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Lorne Falkenstein
BA Regina; MA, PhD Toronto

  • Professor
  • 18th Century Philosophy

Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85774
Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 3141
E-mail: lfalkens@uwo.ca
Website: Personal

2012-2013 Teaching

  • PHIL 2202G - Early Modern Philosophy
  • PHIL 4990A - Modal Logic

Selected Publications

  • David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, (ed) Lorne Falkenstein (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2011).
  • Lorne Falkenstein, "The psychology and epistemology of Hume's account of probable reasoning," in (ed) Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien, The Continuum Companion to Hume (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012), 104-130.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, “Space and Time,” in Saul Traiger, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006), 59-76.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, “Condillac’s Paradox,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (2005): 403-435. Refereed.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, “Reid and Smith on Vision.” The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 2 (2004): 103-118.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, "Nativism and the Nature of Thought in Reid's Account of our Knowledge of the External World," in Terence Cuneo and René Van Woudenberg, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 156-179.
  • Lorne Falkenstein and Giovanni Grandi, "The Role of Material Impressions In Reid’s Theory of Vision," The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 1 (2003): 117-133.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, "Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac, art., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • Lorne Falkenstein, "Hume’s Project in the Natural History of Religion," Religious Studies 39 (2003): 1-21.

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