Lorne Falkenstein
Professor
Eighteenth Century Philosophy
BA University of Regina; MA, Ph.D. Toronto
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85774
Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 3141
E-mail: lfalkens@uwo.ca
Website: publish.uwo.ca/~lfalkens
My research interests are in early modern philosophy with an emphasis on 18th-century British philosophy and on issues of spatial perception and mental representation throughout the history of philosophy. I have been developing an interest in the history of the free will debate culminating in Reid and Priestley, and in Hume and Reid on justice and moral motivation.
I am happy to supervise any topic related to the above statement of research interests.
Recent Publications
"Dualism and the Experimentum Crucis.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (2016): 212-217
"Reid’s Account of the Geometry of Visibles: Some Lessons from Helmholtz,” Topoi 35 (2016): 485-510
"Hume on the Idea of a Vacuum,” Hume Studies 39 (2013): 131-168. (Appeared in Spring of 2015)
“Reid’s response to Hume’s perceptual relativity argument,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 Supplement 1: New Essays on Reid (2014): 25-49.
Berkeley on Situation and Inversion” in Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith (ed) The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux: Essays in
