour and a greyscale form (the former for viewing, the latter for printing).

• 2006
  • "Understanding the World, from Aristotle to Quantum Mechanics: The Significance of David Hume" (colour slides)
    Hertford to Hartford Lecture, University of Hartford, Connecticut (November)
  • Greyscale slides from the above
     
  • "Hume's 'Compleat Answer to Dr Reid'"
    Hume Conference, University of Koblenz, Germany (August)
  • Colour slides from the above
  • Greyscale slides from the above
     
  • "Kemp Smith on Causation" (colour slides)
    Kemp Smith 101 Conference, University of Oxford (May)
  • Greyscale slides from the above
     
  • "The Significance of David Hume" (colour slides)
    Hertford College Soiree (May)
  • Greyscale slides from the above
  
   
• 2005
  • "Hume's Determinism"
    Hume Conference, University of Toronto (July)
  • Colour slides from the above
  • Greyscale slides from the above
  
   
• 2004
  • Comments on Houston Smit's "A Priority, Reason, and Induction in Hume"
    Hume Conference, University of Keio, Tokyo (August)
     
  • "Hume's 'Compleat Answer to Dr Reid'"
    Third International Reid Symposium, University of Aberdeen (July)
  
   
• 2003
  • "Humes Old and New: Cartesian Fellow-Traveller, or Revolutionary?"
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Symposium on Descartes and Hume, University of Manchester (December)
  • Colour slides from the above
  • Greyscale slides from the above
     
  • "Hume, Miracles, and Probabilities: Meeting Earman's Challenge"
    Hume Conference, University of Las Vegas (July-August)
  • Slides from the above
  
   
• 2002
  • Reading Hume on Human Understanding (Oxford University Press)
     
  • "Introduction" to Reading Hume on Human Understanding
     
  • "The Context, Aims, and Structure of Hume's First Enquiry
     
  • "Hume's Sceptical Doubts Concerning Induction"
     
  • "Critical Survey of the Literature on Hume and the First Enquiry
  
   
• 2001
  • "The Logic of Hume's Sceptical Doubts"
    Hume Conference, University of Victoria, BC (July)
     
  • "Beauchamp's Student Editions of the Enquiries"
    Hume Conference, University of Victoria, BC (July)
  
   
• 2000
  • Critical Survey of the Literature on Hume and the First Enquiry
    First Web edition
     
  • Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
    Leeds Web edition
  
   
• 1999
  • Hume Conference, University of Cork (July)
  
   
• 1998
  • "Hume on Reason and Induction: Epistemology or Cognitive Science?"
    Hume Studies 24, pp. 141-59
     
  • "The Problem of the First Enquiry: Concluding the 1998 Stirling Conference"
    Hume Conference, University of Stirling (July)
  
   
• 1997
  • "Induction"
    Encyclopaedia of Empiricism, eds. Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell, Greenwood Press, pp. 180-8
     
  • "Knowledge"
    Encyclopaedia of Empiricism, eds. Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell, Greenwood Press, pp. 202-5
     
  • "Logic"
    Encyclopaedia of Empiricism, eds. Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell, Greenwood Press, pp. 215-7
     
  • "Garrett on Reason and Induction"
    Hume Conference, University of Monterey (July-August)
  
   
• 1996
  • Hume, Induction, and Probability
    PhD thesis, University of Leeds, pp. 294 + xv (unlike previous versions, this has been carefully prepared to ensure that the pagination corresponds almost exactly with the original, enabling the final indexes to be used)
     
  • Comments on Graciela De Pierris, "Causality as a Philosophical Relation in Hume"
    Hume Conference, University of Nottingham (July)
  
   
• 1995
  • "Hume's Argument concerning Induction: Structure and Interpretation"
    in S. Tweyman (ed) David Hume: Critical Assessments, Routledge, vol. II, pp. 91-144, and reprinted in David W. D. Owen (ed) Hume: General Philosophy (2000), Routledge, vol. 2 pp. 165-218 (marginal page numbers have been added, to facilitate handling of references to the original)
     
  • "Hume, Induction and Reason"
    Hume Conference, University of Utah (July)
  
   
• 1993
  • "'Hume's Theorem' concerning Miracles"
    Philosophical Quarterly 43, pp. 489-95
  
   
• 1992
  • (paper on induction)
    Hume Conference, University of Nantes
  
   
• 1989
  
  • (paper on induction)
    Hume Conference, Lancaster University (August)
  
   
• 1986
  • "Natural Necessity and Induction", in Philosophy
  
   
• 1982
  • "Mackie's Defence of Induction", in Analysis