Current Position
Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, 2001–present
Previous Positions
Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary, 1991–2002
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary, 1990–91
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowdoin College, 1990–91
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bowdoin College, 1984–1989
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 1983–84
Area of Specialization
Hume, Kant, 17th & 18th-century Philosophy; History of Philosophy
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. , The Pennsylvania State University, 1983
M. A., Northern Illinois University, 1978
B. A., Northern Illinois University, 1976
Representative Publications
“Baconian Probability and Hume’s Theory of Testimony,” Hume Studies 27 (2001):191–222.
“Hume’s Dialectic,” in David Hume: Critical Assessments, ed., Stanley Tweyman (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 248–258, a revised version of “Hume’s Dialectic,” in Hume Studies 10 (1984): 139–155.
“Hume’s Internalism,” Hume Studies 18 (1992): 331–348.
“Partiality in Hume’s Ethics,” Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (1992): 95–104.
“Interpreting Hume’s Dialogues,” Religious Studies 25 (1989): 179–190.
“Hume, Miracles and Lotteries,” Hume Studies 14 (1988): 328–346.
“Hume’s Alleged Pyrrhonism,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (1988): 461–468.
"Is Mathematics for Hume Synthetic A Priori?", Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (1979): 113-125.
Offices in Professional Societies
Organizer, Hume Society Group Meeting, Central APA, 2002–05
Co-Director, 27th Hume Society Conference, July, 2000
President, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1998–99
President, Virgina Philosophical Association, 1996–97
Executive Secretary, Hume Society, 1987–1993
President, Maine Philosophical Institute, 1986–87
 Philosophical Links
 NIU Department of Philosophy
 Northern Illinois University Home Page
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